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Jul 6, 2009, 10:41 AM
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Brad DerManouelian <bderman [at] gmail>wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Tony Baca wrote:
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> My Video collection is getting quite large. The Wife does not like to
>> scroll through the videos looking at what there is, honestly, I don’t like
>> to either.
>>
>> I want to make a “card catalog” of the videos. I would like to pull from
>> the database information and print it on a card, or piece of paper, put the
>> paper in a three ring binder. As I add new vides, I can print a page and
>> insert it in the proper place in the binder.
>>
>> Two questions:
>> 1) Has anyone done something similar or solved the problem in a
>> different manor?
>> 2) What tools would you recommend to someone who knows only the
>> very basics of sql?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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> Wow! Sounds kind of backwards to me to move from a database to printed
> pages. How do you normally browse your videos? I do mine by Genre. Simply
> create a folder for each Genre of your choosing and move your videos to the
> appropriate one. Then when you bring up the Videos page, you are presented
> with a genre list.
>
> You can get even more control with symlinks. At the top level, make Genre
> folders with names that force them to the top of the list (~Action, ~Comedy,
> ~Drama, etc.) Then place the original files at the top level for those that
> like to scroll through long lists of movie names and put a symlink into
> their appropriate genre(s).
>
> Or the simple built-in solution: make sure all your genre metadata is
> filled out appropriately for each video and filter/search for videos.
>
> -Brad
>
thanks for the suggestion. I hear what you are sawying about going
backwards! For me it is about what increasing the WAF! Mine would rather
look at paper, then have to press buttons :)
I do need to update the metadata. I could use symlinks to put video into
multipule genre, that may help.
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