Movie Collector Manual
for Windows edition
Welcome to Movie Collector Download and Install Navigating the Main Screen Adding your First Movie How to search your Collection Adding Movies Automatically Adding Movies Manually Barcode Scanning Adding Movie Files Field Defaults Search Settings Importing from text Managing your Wish List Adding a Box Set Importing from Windows/XML Editing Movies List Items and more Editing Multiple Movies Find Cover Image Adding Trailers, Links and Files Editing List Icons Loan Manager Update File Links Customizing Movie Collector Changing the layout Custom Field Names Sorting your Collection Using Folders Custom Views Edit, Merge List Items Activating Connect Sync & Share Synchronize with Connect Linking your movies for Connect CLZ Movies for iPhone/iPod CLZ Movies for Android CLZ Movies HD for iPad Using the Filter screen Collection Statistics Printing a Simple List Browsing your movies on Vista Media Center Print Screen Updating Movie Collector The Collectorz.com movie database Field Reference Data Submission Guidelines The Options Screen Keyboard Shortcuts Creating a Backup Validating Movie Collector Add/Edit Movie Screen
Customizing Movie Collector
Screen Font
Use Ctrl+PLUS and Ctrl+MINUS to increase and decrease the main screen font size or click View > Font Size.Go to: Tools > Options > Screen Font to choose a completely different font. Be careful not to choose Webdings or Windings (or a similar graphics font). It might look funny for a while, but it's pretty much useless. If it does happen (of course accidentally), click here to see how to change it back.
Screen Layout
How about changing the way your main screen looks and flows?That's easy as pie...
- In the menu, choose View > Screen Layout
- Now choose one from the available layouts
The Full Height Details is a nice one, it gives you more space to view the detail of the selected movie.
The Full Height Tree layout works well for most people though, which is why that one is selected as the "default" view.
Oh, I almost forgot: you can resize the individual panels too, just drag
the dividers that separate them.
Templates
Most users like to customize the look of the movie details in the lower right. Here's how you do it:
- Right click the details panel and choose "Details View Template" from the popup-menu that appears. The menu will expand to show you the available layouts.
- Choose a layout and another sub-menu appears with the available styles for that layout.
- Now choose a style and the appearance of the movie details will change to your selected layout and style.
List Columns
Which columns are shown in the list is fully configurable. Just follow these steps:- Right click the column header of the list and choose Columns, then Choose Columns.
- In the Column Field Selection screen, use the checkboxes to decide which fields to show as columns. Check the ones you want, uncheck the ones you don't want, it's as simple as that.
- Change the order of the columns by dragging the field names up or down.
- When you're done, click OK.