How Organized Are Your Movies? - Screenshots!

DarkHeraldMage · Jan 24, 2008

annaj said:
the black background is automatic when you are in the album view mode. It's the middle button, or you can change modes by using the view menu in the toolbar.

I've always wished this kind of view was an option outside of just the movies section. To be able to view CD album covers in this way under music or even TV shows grouped together until you choose to expand them. My biggest complaint is the lack of ability to truly customize how videos are grouped and viewed. You have 3 choices - movie, tv show, or music video. I have quite a few that are none of the above, but I just classify as movie since they're videos.

For instance, I have every US and UK "get a mac" ad in hi def added to iTunes, as well as the Japanese ones (sadly not hi def at all). Categorized as movies, this really adds a lot of unneeded fluff to scroll through when looking for something. It's also a lot of white on that pretty black background. lol

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f(A)t'kId · Jan 24, 2008

Library getting larger

Should have about 700 DVD's by the end of the week. Breaking 1000 is going to take forever

I use http://www.impawards.com/ to get my artwork and http://www.imdb.com/ to get the rest of the info.

zigmund555 · Jan 24, 2008

Wow.

How many terabyte drives have you got for all those DVDs?

edit: Speaking of which, what are people using for external libraries? I'm just starting to rip my collection, which is around 60 movies. My iMac has the 350 gig drive so I'll likely be moving everything to external storage.

NightStorm · Jan 24, 2008

I recently purchased a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ and 4 500GB hard drives (1.4TB usable space). My iTunes library lives on it, and I haven't had any problems with the setup yet.

MikieMikie · Jan 24, 2008

zigmund555 said:
Wow.

How many terabyte drives have you got for all those DVDs?

edit: Speaking of which, what are people using for external libraries? I'm just starting to rip my collection, which is around 60 movies. My iMac has the 350 gig drive so I'll likely be moving everything to external storage.

I'm an old Seagate fan, so I have been sticking with FreeAgent Desktop 500 GB externals.

northy124 · Jan 24, 2008

f(A)t'kId said:
Should have about 700 DVD's by the end of the week. Breaking 1000 is going to take forever I use http://www.impawards.com/ to get my artwork and http://www.imdb.com/ to get the rest of the info.

700 Man you have alot LoL.

I'm currently converting mine right now will have a screen shot in 10 mins not big but getting there.

Fazzl · Jan 24, 2008

for tv shows, how do you add the descriptions and everything

f(A)t'kId · Jan 24, 2008

zigmund555 said:
Wow.

How many terabyte drives have you got for all those DVDs?

edit: Speaking of which, what are people using for external libraries? I'm just starting to rip my collection, which is around 60 movies. My iMac has the 350 gig drive so I'll likely be moving everything to external storage.

For my library I started off with a Western Digital 500 gig then that filled up so I bought another one. The 2nd WD 500 filled up so I bought a 1TB WD drive (from costco... price was right) and transferred all the videos from the 2 500's to the 1TB. Then started using the 500 again for movies then with the release of Leopard I bought another 1TB drive for movies and use my 2 500 GB's for time machine and video projects. So to make a story that didn't need to be long short I have 2 TB for movies. I can fit about 450 +/- movies per TB.

MikieMikie · Jan 25, 2008

Fazzl said:
for tv shows, how do you add the descriptions and everything

MetaX

Nothing better than MetaX. And it's free.

Scarpad · Jan 25, 2008

I'm only doing movies encoded for the Ipod Touch. I figure it worth having a portable version onhand to watch, so the movies are between 700x800 mb big, Apple TV I only encode TV series as they have much more rewatchabilty than movies. I'd rather see a movie upconverted from DVD for max potential on my set

northy124 · Jan 25, 2008

Heres mine waiting for New External HDD got 200 more movies.

I rip them with MagicDVD on my mom's windows PC and convert to divx then transfer to Mac then open them in QuickTime Pro and Export/Save As .Mov then transfer to iTunes and presto my movie is there. I have some of the latest unreleased to DVD movie such as Rambo. If you want link to site PM me.

