How Organized Are Your Movies? - Screenshots!

billabong · 09:16 PM

How organized are your movies in iTunes? Are they all tagged w/ artwork? Just thrown in? Do you even care? I know before AppleTV I didn't care that much, but now I like to have everything tagged right... Here is one of my screen shots... Now post yours....

jensepollense · Nov 9, 2007, 03:45 PM

How can you add text to the description column? Or where all those movies bought so they already had it in there?

Thanks

CarlsonCustoms · Nov 9, 2007, 03:51 PM

Before my appletv I didnt have movie artwork but since I bought the appletv I did go out and find all the artwork. Only problem is I haven't watched a movie on my atv yet. I seem to use it mostly for podcasts!

billabong · Nov 9, 2007, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jensepollense

How can you add text to the description column? Or where all those movies bought so they already had it in there?

Thanks

Well iTunes doesn't sell HD stuff so no they weren't bought through iTunes... You can tag all your content with a tagging program. I use MetaX it's the best, gets you rating, synopsis, artwork, and more... Highly recommended...

peeaanuut · Nov 9, 2007, 04:29 PM

I do not have many movies on my aTV or even in iTunes. However I have all of my TV shows in there and they are spot on organized with episode IDs, individual show titles and artwork. The same is with my music. Im sure if I start to use it for movies they will be the same, but I think I have a total of 5 actual movies with a few small clips.

slu · Nov 9, 2007, 04:39 PM

Can you share what you mean by HD? I am confused because if you ripped from DVD the source content was not in HD, so did you "upconvert" or something? If so, do you see an improvement of the picture quality? Admittedly, I don't know much about ripping DVDs for use with the AppleTV since I don't have one (but I want one), and I only rip for the iPod with the Handbrake iPod preset.

billabong · Nov 9, 2007, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by slu

Can you share what you mean by HD? I am confused because if you ripped from DVD the source content was not in HD, so did you "upconvert" or something? If so, do you see an improvement of the picture quality? Admittedly, I don't know much about ripping DVDs for use with the AppleTV since I don't have one (but I want one), and I only rip for the iPod with the Handbrake iPod preset.

These aren't from DVD rips they are 720P HD from a Bluray or HD-DVD rip converted to AppleTV format with Visual Hub... The quality is amazing, better than HD channels on TV...

Mac OS X Ocelot · Nov 9, 2007, 04:43 PM

I'd say very organized.

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CarlsonCustoms · Nov 9, 2007, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by billabong

These aren't from DVD rips they are 720P HD from a Bluray or HD-DVD rip converted to AppleTV format with Visual Hub... The quality is amazing, better than HD channels on TV...

Whoa. didnt' even notice all the HD movies you have. I have a Xbox HDdvd drive which I love EXCEPT for the noise. So how are you ripping the hddvd's with a mac?

billabong · Nov 9, 2007, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Mac OS X Ocelot

I'd say very organized.

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haha nice.

billabong · Nov 9, 2007, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by CarlsonCustoms

Whoa. didnt' even notice all the HD movies you have. I have a Xbox HDdvd drive which I love EXCEPT for the noise. So how are you ripping the hddvd's with a mac?

I have the HD DVD for the XBOX360 too and love it, it's not too load. The quality from a disc will always be better than content on the appleTV unless they up it to 1080p and better sound. But there HD movies still look amazing, it's my way of getting through the format war. I buy HD DVD movies, but I don't support bluray.

As for ripping... I'm not, I get them from various sources..

CarlsonCustoms · Nov 9, 2007, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by billabong

As for ripping... I'm not, I get them from various sources..

Howsa bout pm'ing me those "sources" so you can share the appletv love? I thought about hooking up my xbox drive to my vista pc and find someway to rip it and then transfer it to my mac but that seems like alot of work when you can just pop the disc in, i just hate all the fan noise.

peeaanuut · Nov 9, 2007, 05:59 PM

out of curiosity. How large would say a 2 hour hd movie take up in aTV friendly format?

je1ani · Nov 9, 2007, 06:00 PM

At least 5GB... I have DVD Rips around 2GBs!

nlivo · Nov 9, 2007, 06:22 PM

mine's pretty similar to yours. I'm a nut when it comes to organization on my computer.

billabong · Nov 9, 2007, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by peeaanuut

out of curiosity. How large would say a 2 hour hd movie take up in aTV friendly format?

They can vary but average about 3.75-4GB per movie (3750-3900kbps). Some are really low 1.5-2gb(1900-2500kbps) but it depends on the bitrate of the original file. If you want to be able to tag them it must be no larger than 4GB...

billabong · Nov 9, 2007, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by nlivo

mine's pretty similar to yours. I'm a nut when it comes to organization on my computer.

Nice...

What do you use for tagging?

CarlsonCustoms · Nov 9, 2007, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by nlivo

mine's pretty similar to yours. I'm a nut when it comes to organization on my computer.

