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How Organized Are Your Movies? - Screenshots!
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Managed to get my first new dvd case done today, your right it does take awhile, especially as i havent used photoshop in such a long time. Ive noticed that you have further modified the original transparent case, by making the plastic covers greySad face because it took an absolute age to do it!
It's a Photoshop case and I slip the dvd covers into the document and output with .png. Needless to say I scanned them all in myself [from my collection] - wasn't happy enough with the workload so thought I'd give myself more...
As much as I'd love to, I can't take credit for the document. I was looking around for a tutorial on how to make one and managed to find one already made.
It's located here on Deviantart by `manicho
Reason I did it was because I was getting annoyed with the faded/damaged edges that dvd cover slips seem to have. It's always visible against the background.
Enjoy.
Thanks again, I also find because the smaller size of the case, a lot of my much lower resolution artwork wont look so bad anymore against the hi res ones.
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Could you explain the process, programs, filesizes, methods?
Working in a mac environment. In general I use Visualhub to convert all of my MKVs - most of them are 1080p to Apple TV format. If they contain DTS audio(Visualhub wont convert DTS to AC3) then I use a windows program called Audio Converter ( I use a program called crossover on my mac so that I can run Audio converter in OSX) to convert the DTS to AC3. Audio converter will take a MKV file and unpackage it, convert the DTS audio track to AC3 and then repackage it into a MKV again. I then just take the new MKV file and run it through Visualhub. This is how I get all the files to have 5.1 audio. Then the only settings I mess with in Visualhub is I force the bitrate to be around 6000. I've made some files with bitrates of around 6600 and they play just fine as well. File sizes vary. Some like King Kong, and Pearl Harbor can be like 7 or 8 GB. Most are around 5 or 6 GB.
Thanks, I didn't think Apple TV accepted more than 4 gig/video. Do you use the .mov-container? I'm having trouble with it together with MetaX.
4 GB is a file size limitation on 32 bit mp4 files. Has nothing to do with the ATV.
The ATV will happily play and stream a 64 bit mp4 file which can be larger than 4 GB. Afaik VH's AC3 DD solution is in fact a .mov file.
VH does in fact use the .mov file format when outputting Apple TV 5.1 +2.0 format. However, I know a lot of people get upset b/c the .mov format does not support all the tagging features. Well I figured out that if you first just use VH's output setting for Apple TV 2.0 you get a mp4 file. If you tag that file (mp4 will accept just about all tag features) and then you open it up in quicktime (after tagging) and paste in the AC3 track on it and save it as a .mov file, you can retain all the tags that you had w/ the original mp4 in a .mov.
which part? How to get .mov files to have the complete tags of an mp4/m4v file or my whole MKV to Apple TV conversion guide?
How you got the .Mov to have all the tags as I just get crapped up video files.
Also if someone could tell me how to do that DVD Box art thing as I think I screwed up as the art doesn't fit in the box.
I simply convert my film initially as a mp4 or m4v - using visualhub (i'm sure this would work w/ files from handbrake as well ). Then I tag it using metax. Then I open it up in QT.
I then add the AC3 track to it (using the "add to movie" option). - Sidenote: as I initially posted earlier, I convert my DTS MKV audio tracks to AC3. I get access to this AC3 track by using a program called iMKVextract. I open this AC3 track up in QT and copy the track - and I then "add to movie" the track to my MP4 video.
Then I save the combined video/audio as a .mov - just choose "save as"
Yes this is a pain, but it's the price you pay for perfection... or just being really picky
For organizing your movie collections, has anyone come across software where you can filter movies by actor or director. For instance, if I could have a list of Actors for all my movies, and can click one name to see all the movies they did.
In iTunes, I could use the "Artist" field in Browse mode, but this doesn't allow for multiple actors and actresses in the same film. For instance, "Brad Pitt, Edward Norton" would be a separate artist from "Brad Pitt, Matt Damon"
Anyone come across a solution? I'm open to using a separate program for this, but DVDpedia and Delicious Library can't filter by metadata at all. I'd like a way to do this without creating a enormous list of smart folders.
If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it.
