Movie Gatherer. A movie collectors site

You can always see where all the information is taken from, because the name of the source is displayed in the title of the movie card window. You do not have to save your selection; the program remembers your choice automatically. So, let's try to find information about, say, the movie "Ice Age 2". Type this name into the "Original title" field, press Enter, complete the familiar procedure and voila - the film is stored in the collection!

The whole process of adding a movie can be seen in an animation on the developers website at: http://www.bolidesoft.com/images/amm_movieadd_tut.gif. Although they tried to decrease the file size as much as possible by making the animation gray scale, the animated GIF file is still rather large -- about 1 Mb. But it will help to estimate the amount of time required to add a movie.

As I mentioned before, there are more ways to add a movie into the collection. You can also add movies on your computer to the program. To do this, select the "Movie -- Add from file" menu item. Just browse to the movies' location on your hard drive and All My Movies will read technical information such as audio and video codecs used, average bitrate of the audio and video streams, video length, frame rate, screen format, frame resolution and file size. All this information is stored in your collection. For some, this feature will be quite useful. It is also possible, with this method, to extract separate frames from the video file and store them in the collection. Sometimes it is hard to remember what that movie was about, but after having looked at two or three screenshots, you instantly remember the entire movie. Here is how you can extract frames from a movie:

Find the frame you want using the slider, press the "Save screenshot" button and the screenshot is attached to the selected movie. One more interesting feature is that all the movies added this way, can be started from within All My Movies using the toolbar button in the top part of the main window.

The "Movie -- Add DVD" menu item works in a similar way but is used to add DVD disks instead of single files. The function to extract screenshots and read technical information is available here, too.

The last way to add a new movie into the collection is to use the "Movie - Add DVD by barcode" menu item. This way All My Movies will try to find the movie in the on-line database using its barcode instead of the title. If you happen to own a barcode scanner, adding movies is even easier. This function seems to work best for DVD Region 1, though (disks released in the USA and Canada).

Now let’s have a closer look at how All My Movies displays all the information that is stored in the database. You can change the layout of the program by selecting another display template. You can do it using the "View -- HTML template" menu item. Here is for example a movie card displayed using the Indian template, which looks quite nice.