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Registered: May 7, 2010 | Posts: 11 |
| Posted: | | | | I looked at the pinned posts in various forums, but I couldn't find a good how-to on submitting a title that's not in the DB. Could be that I missed it because I just woke up and haven't downed my first can of pop yet, lol. If such a guide exists, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could point me towards it. Thanks! |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | First thing to do is read our Contribution Rules, then make sure you are following them. You don't give a lot information | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,946 |
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Registered: April 9, 2009 | Reputation: | Posts: 858 |
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Registered: May 7, 2010 | Posts: 11 |
| Posted: | | | | Thanks!
I'm going to go through them again later... right now it's really confusing me. |
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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,730 |
| Posted: | | | | Basically it's quite simple: Enter the credits as you find them. For Cast data that's usually all of the magic. For Crew it's a bit more complicated, because we don't enter all of them but only a selected few. I recommend a deeper glance at the abilities of the profile editor which already explains a lot, if questions should arise we're always there to help you (at least some of us ( )). Ohh, and welcome to our asylum! | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up! But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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Registered: March 28, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,299 |
| Posted: | | | | And for movies which have an existing profile, just not your particular release, you can also clone the existing profile and base yours off of it. See the "clone" link in my signature for how-to instructions.
It saves a lot of typing, but it's always a good idea to double-check the information with your actual release, since there's bound to be differences between the two. | | | Tags, tags, bo bags, banana fana fo fags, mi my mo mags, TAGS! Dolly's not alone. You can also clone profiles. You've got questions? You've got answers? Take the DVD Profiler Wiki for a spin. | | | Last edited: by Astrakan |
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Registered: May 7, 2010 | Posts: 11 |
| Posted: | | | | Thanks for the info and the welcome :-) The clone info is a good thing, as I do have a version of Vincent Price's "The Bat" that's not listed. My next concern is that I notice when I enter something like the Friday the 13th box set I get a lot of pop-ups asking me to add profiles for the movies inside the set. I have a couple horror movie collections that aren't in the database, and I'd like to add those, so I need to find where to attach other movies to a profile.
I'm just a little intimidated by the process because I had used DVDSpot ever since its inception (and was one of the editors for them), so learning a new process always throws me off a bit. I'll catch up, though! :-) | | | Last edited: by JestersTear |
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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 6,730 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting JestersTear: Quote: My next concern is that I notice when I enter something like the Friday the 13th box set I get a lot of pop-ups asking me to add profiles for the movies inside the set. That would be the so-called "child-profiles" A boxset profile in DVDProfiler only contains the basic data of the package. The data for the movies is contained in the child profiles. When you enter the EAN (UPC) of a boxset, DVDProfiler automatically checks if there are child profiles available and, if "Yes", asks you if you want to download them too. The recommended answer is "Yes". | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up! But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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Registered: May 22, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,033 |
| Posted: | | | | Also, keep in mind you don't need to contribute everything right from the start. UPC, Locality, Title (and perhaps production year (which is actually theatrical release year)) are all that are required.
with those fields a common mistake is locality. This should be the country that the disc was made to be sold in. When adding a new profile it will default to your well default locality (i believe) so double check this value to make sure your not creating a US Profile for a UK disc (a very common example I see).
Start with the fields that are easy then as you get more comfortable with the contribution process you can start with more complex fields (cast, crew, etc).
-Agrare |
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