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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | When the inclusion of headshots was announced for 3.0, I kind of rolled my eyes at a useless bell and whistle. But I've grown to like it and even get obsessive about it. Thanks to the plugin and Doug's collection of headshots, I got a good start on modern stars, but many older movies have no headshots in those collections. So I've started going through cast listings for them, adding people as much as I can. And the process is quite gratifyingly addictive. I'll click on a random profile, work through it, then jump to another profile where the actor or actress appears, and then continue the process, filling in the headshots again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Last night I looked up after doing a bunch of them and it was after midnight. Oy! What a ridiculous but fascinating toy! | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 254 |
| | Posted: | | | | I feel the same way. Alot of times now when I end up stuck on the phone with someone, I'll just scroll through casts looking for missing head shots to look up. It's like doodling.  | | | | "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 951 |
| | Posted: | | | | Where is this plugin and Doug's Collection, somehow I have missed it? | | | Are you local?
This is a local shop the strangers you would bring would not understand us, our customs, our local ways. |
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | | Posts: 69 |
| | Posted: | | | | Me too... I think I've manually added 100's of them. Would certainly like to see the plugin and collection if you know where I could find them as well. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | See here for the Plugin (for some reason, it's in Feature Requests, instead of Plugins.....)
http://dvdprofiler.com/Forums.aspx?task=viewtopic&topicID=30409&PageNum=1
And see here for Doug's Headshot collections.
http://www.dougweb.org/dvdpro/headshots/
I unzipped them and stuck them all in one big file to use with Caranthir's plugin. I have a big collection so it took 4 days for the computer to go through all the names, but it should be shorter for you if you have a reasonable database size. Caranthir's not kidding when he says to keep your hands off the mouse and keyboard while it does its magic.
There are a couple names it chokes on that you need to do manually---Gina Gershon is one, and read the first thread for a couple of others. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | | Posts: 69 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 756 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
What a ridiculous but fascinating toy! And there was I thinking I'm the only obsessive (according to my wife!) here ........I must get out more | | | | Chris | | | | Last edited: by Mole |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 16 |
| | Posted: | | | | I absolutely LOVE! That you guys don't have a ....I mean like to do this!! Yeah! that's what I meant  If I sent you my collection could you put them in for me - I mean since you're sort'a doing it anyway? pretty please | | | rwr-b
Bless your heart! |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | You can do collection backups and select cast/crew only, then restore those into another collection. As it restores, by default it will show old/new images and let you pick the better one. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative | | | | Last edited: by Ken Cole |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | Gerri took the day off work today - she's distracting me!  | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Young Skywalker: Quote:
Thanks I assume you are using the batch program which has been written to add the headshots automatically into your collection? I added 2,000 headshots using the program. (its in feature requests..)  | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 101 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have started to just at my whole database cast list and doing headshots in alphabeticle order. | | | | Sometimes you are the bowling ball, sometimes you are the pins. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 113 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote:
Gerri took the day off work today - she's distracting me! We don't want to know how. | | | JAFO
Registered DVD Profiler user since 10/14/2002
"Welcome to the party pal." - John McClane, Die Hard
"Grab your ankles and kiss your ass goodbye JAFO. We're going down." - Frank Murphy, Blue Thunder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 402 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote:
Gerri took the day off work today - she's distracting me! I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!!!!!! DUDE!.... get away from the computer.... TURN IT OFF!!! get to the distracting!  |
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| Registered: April 8, 2007 | | Posts: 1,057 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi Guys,
Stupid question time. Regarding 'headshots' is this where when you highlight an actor > cast > where it says drag image here, is this what headshots fills in?
Also I noticed 'Doug' has several files, where do you copy the files to & un-zip?
Thanks & Take Care
Rico | | | If I felt any better I'd be sick!
Envy is mental theft. If you covet another mans possessions, then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles, along with his money. D. Koontz | | | | Last edited: by Rico |
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