Quoting surfeur51:

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You can have pictures dedicated to each profile. You just click on the folder icon in the gallery window, and it creates a subfolder in the ScenePhotos folder, named with the UPC/EAN of the profile. You just paste your pictures in those subfolders.

Thanks, pardner! That even I could follow (love the pix & the red ink, etc. ). Not sure why, but Cntrl+G is still useless, however, I got to add pix so who cares! 

Well, my friend, I'm just gonna have to plead ignorance on several fronts, which means giving up on subbing this title, which is a damn shame … 

Cover Image is no problem. First off, I scan at 1200 DPI. Secondly, the movie I was working on has no cover. I was only confused about whether the site wanted scans to come from the paper inserts alone or only with-in the BD case. I am puzzled by the "HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs in either HD Slim or HD Keep Case type cases without slip covers should be scanned without the HD banner" rule. I'm puzzled because so many existing covers have the blue "Blu-ray" banner showing at the top. Should folks send in scans without the banner if they have those blu-rays?

The "Group divider" thing is ... unclear to me. I see the "Add Divider" button, but that doesn't tell me how to add them. I can't add the group name without creating a "person". Would I add the four ladies, and use "credited as" for each, entering the group name? And if so, what do I put in the "Role Played" line? They're back-up singers, but I can't say so. Do I just add all 4 names and list all four with the group name - and then add a divider below?

Esther Marrow   The Queens of Rhythm
Madelyn Quebec   The Queens of Rhythm
Debra Byrd   The Queens of Rhythm
Elisecia Wright   The Queens of Rhythm
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But that won't do because the divider wants a caption! 

The "Credit Lookup" is the real killer. I see what you're saying, that I've only been searching my own database - and I guess that means that I'd have to scrape all of these entry's because they may be in Invelos's database and I don't wish to create any duplicates. Glad I stopped to ask questions before sending this in. However, I don't know how you add cast/crew from that list because I've never seen that list. I have no "database tab above". I checked every icon, every dropdown list from File to Help (and Help was no help) … I can find nothing which links to an Online database to check these cast/crew names against. 

Quoting Early Memphis:

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I am puzzled by the "HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs in either HD Slim or HD Keep Case type cases without slip covers should be scanned without the HD banner" rule. I'm puzzled because so many existing covers have the blue "Blu-ray" banner showing at the top. Should folks send in scans without the banner if they have those blu-rays?

This rule only applies to covers which stick in HD Slim or HD Keep Case cases. You take out the paper from the plastic case and scan the paper alone.

If this paper happens to have a Blu-ray banner on top, so be it. This rule is just there to prevent you fram scanning the plastic Blu-ray banner that is part of the case.

If you set your profile to HD Slim or HD Keep Case, DVD Profiler will add an automatically generated banner in the place where the plastic banner is on the real case. That's why you're not supposed to scan it yourself.

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Quoting Early Memphis:

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I have no "database tab above". I checked every icon, every dropdown list from File to Help (and Help was no help) … I can find nothing which links to an Online database to check these cast/crew names against. 

Not in your own database. At the top of this page that you're on right now. There's nine tabs at the top of this page. Database is the third last. If you click that tab, it'll take you to another page where the Credit Lookup tab exists. Click on that. Type the name into the box and search. That's where you'll find a list of every film for a specific person.

What a putz - me that is.  Thank you. I still can't move forward until I understand how to deal with these four backup singers, but as long as I use the same spelling on my end, I won't be creating any duplicates, right?
Man, I'd have gladly paid extra if they'd have printed up a manual.   

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You bet your ass that helps!    Can I give you two props in the same day? Yes, I can! 

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The problem is that we have a program that do not like name variants, and rules (exactly as credited) that generate variants. The solution (as a change of the program is a huge work, and change of rules is easy), is to have rules that reduce as much as possible the number of variants : for example (all "my" solutions could be of course discussed) :
- always correct obvious mistakes
- use maiden name for actresses who use both married and maiden name.
- for Asian names, always put family name in last name field
- for actors using both complete midle name and just initial, or no middle name, always use complete middle name
- for accented names, use the accentuation of the language of the concerned person.
- when no BY is available for same name/different persons, use 8xxx, xxx being the last numbers of the year of production of the first movie of the actor.

Good luck in getting those rules changed/implemented. I don't think it will happen.



- always correct obvious mistakes

It's what I do in my local. Cecil Kellaway always gets entered as Cecil Kellaway...if his name gets misspelled on-screen as in The Mummy's Hand, I still enter the correct spelling, and, in the role field I enter: TheGreat Solvani (as Cecil Kelloway), IMDb style.

The problem with what you suggest (for the main db) as I see it,  is that what might be "obvious" to some, might not be so "obvious" to the rest. So, mistakes would still get entered, especially in regards to more obscure cast/crew names.

- for Asian names, always put family name in last name field

Again, this is also what I do in my local.
Akira Kurosawa, not Kurosawa Akira.....Li Gong, not Gong Li....Bela Lugosi, not Lugosi Bela (Hungary being the one European country where the surname comes first).

- for accented names, use the accentuation of the language of the concerned person.

That would require people (contributors) to know (or go out of their way to find out) that, say.... João Falcão / Joao Falcao is Portuguese... that Tran Yên-Khê / Tran Yen-Khe is Vietnamese...that ?????´? ????????´? / Sergei Bondarchuk is Ukranian...and, even in countries where accented names are the norm, on-screen names can be missing the accent marks.

Personally, in my local I enter NO accent marks-ever.  René Clair becomes Rene Clair, Chloë Sevigny becomes Chloe Sevigny.....not saying I am "right" and that you should do what I do...just my preference..the way I like it... and it works like a charm for me.

- when no BY is available for same name/different persons, use 8xxx, xxx being the last numbers of the year of production of the first movie of the actor.

Too messy for my liking. I use a system similar to IMDb....I assign my own Roman numerals after a name:
John Smith (I) ...which might be John Smith (VI) @ IMDb
John Smith (II)
John Smith (III)
I don't have to worry about BYs, fake or real. Again, this isn't to suggest that you should do what I do. It works like a charm for me and that is enough.

Quoting JMGuer:

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Good luck in getting those rules changed/implemented. I don't think it will happen.

I agree with you. And I do not think the problem is Ken, as long as in most cases, he chose to please the majority of forum users, except when there is a program problem, which is not the case here. This problem has already been discussed in many occasions in Contribution rules forum, and most vocal users wanted to keep all the mistakes.

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I disagree. I believe that most contributors are working within the parameters that invelos has in place.

I do not understand your point.
Of course, I also believe that most contributors are working within the parameters that invelos has in place: if they didn't, their contributions would be refused. I was speaking about discussions in the Contribution rules forum (the one where people are not allowed to go without an Invelos agreement), not about contributions. I specially speak of this discussion and this one.

Sorry, but snore!!!

Maybe all us 'oldies' should just agree to not talk about these over-discussed, neverending, seemingly unsolvable issues. Instead we could just enjoy our collections. Makes sense to me.