Adding movies automatically

Open up the Add Automatically screen by clicking the left most button on your toolbar. With this screen you will unleash the power of Movie Collector by quickly and efficiently adding movies to your collection.

Searching by Title

A convenient way to find movies in the Collectorz.com online movie database. Just enter (part of) your movie title, hit Search Now and select the correct entry from the Search Results panel.

A few helpful tricks to be aware of...

• Watch the Cover, Format and Region columns, they will help you find the best result.
• Double-click a result to preview its data in the Preview panel
• Can't find a matching edition? Then you can still add the movie by selecting the movie entry itself. This will at least give you cast and crew listing and a movie image.
• Can't find your movie at all? (yes, this happens in rare cases) Then use the Add Anyway button to add the movie anyway (with just your title filled)
• You can add multiple movies in one go, by checking the checkboxes to the left of multiple results and then clicking Add Checked. Comes in handy when adding all your Harry Potter or LOTR DVDs. Just enter "harry potter" in the Title box, hit Search Now and check the ones you own.

Instant Info from the Barcode

Searching by barcode has several advantages...

• It instantly returns only *one* result: the exact edition that you own.
• This one result is automatically shown in the Preview Panel, no double-click needed.
• Better chance of finding your edition, because for barcode searches the Collectorz.com search engine performs what we call "Automatic On Demand Amazon Lookups". Which basically means that if our own database does not recognize your barcode, it just asks Amazon.

( Like how that works? Then consider speeding it up with one of our barcode scanners )

The Queue Mode

Ready for some advanced stuff? Then let's try the Queue Mode, a way to do searching, selecting and adding in batch. Here's how to use it:

1. Switch to Queue Mode using the Show Queue button on the right. The Search Queue will appear and the Search Now button will be automatically be replaced by an Add to Queue button.
2. Now, enter a movie title and click Add to Queue. See how it is added to the queue?
3. Do the same with some more movie titles.
4. Once you have a couple of searches queued, hit the Search All button. Movie Collector will now perform all title searches in one go.
5. When its done, you can start selecting results. Just select the first search in the queue and its results will appear below. But there's one important difference with the Search Now mode: Here, you have to select results by clicking the checkbox to the left of the result you want. This tells the program to remember your selection for this search.
6. Do the same for all entries in the queue, each time selecting one checkbox.
7. When you're done checking boxes, hit the Add All button. Movie Collector will now start downloading the details and images for all checked results.
   Everything will be added automatically for you!

Using the Queue Mode can be useful when you're on a slow dial-up connection, because it lets the program do the slow internet stuff in big batches. And while it's doing its thing, you can brew come more coffee, take a nap, run some errand... whatever!

And it is essential when using one of our cool laser barcode scanners with built-in memory. These gadgets can automatically unload hundreds of barcodes into the queue, ready to be searched!

New Releases

On the New Releases tab-page you can check which movies were released a month ago all the way up to a few weeks from todays date. Extremely useful to add titles that you want to buy (setting the status to "Wanted" when you add them). Just click Refresh to see the latest list of new releases. If you already own one of these releases it will color blue in the list.

Tip: Use the "Editions" dropdown menu to filter on region.

Most Popular

Do you wonder which movies are most popular in our database? Do you have the number one most popular movie in your database already? Click on the "Most Popular" tab and hit refresh to see the Collectorz.com Movie Top 50.

If you see a lot of blue colored titles: congratulations! You own a lot of popular movies! Maybe you will see some titles that you forgot about and still want to get? Check the checkboxes in front of them and click "Add Checked" to add them to your collection.

This Top 50 is refreshed every week (usually Monday morning GMT+01) so that's when you can use the refresh button again. You can also visit the Top 50 online right here.

Can't find your movie?

Tried all possible searches but still can't find your movie? You may want to add the movie manually.