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I think that Ken intended for standard rules to apply. I think we should apply standard rules. That said, I don't think that the rules make that clear. Let me explain:
If the box set cover contains a listing of contents with brief descriptions of each, enter it directly into the Overview field.
Now, if standard rules do indeed apply, then this sentence is superfluous. Such a listing should have been used for the overview anyway. So the inclusion of this sentence seems to imply that standard rules do not apply. It may not make much sense, but then again it's not the only thing in the rules that doesn't make sense. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 10383 |
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TurboCLT 1.0.4
Minor bugs in the context menu fixed. | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 13526 |
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I need to mention that mediadogg's work has been invaluable. Not only has he made improvements to HTTPJolie in order to make TurboCLT possible. It was actually he who pointed out to me that web scraping the CLT pages was so much faster with WebView2 than with previously available web components. Initially I just wrote a small test, but it was so successful that I continued.
You may notice that the results from TurboCLT looks a lot like what you would get from mediadogg's CLTBoss plugin plus my CLTinfo program. The big difference is that TurboCLT is so much faster (and is a single program). It's possible that mediadogg comes up with an improved CLTBoss, and if so you have two different approaches to chose from. The problem that mediadogg faces is that the plugin environment imposes various restrictions that a freestanding tool doesn't have to deal with.
Anyway, a hugh thank you to mediadogg for his great work! 
PS. The name TurboCLT is a bit tounge-in-cheek. It's certainly not super fast, but it is a lot faster than CLTBoss. For now, at least ... | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 13526 |
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TurboCLT provides info from Invelos that is more detailed than the ordinary CLT.
Note though, that you must have HTTPJolie version 1.61 (or later).
Detailed info can be useful when there are more than one person with the same name. If, for example, you're looking for a sound guy that goes by either Greg Jacobs or Gregory Jacobs, you can see the various function separated. Gregory may not be as far ahead as the bare CLT figures would indicate. And you can filter on the various crew roles to make it even easier.
The regular CLT does not separate persons by birth year. TurboCLT does.
How many titles are these really?
You might also spot some profiles that would benefit from adding Original Title.
All in all, if you want to improve the Invelos database, there is a lot of information here to point out profiles that might need updating.
Get TurboCLT verson 1.0 here. As always, I recommend that you take a look at the help file. | Posted: Topic Replies: 69, Topic Views: 13526 |
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| Well, I don't agree that "clarifications" necessarily means "addendum to", but that's another discussion. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 10383 |
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Quoting Danae Cassandra:
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Since Ken will never be available to modify the rules again, we have to operate on what makes the most logical sense.
I totally agree. The reason for my question was that I was about to make a contribution where I replaced an incorrect overview with the overview from the back cover of the boxset (which did not include a list of the contents). Then I checked the rules and I became uncertain of how others interpreted the rule. So I thought I'd check here.
Now it seems that my original interpretation is in fact what you all also think, so I can go ahead with my correction. Thanks! | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 10383 |
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Well, that is certainly what I would like the rule to say.
However, your interpretation makes the entire first sentence superfluous. By your reading of the rule, if there is an overview it should be entered as is, regardless of if it contains a listing of the contents or not.
I have a feeling that Ken may have meant it the way you read it, but he complicated it and made it ambiguous. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 10383 |
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Quoting the rules:
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If the box set cover contains a listing of contents with brief descriptions of each, enter it directly into the Overview field. If there is no overview on the cover, an overview from an included booklet may be substituted. Otherwise, enter an itemized listing of the contents only, without descriptions.
Does this mean that if there is an overview, but it does not list the contents, this overview should not be used, but instead just a listing of the contents without descriptions? | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 10383 |
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One thing to note is that if you intend to import your movie ratings from DVD Profiler, and your PC's regional settings specify decimal comma rather than decimal point, then you may have a problem, because Letterboxd expects numerical values with decimal point.
I haven't tried Enhanced Titles, so I'm not sure if it can force export with decimal point. My guess is that it can't. I know that ProfilerQuery can not.
But the again, this won't be a problem if you're in a "decimal point country" (or if you're willing to fiddle with your regional settings). | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 3832 |
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You could use ProfilerQuery. Run a query with the required fields, then Save result to file, which will create a CSV file. Then edit the file to add the appropriate column headings.
One thing, ProfilerQuery saves with semicolon as field separators. Letterboxd needs comma separated fields. So either use a text editor to change all semicolons into commas, or load the CSV file into a spreadsheet and re-save specifying comma separators. And with 1200+ profiles, you might consider splitting the CSV file into several smaller parts. Just make sure you add column headings to each part.
Note though, that with just Title, Production year (and possibly Director) to identify the movie, it will be a bit of hit and miss, so check the summary before completing the import.
