Wednesday, October 14, 2009

How to Organize a Movie Collection?

Until recent times organizing a movie collection was not easy at all. Hundreds of movies used to fill all the shelves in a flat with no hope for any orderliness at all. Development of high tech devices, mass spreading of the internet, arrival of high-density Blu-ray discs with dream storage capacity have made the problem even more complex.

However things have changed with the advent of movie organizing software. So far it seems to be the only logical and efficient way to organize a movie collection of any size. To say nothing about leading-edge next-generation movie collection software like All My Movies.

According to numerous delighted users of the program, All My Movies has solved their problems with smart organizing of a movie collection. Its progressive features make the program indispensible in terms of high functionality and high efficiency.

To start with, All My Movies supports DACAL DC-300 CD Library II device. You’ll appreciate it if you have already made attempts to organize your movie collection in this way. Moreover, it provides the ability to add DVD discs using UPC/EAN barcodes and fully supports widely spread CueCat barcode scanners. All you need to do is to enter the barcode or scan the box with a special scanner and the program picks up all the information automatically.

Then, even if you’ve got thousands of movies in your movie collection, adding and organizing them all will be no trouble! It’s effortless, extremely fast and it’s just fun! You are welcome to download all the details from different popular internet databases in your native language, some more databases are available for using through additional plug-ins. Besides, using third-party plugins you may easily migrate from other movie catalogue software.

Finally, according to its numerous users, working with this program is a genuine pleasure due to many reasons. It’s beautiful, which is not of minor importance for this sort of software – the interface with virtual shelf mode option, different sorting and grouping variants, the ability to automatically pick up photos of actors, actresses, directors, as well as various templates with the opportunity to edit them and add the field you personally need – make the program really nice and user-friendly. You can also maximally personalize your movie collection by capturing screenshots directly from the movie.

All My Movies has also solved a really urgent problem of keeping track of movies through a built-in loan manager which guarantees that you’re sure to know any moment whom you’ve given your movies and when they are back. Besides, you’ll appreciate the opportunity to play movies directly from the program with no necessity to search it on your hard drive. You may even use the program as movie playlist. Due to various export options you may export your entire movie collection to PDF, HTML, plain text, Microsoft Excel or image, so that you could place it on your website or share with friends. Really impressive, isn’t it?

So, now you’ve got the best way to organize your movie collection – well, the only thing left is to download a trial version of All My Movies and make your movie library organized and well-structured!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Software for Every Movie Collector

Collecting movies is a real pleasure for most of us, while some are related to collecting movies by virtue of their professional activity. Other people own a movie shop or a movie rental or an internet café and vitally need to organize their enormous collections of movies for servicing convenience and quickness. You know customers are not over-enthusiastic about waiting for you trying to find the movie needed. Movie gurus are searching for a movie collector to organize somehow their gigantic collections – otherwise it’s neither convenient nor fast to use it. "Amateurs" having few movies in their collection would also like to have them organized and ordered. Well, anyway, all movie collectors, whether professionals and amateurs, need some efficient, comprehensive software with a nice interface which is good at collecting all sorts of movies. Many of them give their preferences to All My Movies highlighting its most progressive and valuable features.

To begin with, this movie collector software is really easy to use. Adding hundreds of movies won’t take much time. The whole process is automatic: you enter the title, choose a database from the list of databases available (IMDb.com, cinebel.be, OFDb.de, amazon.co.uk, etc), click "ok" and here you are! All the fields of a movie card are filled in carefully and with no efforts of yours!

Secondly, the interface of this movie collector software is really awesome – large living covers from Amazon.com, DVDEmpire.com, skinnable interface, availability of various templates and display modes to any taste (Virtual shelf mode is really amazing!) make the program easily and quickly adjustable for the most sophisticated user. Moreover, the opportunities to capture any stills you like from the movie, even export them as well as adding actors’ photos, biography and filmography (also in a couple of mouse clicks) make this movie collector software really indispensable and worthily appreciated by users.

For any movie collector with quite an extensive movie database various search options, quick filters, different sorting and grouping modes have been provided for. Being friendly and progressive movie collector software, All My Movies offers its users wide export and import opportunities: so, if your movie collection is in Microsoft Excel or plaintext or Access, using the program you won’t have to add any more data to your collection – everything will be copied automatically. If you’d just like to share your collection with friends or export it into any other format (pdf, HTML, CHM, Plaintext, Microsoft Excel, image or to a mobile device) and then print it – the program will be extremely efficient in that.

Have you got quite a lot of friends and like to exchange movies with them, often forgetting whom exactly you have given it? Well, All My Movies is coming to your relief: a sophisticated loan manager will not only remind whom you’ve lent a movie, but is going to keep loan history for all your friends.

So, if you really enjoy collecting movies, if you do this by virtue of your job or just because you are a movie fan, do not doubt and give a try to this wonderful movie collector software! You’ll see – you never regret it! ;))