Hey guys. I've got the whole mp3 tagging thing down just right. I love it. I tag the following fields:
Artist
Album
Track
Name
Genre (I've got about 25 genres that I classify everything into; I am finding this to give me enough separation so I don't have 1000 artists in a "rock" genre, but not so detailed that I have dozens of genres with only one or two artists)
Year
(And then the intensity, bpm, etc. from the audio analyzer)
With all the tagging, I've seen the results of how pretty and efficient Theater View (and Media Center altogether) and smartlists can be.
Now I want to apply the same thing to my video collection. Thankfully it is very small (100 DVD Movies, 20 Seasons Worth Of TV Shows, and maybe 100 home videos that I've taken since I got a digital camera some number of years ago) when compared to my audio collection (nearly 10,000 albums). My question is pretty simple. What are the essential fields that I need to tag and how do I go on about tagging them. Here's what I was thinking
For DVDs:
Name (Name of movie)
Year (I'll use theatrical release)
Box art (all over the place)
Genre (Only a handful needed probably; I'd love to hear how many and what names people give their dvd genres. I can only think of about oh, 8 or so that I'd want to use).
Is there anything else that I am missing that is commonly tagged in video files? Director? Studio? Is there a way to automatically grab this information off a site like IMDB? Keep in mind that when I rip the DVD, I encode it into one h.261 .mp4 file like Adaptation.mp4 or The Departed.mp4 Nothing else seems to get tagged. Oh, what's with the crazy bitrate readings. I was expecting to see ~1400 since I rip my DVDs at about 1400kbps in h.261 encoding but instead I see things like 244 and even negative numbers. Bizarre.