12/24/2022 0 Comments Adding collections to movie collector![]() What is the point of having a collection of 10,000 movies if you don't have a way to find some of them? It would be as if the titles didn't exist in your collection. EVERY DATA (datum?) you enter that you have no way of search for, it is WASTED time and effort on your part. Some of these programs have "misc user info" fields for you the enter extra info, but good luck with that, since they don't help you with your searches. So you can't look up movies by Ray Harryhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Edith Head, etc.? You can't even enter them manually yourself if you want to, because the programs don't have a place for them for you to enter. Important technicians like composers, visual effect artists, art directors, etc., are almost always not included. But if an actor appeared in a minor role long before he or she became famous, he or she wouldn't be included. ![]() Only the first few notable actors are included. Directors are always included, but often not writers and producers. (and I've tried them all), all have one flaw which I find fatal: they don't include enough people in the cast and crew. Most of the commercial collection software like All My Movies, Collectorz, Ant Movie Collection, Eric's Movie Database, My Movies Collection, etc. If you have the resources, I can recommend PastPerfect.ĭonald Binks wrote:"ALL MY MOVIES" works wonderfully for me. But then I needed to add cast and crew and be able to link titles and cast/crew back and forth (i.e. I used to use Excel to keep a list of all of titles in my collection. For instance, I can import IMDb cast and crew automatically with just one mouse click. But I can automate many of the tasks with Access programming. That leads to more data entry, of course. Anything I want to search for in the catalog, I put it in. My collection catalog contains far more info than DVD Profiler, such as Leonard Maltin and Pauline Kael reviews, and "disc credits," which are the people who do audio commentaries, video essays, etc., for disc supplements. I use Access to catalog my collection too, but I would still recommend average users to use DVD Profiler, the best of its kind. I use Microsoft Access, which I use to log all my things.ĭatabase programs like Access are far more complicated, so it's not practical for average users. You already lost one online-only inventory, and are dreading inputting everything again. Nick_M wrote:You should seriously consider using database software, or software that you control, instead of starting an inventory on another online-only platform. One thing that always annoyed me about DVD Profiler was when you removed a title from your collection, the next DVD you entered would be be slotted into that former title's collection #, which would be a pain when you're attempting to find something according to where it would be filed on the shelves. I'm well into recataloguing my blu-rays with the app, and I'm fairly pleased with it up to this point, so I may keep Invelos' DVD Profile for my DVD collection for the time being as I'm not really adding much to it at the moment, and continue with for the BDs. Thanks for the heads up! At least I can finally synch what's catalogued so far on my phone with my PC, which I couldn't do while their system was down. I followed their link to Invelos and it worked. ![]() Members on the Home Theater Forum were reporting this morning that they couldn't reach the site, but now say it's back up. wrote:Just learned this morning that the app/software DVD Profiler from, and its online database, are kaput, while I was trying to input my most recent acquisitions. 100 Film Collection on Amazon now for $90.S.w.a.c.
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