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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Mr ChriZ on June 14, 2008, 02:52:37 pm
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I'm creating a new root level view in my library as can be seen in the screenshot.
http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/4/6/14/f_Filmsm_130eb5f.png
I've pointed it to show only media in my Films directory.
How do I stop it showing multiples like it's showing here.
Also there I've found a (https://www.freshlogicstudios.com/Products/Bugs/Images/Bugs.png). While on this view, if I right click on the video view and select
Edit View, it actually edits the 'Films' View.
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Some progress
http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/4/6/15/f_Films2m_f24d11e.png
Screenshot shows filters...
I've also changed the first view item to be Name.
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I'm still not getting this work properly.
How does everyone else have their film views setup?
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Hmm...
So does no one else actually use MC to catalog films?
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I use the genre tag to defferentiate type of video (TV, Movie, High Def Movie,High Def TV, Music Video, etc...). I use a custom tag "Quality" to indicate well.... quality (DVD rip, TV rip, Download, codecs and so on), i Use a cusotm field of ContentGenre that is a list to group by ... well... genre of the video, allowing me to select multiples for each film (Action, scifi, horror, etc..... ) and i have a customer field called viewed that I have set as "Yes or No" that allows me to list what i hvent seen yet, Between those i can pretty much look at a view of whatever sorted group want, Make smamging a huge group of files pretty Straightforward.
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Hmm...
So does no one else actually use MC to catalog films?
Of course! BUT unfortunately I lack the hard drive space to store DVD files locally, so most of mine are single file rips, which means I don't get the "multiple entries" problem you mentioned. Although I do recall at times in the past, I did notice duplicate entries when importing ripped DVD files... this must still be an issue :(
As far as how to create your view goes, it really all depends on what you want to show :) I have a dedicated [Movie] field and other custom fields for Genres, Themes, Tones, Synopsis, Review etc. These were mostly pulled from AMG. Here's a screenshot of my setup if it's of any interest to you: http://www.pix01.com/gallery/7E547B99-5004-478D-A4AC-37AD672F51A4/Film_Setup/bigpage.html?image=810419560_orig0.jpg (http://www.pix01.com/gallery/7E547B99-5004-478D-A4AC-37AD672F51A4/Film_Setup/bigpage.html?image=810419560_orig0.jpg)
I have some other views for specific things like actors/directors, themes etc, but I'm still in the process of figuring out how I'm going to view my movies as well :) So it's a work in progress!
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Thanks for the replies, may have more questions soon!
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I was wondering if you could use the "stack" command to group the files together?
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For what its worth, I've created a new field (Subgenre) to store Action/ Comedy etc. in, so my root view drills down like this:
Subgenre (I use Genre for the base level filtering)==> Artist (This basically stores the series/ continuity etc. & sometimes things like the animation studio)==> Series (Final grouping, not always used; depends on the nature of the files)
I'd personally consider using a container format for all your rips, although this depends on how important the menus and extras are to you.
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