I use iDentify to tag them and add artwork automatically. Works great.
Identify is great because you can just enter the movies imdb code and it automatically finds the data.
I use subler to add subtitles to all the movie and tv shows
I use iDentify to tag them and add artwork automatically. Works great.
anyone know if its possible to group tv shows together? as in, right now i have friends season 3 and 4, can i combine it so its just friends, and then when i click on friends see all the seasons within that part of itunes. it will get crowded when i add in all the season and more shows.
Does anyone know if there is a way to add Poster artwork to .mkv files, so when I am scrolling through my movies in Finder, I can see the posters for each movie.
Have you tried a metadata tag editor, like MetaX or Subler?
I don't use anything really. I get my posters from google and the description from a movie rental website and use doug's scripts to input them. I would use metax but everytime I try and tag a movie it just deletes it. I have lost about 5 movies through metax.
Does anyone know if there is a way to add Poster artwork to .mkv files, so when I am scrolling through my movies in Finder, I can see the posters for each movie.
Here is how you do that step-by-step.
Step 1: Starting off with an .mkv on my desktop for the example.
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Step 2: Go to Google image search, or wherever you get your poster artwork from, and right click on the image you want and select "Copy".
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Step 3: On your .mkv file, do a "Get Info" command and highlight the icon by clicking on the area shown.
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Step 4: Do a Command-V to paste the copied poster into the icon and voila, your .mkv file should now show the poster you want.
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Just a large icon view of the .mkv file in a Finder window showing the artwork.
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That's just a general way to associate pictures with files in Finder, right? If you ever move these movies somewhere else (not using Finder) then these artworks will never show up, I guess.
Matroska supports embedding of artworks, however, there is basically no program that reads this metadata from the mkv.
Apple's m4v seems to be the only format that allows convenient artwork and subtitle embedding, with support to view it and play it (in OS X at least).
Other common formats as mp4, still has no such widespread support, even if the container itself supports it. The recommended way is still to keep a subtitle as external file, and artwork in as external file, in the same folder as the mp4 is in. I thought there would be an accepted standard by now for movies with cross-wise OS support, but no... it's still a mess.
I'm about to start ripping my movie collection, but I had a question about hard-coded subtitles.
Let's say I'm watching a normal movie without subtitles, like the Godfather. And then a scene comes up where they speak italian, so the subtitles show translating to the dialog.
How can I make sure I'm not losing these subs?
Sorry guys, total dvd ripping newb here.