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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Beware though that a movie may have different releases with different UPCs. |
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| Registered: May 12, 2008 |  Posts: 49 |
| | Posted: | | | | It took me 7 days of manually inputting all DVDs (around 700 then) into the profiler, this was due to the fact that I preferred to take the task in stages to alleviate carrying and restoring back into storage. Probably about an hour each time, so overall about 1 hour per 100 manual DVD UPC input including carrying to PC and back!. Very simple and reasonably painless to do, though a pleasure when it is all running and you have corrected/updated some dubious entries to have a fully functional piece of kit that you will continue to access regularly!  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | 7 hours total sounds about right b0oyce. It's too bad editing titles and scanning doesn't go as quickly.<sigh>
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Welcome to the Asylum b0yce . Skip's right. 7 hours total isn't too bad. Scanning covers is a time consuming task for sure. Takes me, depending on the condition of the covers, approx. 2 hours for both front and back. That's from scanning, editing to submission. I guess it takes me so long cuz I'm just really picky. I try to make sure I get the best final results possible. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 |  Posts: 581 |
| | Posted: | | | | 2 hours for one title?
Some scans can take 5 minutes, and some could take 15 minutes, all depending on what needs to be done. I always use uncompressed TIF images and works on then in Photoshop.
Usually I do this if there's something I'm watching on TV, but I don't to concentrate on. Usually do some during Leno and Conan, usually when their guests is on. | | |  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Beastus: Quote:
2 hours for one title?
Some scans can take 5 minutes, and some could take 15 minutes, all depending on what needs to be done. I always use uncompressed TIF images and works on then in Photoshop.
Usually I do this if there's something I'm watching on TV, but I don't to concentrate on. Usually do some during Leno and Conan, usually when their guests is on. 2 hours is worse case scenario. For covers that are in good shape and need little to no editing, it doesn't take nearly that long, perhaps 20-30 minutes. I'm still working with an old system, Dell Dimension 4100, 1ghz Pentium III with 512 MB of RAM. I work with uncompressed .tifs at 600 dpi with Photoshop CS2, so it's pretty taxing on system resources and sometimes it's slow going  . | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yes< beastus. Two hours and that is just for the covers. Building a Profile from scratch or fixing one that is a mess can take another hour.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video | | | | Last edited: by Winston Smith |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting b0yce: Quote:
It took me 7 days of manually inputting all DVDs (around 700 then) into the profiler, this was due to the fact that I preferred to take the task in stages to alleviate carrying and restoring back into storage. Probably about an hour each time, so overall about 1 hour per 100 manual DVD UPC input including carrying to PC and back!.
Very simple and reasonably painless to do, though a pleasure when it is all running and you have corrected/updated some dubious entries to have a fully functional piece of kit that you will continue to access regularly! Now...... Don't forget to ............................ "BACKUP, Backup ,, backup..."" !!! .....  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: May 12, 2008 | | Posts: 49 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
Now...... Don't forget to ............................ "BACKUP, Backup ,, backup..."" !!! ..... Thanks for the advice, I work in software development and that was drilled into me many moons ago!  |
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