Feel free to PM me if you get stuck. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 3832 |
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Just FYI, I did some looking up on these names, and I found 125 (2236) sound type credits for Richard L. Anderson and 21 (302) sound type credits for Richard Anderson. Number of credits broken down as follows:
Richard L. Anderson: Sound Editor (211), Sound Re-Recording Mixer (4), Supervising Sound Editor (2022)
Richard Anderson: Sound (1), Sound Editor (79), Supervising Sound Editor (222)
So Richard L. Anderson would seem to be a good candidate for common name. | Posted: Topic Replies: 10, Topic Views: 9383 |
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Thanks T!M,
That explains the mismatch that I saw. I didn't realize that the CLT was ”ahead” of the database files. That's a bit unfortunate as it makes it harder for me to verify that my program counts things correctly. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 4451 |
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| Ok, I wonder if T!M updated more than one profile, because I got perhaps half a dozen mismatches. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 4451 |
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While testing one of my programs I found a significant difference between my results and the ones from the CLT. I thought I had a bug, but after a lot of debugging it seems that it is instead the CLT that is buggy.
Case in point: I searched the CLT for "Paull Walia" (note Paull with two L). One of the profiles listed by the CLT is the German release of Ocean's Thirteen, UPC 7-321982-000868. It shows Paull Walia as "Security Technician". However when I downloaded the profile to check it, I see that the name in the actual profile is really "Paul Walia" with a single L.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 4451 |
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A few facts that probably has no bearing:
We have a Jason Griffith credited as Costume Designer in "4 Life", but IMDb list him as Jason Griffin, so that's probably a mistake in the profile.
There is a Jason Griffith listed as sound in "Barney: The Land of Make Believe" so most likely not one of the actors.
Then in the Netherlands release of "The 4400: The Second Season" there is Jason Griffiths, credited as Jason Griffith. But since all other releases of that title has Jason Griffith as Arlo, the Netherlands profile is almost certainly an error. There is an actor named Jason Griffiths, but he is not in any other 4400 release. Also, this doesn't impact the CLT result as the CLT will count the credited-as name. | Posted: Topic Replies: 28, Topic Views: 19335 |
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| Since 4K is region free, you can just buy it somewhere else. A bit inconvenient, but still possible. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 4948 |
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Quoting rdodolak:
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The SRP is typically without tax.
Only in the US. | Posted: Topic Replies: 10, Topic Views: 7759 |
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| You could probably do it with ProfilerQuery. You can save the result of a query as a CSV file (I assume that's what you meant). But you would, of course, need to know the exact format that is needed; which fields and in which order. | Posted: Topic Replies: 4, Topic Views: 4477 |
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CastCrewCheck 3.0.3
Somehow the previous update introduced a bug. When editing an existing cast entry (by double clicking a row), the OK button was disabled. This has been fixed. | Posted: Topic Replies: 87, Topic Views: 37385 |
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Stefano Maria Ortolani (Supervising Art Director)
Quoting huskersports:
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I don't have a credit for him in M:I 3 or The Core. Unit crew perhaps?
IMDb lists him as "Art Director: Italy" and "Art Director: Rome" respectively, so probably unit crew. I haven't checked the actual credits, though. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 12455 |
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I had posted version 5.0.5 on my website, but I forgot to mention it here. Perhaps just as well. It turned out that although it worked fine on my development PC, it crashed on some other machines.
I just recompiled the exact same source, and it worked. So if any of you downloaded 5.0.5 and had trouble with it, the fixed version is now available, zip files marked as 5.0.5a. | Posted: Topic Replies: 310, Topic Views: 40416 |
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I don't think it's possible in DVD Profiler itself. You can do it with ProfilerQuery, but you get a much simpler layout, for example:
You can, of course, configure which columns to include in the report (including thumbnails).
ProfilerQuery has a bit of a learning curve in order to get a result like this. However, should you want to give it a try, feel free to PM me for tips. | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 2375 |
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| I guess yesterday was screener day. I had a couple of updates accepted yesterday. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 2994 |
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CastCrewCheck 3.0.2
After a recent update to DJ's CastCrewEdit, the integration between CastCrewCheck and CastCrewEdit stopped working. This has now been fixed.
The previous version erroneously included support for WebView2, which was not needed, but takes up a lot of disk space. You can safely delete the subfolder named CastCrewCheck.exe.WebView2. | Posted: Topic Replies: 87, Topic Views: 37385 |
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Quoting Clark G. Flipper:
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One question: the requirement not to upload IMDB data to invelos is still effective, correct?
Correct! You can use it as a starting point, though, and verify/correct the data against the actual credits. CastCrewCheck can be helpful in this regard. | Posted: Topic Replies: 624, Topic Views: 59437 |