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| Registered: August 9, 2007 |  Posts: 50 |
| | Posted: | | | | Some of the indian movies a released on a cheap 2 in 1 Disc.
Unfortunately for some rare movies I had to buy these crappy ones.
So you have 2 movies on one disc and both names are in the title and on the cover.
How do I enter this?
Here some examples: http://www.bollymarket.com/dvd-films-kollywood-2-in-1-c-91_92_123.html | | | | Last edited: by HuSanNiang |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | You can do what you wish locally but for the main database I believe the Rules are:
If they are both on one side of the disc:
One profile with the titles as printed on the cover (from agreed 'standard' we usually separte them by a " / " (space,slash,space)
Runtime etc is total of the two movies
Production year is the earlier of the two movies
Audio etc. combination of the two movies (eg if one has Indian and English and the other has just Indian then Indian and English, not 2 Indian tracks)
Cast and Crew are put in separately for each movie using a 'separator' with the appropriate movie title as a heading for each
Submit the whole lot by EAN/UPC
If it is a double sided disc with one movie on each side:
Make 3 profiles (one parent and 2 children) as follows:
Treat the parent profile as a boxset (see the Rules on what NOT to include on this) - submit by EAN/UPC
Each side of the disc ie. each movie, is a separate profile exactly as if there were just that movie on the disc and both are child profiles for the (mostly blank) parent - submit each by Disc ID of the associate side of the disc
Locally, if they are both one one side of the disc, you may want to treat each movie separately as a manual profile and treat like the boxset in the second example but these cannot be submitted to the online database
Hope that helps! | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
| | Registered: August 9, 2007 | | Posts: 50 |
| | Posted: | | | | TXS for the information! All are on one disc. Audio is always the same. Sometimes subtitles are not on both. Never used separators. Will see when I enter them. First I will watch them  |
| | Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | You need to use Episode Dividers to separate the cast and crew for the two movies.
As far as audio, subtitles, video formats etc. goes: DVDP is incapable of handling any differences between the two movies properly. Personally I would try and look for what the two movies have in common and enter that. In the example Voltaire53 gave, I would only enter Indian in Audio, the reason being that if English was entered as well, our fellow users might expect an English audio track to be present for both movies.
His advice to create manual profiles for the individual movies is sound. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
As far as audio, subtitles, video formats etc. goes: DVDP is incapable of handling any differences between the two movies properly. Personally I would try and look for what the two movies have in common and enter that. In the example Voltaire53 gave, I would only enter Indian in Audio, the reason being that if English was entered as well, our fellow users might expect an English audio track to be present for both movies.
Interesting thoughts; I think personally (though it could be misleading, as you say) I would still enter both Indian and English in my example since the Rules say to treat the profile like a TV series and if we have a TV season with English audio throughout and a Commentary on one episode we'd still enter the Commentary soundtrack even though it was not on all episodes. Still, with multiple languages I wouldn't say either was specifically against the Rules. I will totally agree though that it is a difficult area and not one able to be treated particularly well in Profiler (eg. if the two movies were both widescreen but had different aspect ratios there is no possible way to show this!) and I don't think either take on it would be 'wrong'! FWIW locally I do use manual profiles in cases like this under the 'best effort' at putting the movies into one profile as we've described; hopefully one day we'll get a way to submit these! | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
| | Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think both approaches are equally valid. We really DO need a programme upgrade to handle such releases properly.  |
| | Registered: August 9, 2007 | | Posts: 50 |
| | Posted: | | | | Of course I don´t have to mention that the language is neighter Hindi nor English. My 2:1 are mostly Tamil , some are Telugu or they are tamil movies in telugu dubbing  So language wise it is only OTHERS .  |
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