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
Importing from text
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Preparing for Import
With Movie Collector you can import a .csv or text list. Movie Collector's text import is limited to two fields: Title and barcode.
Your text/csv should look something like this:
Important: It is not possible to import any additional fields. Your text file must contain only these fields, and must also use the same order, i.e. title followed by barcode. After importing your text list you can update it with additional information from our central database (e.g. cover image, plot, cast, etc).
Importing
Here's how to import:
- Start Movie Collector
- Click: File > Import From > Text
- Click 'Browse' and locate your txt/csv file
- Set the text qualifiers and delimiters to match your text file
- Check the preview to ensure everything appears correctly
- Once complete, click OK to import the list
Text Import screen showing a text file ready to be imported.
Updating your data
After importing you can retrieve more information from the Collectorz.com online Movie Database such as cover image, plot, cast, format etc. Here's how:
- Click Edit > Select All
- Click Edit > Update Movie(s) Automatically
- A message will appear asking you if you'd like to link your movies, click Yes.
- Movie Collector will now search our online database
- Results will be shown at the bottom of the screen
- Select a result form our database then click Update
Update Movies screen.
You can also click Search All to search all of your imported movies, then click Update All to update all movies in the list which have an exact match. If an exact match is not found in our central database, a list of results will be provided from which you can select the correct result.
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