May I ask what's in your playlist "old people dancing" ? LOL

je1ani · 08:50 PM

Where do you get your box art from? and how do you fill in the Description? I am using regular iTunes not AppleTV

peeaanuut · Nov 9, 2007, 11:29 PM

I just got the script from here:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/script...howdescription
It works quite well. A small script and you can type away to your hearts content.

magicmoof · Nov 10, 2007, 01:09 AM

Just curious how long these take to encode and what hardware you have.

tronic72 · Nov 10, 2007, 09:47 AM

Good idea for a post. Until I saw the post all my movies has the first frame of the movie as the thumbnail. I just spent the last few hours updating my "dvd jackets"

billabong · Nov 11, 2007, 03:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by je1ani

Where do you get your box art from? and how do you fill in the Description? I am using regular iTunes not AppleTV

MetaX (it's mac only)

It is the best tagger ever... http://www.kerstetter.net/page53/page54/page54.html

nlivo · Nov 11, 2007, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by billabong

Nice...

What do you use for tagging?

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.

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Originally Posted by CarlsonCustoms

May I ask what's in your playlist "old people dancing" ? LOL

haha, that was for my parents. They needed some music for a party. I thought the name suited quite nicely.

billabong · Nov 11, 2007, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by tronic72

Good idea for a post. Until I saw the post all my movies has the first frame of the movie as the thumbnail. I just spent the last few hours updating my "dvd jackets"

Quote:

Originally Posted by nlivo

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.

haha, that was for my parents. They needed some music for a party. I thought the name suited quite nicely.

Weird, I haven't had any issues with MetaX...

Nov 9, 2007, 03:13 PM	#1
billabong macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jan 2004	How Organized Are Your Movies? - Screenshots! How organized are your movies in iTunes? Are they all tagged w/ artwork? Just thrown in? Do you even care? I know before AppleTV I didn't care that much, but now I like to have everything tagged right... Here is one of my screen shots... Now post yours.... Last edited by billabong; Mar 11, 2008 at 09:16 PM.
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Nov 9, 2007, 04:39 PM	#6
slu macrumors 65816 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Buffalo	Can you share what you mean by HD? I am confused because if you ripped from DVD the source content was not in HD, so did you "upconvert" or something? If so, do you see an improvement of the picture quality? Admittedly, I don't know much about ripping DVDs for use with the AppleTV since I don't have one (but I want one), and I only rip for the iPod with the Handbrake iPod preset. __________________ Macbook 2.4 C2D / Nexus 4 / iPod classic 160 GB / iPad 2 / AppleTV2&3
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Nov 9, 2007, 04:43 PM	#8
Mac OS X Ocelot macrumors 6502a Join Date: Sep 2005	I'd say very organized.
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Nov 9, 2007, 06:22 PM	#15
nlivo macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ballarat, Australia	mine's pretty similar to yours. I'm a nut when it comes to organization on my computer. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Steve Jobs took 6 months off to toke
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Nov 9, 2007, 08:33 PM	#19
je1ani Banned Join Date: Sep 2007	Where do you get your box art from? and how do you fill in the Description? I am using regular iTunes not AppleTV Last edited by je1ani; Nov 9, 2007 at 08:50 PM.
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Nov 9, 2007, 03:45 PM	#2
jensepollense macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Virginia Tech/Blacksburg, VA	How can you add text to the description column? Or where all those movies bought so they already had it in there? Thanks
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Nov 9, 2007, 03:51 PM	#3
CarlsonCustoms macrumors 6502 Join Date: Mar 2007	Before my appletv I didnt have movie artwork but since I bought the appletv I did go out and find all the artwork. Only problem is I haven't watched a movie on my atv yet. I seem to use it mostly for podcasts!
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Nov 9, 2007, 04:29 PM	#5
peeaanuut Banned Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Southern California	I do not have many movies on my aTV or even in iTunes. However I have all of my TV shows in there and they are spot on organized with episode IDs, individual show titles and artwork. The same is with my music. Im sure if I start to use it for movies they will be the same, but I think I have a total of 5 actual movies with a few small clips.
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Nov 9, 2007, 05:59 PM	#13
peeaanuut Banned Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Southern California	out of curiosity. How large would say a 2 hour hd movie take up in aTV friendly format?
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Nov 9, 2007, 06:00 PM	#14
je1ani Banned Join Date: Sep 2007	At least 5GB... I have DVD Rips around 2GBs!
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Nov 9, 2007, 11:29 PM	#20
peeaanuut Banned Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Southern California	I just got the script from here: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/script...howdescription It works quite well. A small script and you can type away to your hearts content.
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Nov 10, 2007, 01:09 AM	#21
magicmoof macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2007	Which Mac, Encoding times? Just curious how long these take to encode and what hardware you have.
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Nov 10, 2007, 09:47 AM	#22
tronic72 macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2007	Good post! Good idea for a post. Until I saw the post all my movies has the first frame of the movie as the thumbnail. I just spent the last few hours updating my "dvd jackets"
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