In iTunes, I could use the "Artist" field in Browse mode, but this doesn't allow for multiple actors and actresses in the same film. For instance, "Brad Pitt, Edward Norton" would be a separate artist from "Brad Pitt, Matt Damon"
Anyone come across a solution? I'm open to using a separate program for this, but DVDpedia and Delicious Library can't filter by metadata at all. I'd like a way to do this without creating a enormous list of smart folders.
If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it.
Are you streaming them?
The few times I've messed around with converting HD MKV's to appleTV format - it looked great but stuttered every now and then. I never did track down what was causing them to stutter. My guess was streaming but I just gave up all together.
Have you had any stutter issues? If so - how did you solve it?
If you use metax to tag your movies, you can always create a smart playlist for movies where you search by Actor by the Artist field, (MetaX writes actors names in the Artist field) - BUT as you already mentioned, you would unfortuantely need to make one smart playlist for each actor.
Just make a smart playlist under a folder called "Actors" and minimise it when not in use. You can also search for 2 actors - just use the plus (+) sign for your search criteria.
I do stream them over a wireless N router. I haven't had any problems as my tv and router are fairly close to each other (not close enough to easily run ethernet however). That said, I do have a friend who was trying to stream one of the higher bit rate files and he said he encountered a bit of jumpiness, so he just synced the file and that all went away. The minority of my films are HD so it's not a problem to just sync one that I want to watch, or a few if I know I'm going to want to watch them over the next few days.
I stream and have occasional stutters, but I get the same problem when the videos are synced sometimes as well. Not sure what causes it. Mine is over wireless N as well, but the apple TV is directly connected to the router, but the computer is wireless and the videos are on an Airport drive. That's most likely the cause. Network lag perhaps? *shrug*
AC3 and AAC
Sounds excellent to me. I tried it, but its not working.
1. I convert in VH using AppleTV preset (stereo AAC)
2. Open mkv in QT and extract AC3
3. Paste AC3 in the mp4-file
With DolbyDigital on the ATV, I get no sound at all, or only stereo. If I turn off DD, the files with no sound will play stereo-sound. On the computer it plays fine, both with QT and iTunes .
Any hint to why its not working? I must be doing something wrong.
Mediainfo tells me that the file contains both AC3 and LC-AAC.
Sounds excellent to me. I tried it, but its not working.
1. I convert in VH using AppleTV preset (stereo AAC)
2. Open mkv in QT and extract AC3
3. Paste AC3 in the mp4-file
With DolbyDigital on the ATV, I get no sound at all, or only stereo. If I turn off DD, the files with no sound will play stereo-sound. On the computer it plays fine, both with QT and iTunes .
Any hint to why its not working? I must be doing something wrong.
Mediainfo tells me that the file contains both AC3 and LC-AAC.
Finally Some More Pictures To This Thread
Love how I have my TV shows and Movies set up visually but I don't really like cover flow for my music because it is too slow on my MBA so lately I have just been using the list view with a browser - simple and effective I guess.
Alright, well here goes:
Love how I have my TV shows and Movies set up visually but I don't really like cover flow for my music because it is too slow on my MBA so lately I have just been using the list view with a browser - simple and effective I guess.
Alright, well here goes:
I never knew you could make album art that large by dragging it larger, until I saw yours. I like that look.Love how I have my TV shows and Movies set up visually but I don't really like cover flow for my music because it is too slow on my MBA so lately I have just been using the list view with a browser - simple and effective I guess.
Alright, well here goes:
OK, can anybode please tell me how to use this? I got Photoshop CS, I got the template, I got some hirez artwork,but can anybode give me some good tutorial how to use this and make it a solid image-file to use as a cover?
/Niklas, Sweden
/Niklas, Sweden
Sad face because it took an absolute age to do it!
It's a Photoshop case and I slip the dvd covers into the document and output with .png. Needless to say I scanned them all in myself [from my collection] - wasn't happy enough with the workload so thought I'd give myself more...
As much as I'd love to, I can't take credit for the document. I was looking around for a tutorial on how to make one and managed to find one already made.
It's located here on Deviantart by `manicho
Reason I did it was because I was getting annoyed with the faded/damaged edges that dvd cover slips seem to have. It's always visible against the background.
Enjoy.
How are you guys obtaining HD Content, are you using software to upscale? or is it just purchased movies from iTunes, I am using handbrake and dvd0 to encode into the 
TV preset
TV preset