I just want to add MetaData!

[Ken]

Hello!

I have a lot of movies and TV shows that I ripped off of DVDs that I
own over the years and, while I had the correct names of the shows and
identified the episodes and such (in the case of TV) I never bothered
to fill in all the metadata. So, a week or two ago, I decided that
there has got to be a program out there that does this for me and I
soon found iFlicks. At the time, I was using the previous version of
iFlicks (1.0.8 ?).

I could go into a TV show (eg., Babylon 5, Season 1) and select all
episodes, choose the script "update metadata of selected using GUI,"
and I'd get a new dialog box in iFlicks--one per episode--asking me to
confirm the findings. I'd hit OK to all of them (or make changes in
the event that I had incorrectly swapped episode numbers) and I'd be
done. My Apple TV and iPhone would get the updated descriptions,
album art, etc. on the next sync.

So, I decided to buy iFlicks this evening. And, in doing this, I also
discovered a new version! I got my license and installed the new
version and, to my surprise, it doesn't appear that I can just add the
metadata like I did before (I did update the Applescripts). When I
choose this option now, it just adds videos that are selected but
already in iTunes into a queue. I can then manually open each one (or
open the first and choose next) then search and then hit OK. When
finished, though, there doesn't seem to be any way to update the
metadata on the existing videos that are already in iTunes (if I
wanted to convert them to a different format, then this is OK but I
don't want to change anything other than the metadata).

I realize that iFlicks does a lot more than just manage metadata and I
fully intend to use the additional features. Right now though,
tagging is the most important feature to me because I already have a
huge library of already-converted videos without extensive metadata.
Am I missing something? This seemed so easy in the previous version
and now its nearly impossible (short of converting it to another
format). If it was just the extra steps, that would be frustrating
but I could live with it. Instead, it seems like there's got to be
something obvious that I just am not seeing if I want to mass add (or
even add to just one) metadata to an existing, already imported,
correctly formatted video.

Ken

[Jendrik Bertram]

Hi Ken,

what you want to do is still possible, just handled a bit different to allow for more flexibility.

After you add the videos to iFlicks using the scripts (the way you are already doing), you can modify the metadata. Now, make sure that the preset is set to "Flatten to QuickTime Movie" (the default) and press "Start". That way iFlicks will just update the metadata in iTunes.

Hope this helps.

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[Kenneth Linger]

Thank you for the quick reply.  I knew that this had to be something relatively easy that I was just missing.  Your instructions did exactly what I needed.  I did notice that not all metadata is being updated back to iTunes (while it was in the old version).  For example, I have several TV shows that came back with "cover art" in iFlicks but when the iTunes files were updated at the end of the process, the cover art just shows a frame from about 5-10 seconds into the film (iTunes default).  In others, sometimes the description doesn't get updated back to iTunes (and then, when I try again several hours later on the same file, it does get updated).  Not sure if this is an iTunes error (just need to quit and restart iTunes) or something with the newer version.

Again, thanks for all the help.

Ken

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Jendrik Bertram <jen...@iflicksapp.com> wrote:

Hi Ken,

what you want to do is still possible, just handled a bit different to allow for more flexibility.

After you add the videos to iFlicks using the scripts (the way you are already doing), you can modify the metadata. Now, make sure that the preset is set to "Flatten to QuickTime Movie" (the default) and press "Start". That way iFlicks will just update the metadata in iTunes.

Hope this helps.

[ER]

It doesn't seem to let you just edit/save the metadata, even with the
way you described. I already have all my videos converted through
HandBrake for the AppleTV and when I try and save just the metadata,
it keeps exporting a new version of the movie. I just want it to save
the metadata back to the working version I already have.

Thanks,

Eric

[Jendrik Bertram]

Handbrake only creates .mp4 or .m4v videos for you. In order for iFlicks to write metadata to the videos it has to create .mov files. You can then edit the .mov files in place.