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Country

Country specifies the origin country of the DVD release, which means the country the title was released for. Generally, you can expect the country you purchased the title in to be the country of origin, but in some situations titles are imported from other countries – in this case the country must specifies as the country where the title was imported from. The Country is required information before contributing a title to the Webservice, and when a title have been contributed the first time, Country can only be changed by a moderator.

Barcode

Barcode specifies the barcode of the DVD as found on the back cover of the DVD. The Barcode must match the barcode found on the back of the DVD, and only one title with the same barcode must be present for each country in the Webservice. The Barcode is required information before contributing a title to the Webservice, and when a title have been contributed the first time, Barcode can only be changed by a moderator.

Type

Type specifies the type of the media, “DVD”, “HD-DVD” or “Blu-ray”, combined titles with “HD-DVD” on one side, and “DVD” on the other must be specified as “HD-DVD”. The Type information does not refer to the type of the actual video on your hard drive. Notice that the contribution guide will refer to all of these as DVDs. The Type is required information before contributing a title to the Webservice, and when a title have been contributed the first time, Type can only be changed by a moderator.

Local Title, Original Title, Sort Title and Edition

Local Title contains the DVDs main title in the country it is released for. This title will be the one typically found on the movie cover. An example would be “The Lord of the Rings”, where Local Title would be “Les Deux Tours” for a DVD released in France and “Der Herr der Ringe” for a DVD released in France. The Local Title is required information before contributing a title to the Webservice.

Original Title contains the films main title in the country it was produced in. This title can typical be found on the back of the movie cover as a small note of the original title. An example would be English “Lord of the Rings”, French “Les Deux Tours”, and German “Herr der Ringe” that as original title always would be “Lord of the Rings” no matter what country the DVD was released for. When a DVD is released for the same country that it was produced in, the Original Title typically equals the Local Title.

Sort Title equals the Local Title, with exceptions of leading words, such as “The” in English, “Die”, “Das” and “Der” in Germany, and similar, where the leading word must be placed behind the title. An example would be the English Sort Title, “Lord of the Rings, The”, and the German Sort Title “Herr der Ringe, Der”. If the title contains roman numbers, such as "V" and "IV", these should as sort title be changed to standard numeric values with minimum two digits, such as "05" and "04" - as an example, "Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back " as local title should be added as "Star Wars 05: Empire Strikes Back" as Sort Title.If a title is a sequel the sort title needs to be set to the common name followed by a two digit number and then the titles proper name. As an example the Indiana Jones movies.
Local Title:
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Sort Title:
Indiana Jones 01: and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones 02: and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones 03: and the Last Crusade


Edition contains the edition of the DVD, to be able to distinguish different releases of the same film, such as “Widescreen Edition”, “Full-Screen Edition”, “Unrated” and similar. The edition of the film, if any, is typically printed on the front of the DVD cover. If no Edition can be found on the cover of the DVD, and you are unaware of other releases of the same film, the Edition field should be left blank.

Please notice the following things when contributing titles and editions:

  • Use correct capitalization of the title, and for English do not capitalize joining words such as “the”, “a”, “in” or “of” unless they only, first or last word in the title. An example is “The Lord of the Rings”, where “The” is capitalized because it is the first word, “of” and second “the” isn’t as it joining words that is not only, first or last word, and “Lord” and “Rings” is capitalized, because they are not joining words, a capitalization such as “The Lord Of The Rings” would be incorrect, and the same would “The lord of the rings”. Please pay attention to correct capitalization on non-English languages that must follow the common usage in that specific language.
  • Never add additional information to the title fields, such as “Full-Screen”, “Unrated”, “HD”, “DTS” or similar, DVD edition information must be added to the “Edition” section, type such as “HD-DVD” must be select in the “Type” field, and audio information goes in the audio section.
  • The word “Local” in local title does not refer to this title being a local one for your personal collection only, the “Local Title” is the main title on the My Movies Webservice.
  • If the title on the DVD cover includes information that is not part of the actual title, such as "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride", only the actual title name "Corpse Bride" should be added to the local title field. The full title, such as "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" is to be added to the "Original Title" field.

Production Year

Production Year contains the year the film originally was released to theatres. This original release year is to be used also on new creations of the film, such as directors cut or similar, meaning that new creations do not give the title a new Production Year.

Release Date

Release Date contains the specific date on where the DVD was first released within the country of origin.

Please notice the following things when contributing release dates:

  • Release Date is precise specified information, meaning that if you do not know the specific release date, you should leave the field empty.
  • If a title goes out of print, and is later re-released, the Release Date should contain the date of the original release, as long as the title is still having the same barcode.

Running Time

Running Time contains the length in minutes of the main movie of the DVD, without extra material, intros or similar. Generally, the length of the title can be found on the DVD cover, and this is the main source, unless you can find a specific difference in actual running time as displayed by the player, in which case the running time of the player is the one to use. Running time must be rounded to nearest full minute, 30 second and above rounds up. An example would be that the player shows 90 minutes and 43 seconds running time, in which case running time must be specified as 91 minutes, even if the cover specifies 90 minutes.

Parental Rating & Parental Rating Description

Parental Rating contains the rating of the DVD in the country the DVD was released for. The Parental Rating can be found on the DVD cover if the DVD is rated. If the DVD is not rated, use the setting “Unrated”. The rating settings follow the country specified for the title, so when creating new titles manually, be sure to specify a country for correct Parental Rating options. If the Parental Rating levels are not known for the country the DVD was released for, a standard set of levels will be used.

