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How Organized Are Your Movies? - Screenshots!
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Kardashian - You have to tell how you customized your desktop
please, please, please
IDK why my desktops are proving so popular, LOL.
Its just a wallpaper.
A theme (Download and install Magnifque and choose your theme from there)
I've changed the system icons (Most of mine are NFR but Google is your friend)
I've changed the system font (Silk.app, $20, and the font is $500)
That's is.
The Films folder is just Photoshop covers I've made.
because they are 'different' silly - they look amazing imo. dont be surprised if apple doesnt include that kind of thing in SL
copyright it now!I have all my videos nicely organised with all the metadata and cover art filled in. I use VideoDrive for this. It put all my videos in iTunes without reconversions and I can stream them to my AppleTV (with codecs installed). I am very impressed by the tool and surprised not more people are using it. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27326/videodrive
Just starting to get organized with meta-data tags in a large number of home movies and movies I own.
I've stopped transcoding a lot of my home movies/recordings for now however, as I've been just about driven insane with Handbrake 0.9.1 on Tiger dropping audio for 3-4 seconds at the beginning of chapters. Mostly it only happens with iPod encoding (appleTV encoding works fine) - but that's pretty important to me! I understand a lot of these issues are fixed in 0.9.3 on Leopard, but I won't jump to Leopard until Snow Leopard is released. So for now my iTunes music library is being placed on hold.
Haven't been using "key frames" for coverflow or anything - but I've been thinking about it.
BTW - How are people dealing with TV series in iTunes? I hate the way I can't collapse them under a single heading. I havent' spent a lot of time on it, but I also can't seem to get them to sort using disk x of x, or track x of x settings. I encode episodes broadcast over the TV, and they just seem to clutter my library - I have to go in name them so they sort properly.
I've stopped transcoding a lot of my home movies/recordings for now however, as I've been just about driven insane with Handbrake 0.9.1 on Tiger dropping audio for 3-4 seconds at the beginning of chapters. Mostly it only happens with iPod encoding (appleTV encoding works fine) - but that's pretty important to me! I understand a lot of these issues are fixed in 0.9.3 on Leopard, but I won't jump to Leopard until Snow Leopard is released. So for now my iTunes music library is being placed on hold.
Haven't been using "key frames" for coverflow or anything - but I've been thinking about it.
BTW - How are people dealing with TV series in iTunes? I hate the way I can't collapse them under a single heading. I havent' spent a lot of time on it, but I also can't seem to get them to sort using disk x of x, or track x of x settings. I encode episodes broadcast over the TV, and they just seem to clutter my library - I have to go in name them so they sort properly.
While this may be my only option, I want to verify it before I start the mass port from Windows to Mac. All my movies (400+) are .avi. I did a test using movie2iTunes to make the container file and then MetaX to get the information/cover art. MetaX doesn't like the container files and crashes upon writing them.
I tried VideoDrive (trial) and it put the movie into iTunes and got the cover art for it/meta data.
After reading this entire thread the other option seems to be reencoding them, then using MetaX to tag and put them into iTunes.
Are these my only two solutions to get all my .avi's into iTunes?
Yes, basically you either:
1) reconvert videos to H.264 format (the native iTunes format) and then drag and drop them in iTunes.
2) use VideoDrive to add them without reconverting. I have used this for all my videos and have yet to find a disadvantage. If I later decide to sync a video to my iPhone, I can still convert them right in iTunes (just go to the iTunes Advanced menu and click 'create iPhone version').
It depends a bit on what you want to do: if you want to sync all your videos immediately to iPod/iPhone/AppleTV you might as well convert them first. Otherwise, I like the VideoDrive solution. By the way, VideoDrive does both and claims to produce smaller files than iTunes conversion. I never checked if the file sizes are much different.
Hope this helps.
To get my AVIs into iTunes, I open them in MPEG Streamclip and "save as" them into a new container (MOV). It's worked great so far!
I don't use MetaX. I just use iTunes to add DVD covers to movies. I don't think it actually adds the image to the movie file meta-data like MetaX, but it shows up in iTunes!
See:
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e277/bikerx007/ec63ca06.png
sorry if this has been brought up before. I tried using the search function without much success. But i just recently ripped my "Lord of the Rings" Extended Edition DVD using Handbrake. In Visual Hub i strung the two discs together into one very large file. it's a 7.19GB file size. It imports into iTunes fine, but i cannot add album artwork to it. Do i have to take this file into MetaX to add artwork? is there a file limitation that iTunes won't allow you to add art?
You may want to consider using handbrake to re do these movie encodes. Using the universal or apple TV preset you will get all three movies under 4GB, which is a magic number that makes things like tagging, and working with iTunes much simpler. Additionally, HB will give superior results to VH, just my $0.02
I am sure somebody on the boards may be able to help but I would strongly urge you to learn and use HB, it is a powerful tool in the
TV arsenal!
How easy/hard is this to do? I have considered doing this myself but i haven't been able to find any real definitive answer on how easy this is to do, how well it works and wether you can still back up to the drive.
If anyone can help me out on this it would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Rowan.
You may want to consider using handbrake to re do these movie encodes. Using the universal or apple TV preset you will get all three movies under 4GB, which is a magic number that makes things like tagging, and working with iTunes much simpler. Additionally, HB will give superior results to VH, just my $0.02
I am sure somebody on the boards may be able to help but I would strongly urge you to learn and use HB, it is a powerful tool in the
I used handbrake to rip the DVD's... they are two discs however. So i merged those two .mp4 files into one using visual hub
I hate asking this because it may have been mentioned before considering how big this thread has gotten, but how do you guys go about getting HD content into your iTunes libraries? Do you use Blu-Ray rips or a certain pre-set on handbrake or what? I did do a search and it sent me to this thread mainly. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Alright well thanks for the help, I just was able to burn a Blu-Ray movie to my computer I just haven't imported into my iTunes yet! Anyways here's what I have so far for my movie list. It's not that many but I just started and have a huge list of other movies to handbrake:
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