Northy124

Fazzl · Jan 25, 2008

Where do you guys put the info for studio like warner or universal etc. My movies just have:
Name
Cast
Genre
Time

northy124 · Jan 25, 2008

Right click the movie select get info then click info and enter info you want. I haven't worked out how to add a description though.

Northy124

Pic to what to look at

Fazzl · Jan 25, 2008

northy124 said:
Right click the movie select get info then click info and enter info you want. I haven't worked out how to add a description though.

Northy124

Pic to what to look at

i know how to edit that basic stuff but where do add the studio and description etc?

northy124 · Jan 25, 2008

If you looked you put studio name under Artist, Year under year. I can't figure out Descriptions though i tried comments but it didn't work. Also do you have a screen shot of what you have so far might help.

Northy124

northy124 · Jan 25, 2008

How do you put age ratings in iTunes for movies and tv shows.

NightStorm · Jan 25, 2008

northy124 said:
How do you put age ratings in iTunes for movies and tv shows.

MetaX will do all you want in terms of tagging if you're using a Mac...

northy124 · Jan 25, 2008

It's doesn't work with .Mov only .MP4 (Bloody stupid)

Pandaboots · Jan 25, 2008

Questions regarding the handbrake settings:

If I convert my dvds to :apple:

TV format, is there any reason I would want to do a second convert to iPhone/iPod? I've seen a few posts here that suggest I need to have 2 copies to work with each device. Is this just a size issue or an actual file type issue? Seems to me that :apple:

TV version would work on any device. Thanks

Project · Jan 25, 2008

imlucid said:
Sure,

If you hold down the option key while dragging in your movie, iTunes won't copy it internally but refer to the original location.

Kevin

How did I not know this!!!

Thank you!

ironjaw · Jan 25, 2008

For descriptions you can use a free apple script from Doug's Apple Script just search for it. It's pretty easy to use.

Pandaboots: If you go to the Technical Specifications section under the Apple TV and iPhone/iPod Touch you will see that the:

Apple TV supports bitrates up to 5000 kbps and maximum resolution 1280 by 720 pixels at 24 fps but the

iPhone only up to 1500 kbps and maximum resolution 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second and under MPEG-4 video, up to 2500 kbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second

This means if you use Hanbrake preset AppleTV you will not be able to play the movie in your iPhone as the bitrate is too high and the device cannot support the resolution, nonetheless if you use the iPhone/iPod preset you will be able to use it on both devices but it will probably (and I say probably as I have not tried it) look not that amazing on your TV

NightStorm · Jan 25, 2008

ironjaw said:
For descriptions you can use a free apple script from Doug's Apple Script just search for it. It's pretty easy to use.

Pandaboots: If you go to the Technical Specifications section under the Apple TV and iPhone/iPod Touch you will see that the:

Apple TV supports bitrates up to 5000 kbps and maximum resolution 1280 by 720 pixels at 24 fps but the

iPhone only up to 1500 kbps and maximum resolution 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second and under MPEG-4 video, up to 2500 kbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second

This means if you use Hanbrake preset AppleTV you will not be able to play the movie in your iPhone as the bitrate is too high and the device cannot support the resolution, nonetheless if you use the iPhone/iPod preset you will be able to use it on both devices but it will probably (and I say probably as I have not tried it) look not that amazing on your TV

The iPhone can support the same DVD resolutions as the AppleTV, it is the advanced x264 features that make the AppleTV preset incompatible with iPods/iPhones.

Pandaboots · Jan 25, 2008

ok..thanks to you both. I understand now...maybe the next iPhone/iPod touch will be in line with :apple:

TV.

williedigital · Jan 28, 2008

northy124 said:
700 Man you have alot LoL.

I'm currently converting mine right now will have a screen shot in 10 mins not big but getting there.

I have approx. 2,000. Consumes 2.1 tb of space. I'm moving to a NAS solution soon.

hagar · Feb 7, 2008

I organize all my videos in iTunes with a tool called iTunes Drive-In. It automatically downloads metadata (including descriptions) and covers from IMDB and Amazon. TV Shows get season and episode numbers. And: it gives the option to put videos entirely in your library, or keep them on separate drives.
Overall, it saves me a lot of time.

it's available here

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