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
Editing List Icons
Changing List Icons
With Movie Collector 8 you can now customize any format or folder icon with an image from your computer. Below, (Figure 1) you can see how icons have been added to the country list to show flags for each country. These icons are then shown when using Folder View (Figure 2).
Figure 1: Country List
How to:
- Click Tools > Edit Lists from the main menu
- Use the yellow folder icon located in the top left of the Edit List screen to locate the list you wish to edit
- Double click on a list entry to view the Edit window shown in Figure 1
- Click the Browse button to locate images on your computer
You can define two types of images, a small thumbnail icon, and a larger template icon. Thumbnail images will appear in the main list, template icons will appear in the Detail Template.
N.B. Template icons are only used for the Region, Audience Rating and Format.
Figure 2: Main List
