Video Tutorials
Introduction
Welcome to our Video Tutorials section - on this page, our staff and moderators, will guide you through a set of My Movies tasks using short and easily understandable video tutorials. You can use this page to either go through the videos and watch them one by one, to quickly become a power user, or you can use them for reference when you need to learn more about a specific task.
If you are considering taking part in contributing to the My Movies WebService, it is recommended to watch the contribution videos, as well as reading the contribution guide, to ensure that you do this correctly.
We hope that these video's are helpful to you, and we hope to hear from you either on support@mymovies.dk or in our forums if there are other features you would like explained through a video.
Contributing to WebService
Creating and contributing new title (5 minutes and 49 seconds)
In this video, your are guided through creating a new basic title and contributing it to the WebService, in case you are trying to add a title that does not yet exist in the WebService.
You will see how to create a new manually created profile, and add data and cover and to it, and lastly, contribute it back to the WebService to receive contribution points.
This video is a recommended watch if you are planning to start contributing to our WebService to take part in the community.
- Created in January 2009 on My Movies 2.52.
Adding and improving existing title (11 minutes and 31 seconds)
This video shows how a basic existing title from the WebService, with a lot of incomplete data is completed to be 100% complete, and shows how contribution points is received for it.
You will see in details how each part of a title profile is added and contributed to the WebService, which can be done each time you meet a profile that is not yet 100% complete.
Even though being long, this video is recommended to see details on how to contribute every detail of a title profile.
- Created in January 2009 on My Movies 2.52.
Requesting a title locked (2 minutes and 48 seconds)
If you have completed a title, you can request that a moderator locks the title to ensure that no one else changes the profile.
You will see how to use the "Report Incorrect Data" function to request a title lock, after you have completed the title to a state where all data is added, and no items is listed as improveable.
This video is recommended if you frequently improve titles to be 100% complete, and have the covers available to ensure a maximum cover resolution, or if you find other users incorrectly changing an already 100% complete title.
- Created in January 2009 on My Movies 2.52.
TV Series Episode Mapping (6 minutes and 43 seconds)
For TV Series on DVD to be displayed correctly in the tv series library, the episodes of the DVD must be mapped to the title and chapter structure of the disc. In this video, you will see how to map the episodes of the disc to the structure, by using the Collection Management program and Windows Media Player, allowing the DVD to be supported for the TV Series functionality.
This video is recommended if you are unsure how to prepare titles in your collection for the TV Series functionality, or if you would like to help other users by contributing these mappings to the WebService.
- Created in May 2011 on My Movies 4.00.
Cover Cropping (3 minutes and 55 seconds)
To keep a consitant quality on cover art, it is important that covers are prepared correct to ensure that borders and scanning edges is correctly removed. In this video, you will see how a DVD and a Blu-ray cover must be cropped to follow the guidelines.
This video is recommended if you are contributing cover scans, and are unsure how these should be prepared correct before contributing these mappings to the WebService.
- Created in May 2011 on My Movies 4.00.
Online Collection
Creating an Online Collection (3 minutes and 48 seconds)
If you are interested in creating a free professional looking Online Collection hosted on our webservers to let your friends and family look through your movie collection, Nick will, in this video, show you how to easily create and configure your Online Collection.
You will see how the Online Collection is created, how you configure it, how you access it and lastly, Nick will show you the different parts of the Online Collection.
This video is a recommended watch if you would like to show off your movie collection.
- Created in January 2009 on My Movies 2.52.
My Movies for Windows Home Server
Installing and Configuring My Movies for Windows Home Server (6 minutes and 12 seconds)
If you are looking to install My Movies for Windows Home Server, this video is a good starting point to see how to install and configure the software.
Nick will take you through the full installation process, as well as going through the startup configuration.
This video is a recommended watch before installing My Movies for Windows Home Server.
- Created in January 2009 on My Movies for WHS 1.04.
Installing a My Movies Client and connecting it to your Home Server (3 minutes and 15 seconds)
In this tutorial Nick will explain the process for installing the MyMovies client on the local PC.
After installation Nick will guide you through the configuration process to connect to your Windows Home Server, configure the Country and language, and finally configure your WebService account
This tutorial is a recommended watch for all My Movies client installations.
- Created in January 2009 on MyMovies 2.52.
Ensuring data on automatic disc copying (9 minutes 19 seconds)
If it is important for you to get high quality meta-data when copying movies, and you have previously experienced a disc not being identified with meta-data, this video will show you how to correct this to ensure perfect meta-data, all the time.
Nick will take you through the process of configuring the software to reject the disc if data is not found, and instead contribute the disc identification to the WebService, and finally reinserting the disc to be copied, to see how meta-data is then correctly applied.
This video is recommended before you copy movie discs with My Movies for Windows Home Server, to ensure that you always get high quality meta-data added to your titles.
- Created in January 2009 on My Movies for WHS 1.04.
Upgrading My Movies for Windows Home Server (4 minutes 20 seconds)
Upgrading add-ins on Windows Home Server requires uninstalling a prior version before installing the new one.
In this video, Nick will take you through the process of uninstalling the prior version, and installing the new version.
This video is a recommended watch before you upgrade My Movies for Windows Home Server.
- Created in February 2009 on My Movies for WHS 1.05.
Enabling and Configuring automatic database backup (1 minute 58 seconds)
My Movies for Windows Home Server stores all it's information in a database, both the interface status lists and movie data for My Movies Clients. To keep this data safe of corruption failures, disc failures or similar, it is a good idea to enable automatic backup of the database.
Nick will take you through the process of enabling and configuring the automatic backup feature.
This video is recommended if you use, or plan to use a My Movies Client to connect to your Windows Home Server to edit movie data, and would like your data to be stored safely.
- Created in February 2009 on My Movies for WHS 1.05.