Parental Rating Description contains the description for the reason of the rating, often found on the back side of the cover next to the parental rating setting, when the DVD was released for a country where descriptions or reasons are specified along with the parental ratings. An example is “Rated R for strong language and violence”. If no description is known, the field should be left blank.

Aspect Ratio
To come

Video Format
To come

Genres

Genres are for some titles listed on the title cover, but in other situations Genres come down to the individual user’s interpretation. It is recommended to use IMDB.com as source for Genres, if the genres are not listed on the title cover, or if you are unsure of which Genres to add.

Studios

Studios refer to the studios which released the movie in theaters, production companies and the distributing studio on disc, and must be added in that order:

1. Studio behind the theatrical release
2. Production company or companies
3. Disc distribution company

It is required to at least specify the studios mentioned on the back cover on the title, contributing only some of the studios listed on the titles back cover will be considered an invalid contribution.

Extra Features

Extra Features contains the description of extra features found on the title cover, and must written exactly as it is on the title cover, and in the sa me language as it is written on the title cover.

Capitalization must be kept as it is on the cover, and special letters, such as ©, ®, and similar must be typed in too. Special characters can be copied from the Windows Character Map application. In situations where the full extra features description is written in capitalized letters, capitalization should not be kept, and standard writing capitalization rules should be used.

Please notice the following things when contributing description:

  • Do not contribute information about extra features that is not mentioned on the cover.
  • You may not contribute other languages than the one written on the cover, even if the language written on the cover does not match the country of origin.
  • You may not write HTML codes in the extra features description.
  • If no description of extra material is present on the title cover, and only in this case you may click the box “The title does not contain any extra material” to be able to complete the title.

Discs & Disc Id’s
To come

Audio Tracks

Audio Tracks is not always easy to contribute, as the individual audio track is not always specifically identified on the back cover, but have different names depending on which studio released the title.

When contributing audio tracks, notice the following:

  • In some situations, only “5.1”, “Stereo”, “Mono” or similar is listed, without a specified type. In these situations, a Dolby Digital logo is often found on the back cover to identify that the type of the audio track is Dolby Digital, or a DTS logo to identify a DTS audio track.
  • An audio track specified as “Uncompressed” refers to PCM audio tracks.
  • DTS-HD audio tracks that are not specifically specified as “High Resolution” or “Master Audio” must be added as “High Resolution”.

It is required to list all audio tracks listed on the titles back cover, listing only some of these will be considered an incorrect contribution.

In case you are unsure of which audio track to select, contribute the title front and back cover to the service, and ask on the forums which audio track to specify. If you are unsure, you should not be contributing audio tracks.

Subtitles

Subtitles refer to subtitles on the main movie; subtitles on extra material should not be listed.

It is required to list all subtitles listed on the titles back cover, listing only some of these will be considered an incorrect contribution. If the subtitle language is not available, select “Other”.

Description

Description contains the description found on the title cover, and must written exactly as it is on the title cover, and in the same language as it is written on the title cover.

Capitalization must be kept as it is on the cover, and special letters, such as ©, ®, and similar must be typed in too. Special characters can be copied from the Windows Character Map application. In situations where the full description is written in capitalized letters, capitalization should not be kept, and standard writing capitalization rules should be used.

Please notice the following things when contributing description:

  • Do not contribute taglines, reviews, extra features or similar, unless it is a direct part of the description.
  • You may not contribute other languages than the one written on the cover, even if the language written on the cover does not match the country of origin.
  • You may not write HTML codes in the description.
  • If a title has no description, and only if a title has no description on the title cover, you may write “Description not present”, in a language matching the country of origin, to be able to complete the title fully.
  • As the description must match the description on the cover, you may not contribute description before the full cover is available.

Covers

Covers contributed are required to match the title exactly, meaning that the barcode on the back cover must specifically be the same as the barcode of the profile.

Contributed covers must not contained text, stamps, watermarks or anything else that is not part of the original cover scan, such as “Copyrighted Material” stamps, store logos or similar. Contributing covers with such stamps is considered invalid contributions.

If a title is not yet released, and the cover is therefore not available, you may contribute a movie poster of the title, as long as this is only contributed as a front cover, and as long as the contribution is made prior to the titles release date.

Please notice the following when contributing covers:

  • Contributing on top of existing covers may only be done if the existing covers do not follow the contribution guide, or when the program lists covers as “Improvable”, and your contributed covers is of a better quality than the existing ones.
  • You may not contribute custom edited covers. Only covers specifically from the original material are allowed, however improving scanned colors, and removing scanning artifacts is allowed.
  • Contributed covers must include only front and back cover parts. When selecting a full cover scan, in most situations the cover will automatically be split by the program, but it is your responsibility that the cover is split correct before contributing.
  • If you contribute a cover without a barcode, you must be certain that the contributed cover is of the correct title and edition.
  • If a back cover is not available, contribute only the front cover. Never contribute the front cover in the back cover slot.

When contributing covers, these will automatically be down-scaled to 150 dpi, and a JPEG quality of 85 of 100, while your local covers will be down-scaled to 250 dpi. It is therefore recommended to scan in 250 dpi when scanning covers.

Actors
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Director
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