Movienizer is a database management tool used to organize your collection of favorite movies. It's also capable of generating reports and statistics based on your movie collection database.
I find the application interface to be extremely easy to use. It has a movie navigation panel on the left side, the main display screen right next to it and the Tab Menu on the top. Although it has 4 skins to choose from I noticed that they don't modify the color on the top of the screen which, to be honest, could be more colorful and contrasting.
Moving on, each movie from your collection has a description where you can find more details about the movie (like synopsis, budget, director, writer), actors, the received awards (if any exist) and also shots from the movie.
Furthermore, you can write your own description of the movie, you can store your own rating and because the database is continuously updated you can find any information about the movie in a few seconds.
With the new 9.1 version, it's now possible to sort the list of people by the last name and download user comments from the internet.
All things considered, Movienizer proves to be a comprehensive movie database organizer embedding a set of very useful features, but, in my opinion, costs too much.
v7.1 [Mar 26, 2014]
[!] Added custom fields and lists for persons.
Custom fields and lists for movies were available in the movie organizer for a long time. In Movienizer 7.1, these additional fields are also available for people. Now you can add more information about actors, directors, screenplay writers, composers. For example, we use one custom field as "Eye color" and a custom list as "Tags", names and values of custom fields can be edited in the same way as in the custom fields for movies. In the "Edit info" window for persons, a new tab is dedicated to custom fields.
[+] On the "Search" tab, it is possible to search for movies that are not in the collection.
In Movienizer, there are movies that belong to your collection (have the "In collection" flag set) and other movies (for example, movies from filmographies). Previously the "Search" tab offered only two possible options for the "Status" field: in collection or in database. If the latter option was selected, the program found both movies that were in collection and movies that were not. Thus it was not possible to search only for movies that were not in collection. Movienizer 7.1 adds a new option.
[+] Saving size of the "Add movie/ Add person" windows.
It is possible to change size of the "Add movie" and "Add person" windows by dragging their borders. Movienizer 7.1 keeps your adjustments between sessions.
[+] Added a hotkey combination, Ctrl+D, to open the Dune catalog wizard for the current movie.
You can create information pages and covers for your Dune HD media player for all your movies. Alternatively, it is possible to create such pages and covers just for the current movie. Movienizer 7.1 adds a new hotkey combination that allows doing this quicker. Just open the page of some movie and press Ctrl + D.
[+] In the "Customize collection" window, a new variable, %40, is available. It can be used to create "Date added" entries.
The new variable allows creating a combination where your movies will be sorted in the order you added them into Movienizer. For example, we created the "Date added\Movies" entry. However, this also allows creating more complex (multi-level) entries, as required.
[+] When adding movies from files, an existing movie cover can be used as the main cover.
If you have correct movie covers stored beside your video files, you can allow Movienizer using it instead of the cover that it downloads from the internet. Just enable the corresponding option in the "File scanner settings".
[*] In the "Add movie / Add person" window, the focus is automatically set to the field where you enter information.
When you opened the "Add movie" or "Add person" window in a previous version of Movienizer, the focus was set to options. Thus you needed to click on the text field to start entering movie titles or names. Movienizer 7.1 allows to start entering titles and names faster.
[*] On the toolbar, width of arrows that open dropdown lists is increased.
Movienizer 7.0 introduced bigger toolbar buttons. Subsequently, we received some requests to increase size of the arrows that opened the dropdown lists with options. This was adjusted in Movienizer 7.1.
[*] On the "Collection" tab, movies from movie series are sorted by their number in the series.
Another tweak of Movienizer 7.1 refers to the "Collection" tab. In particular, its "Movie series" entry. Now movies under this entry are sorted by their number in the series.
[-] Fixed creating a movie catalog for Popcorn Hour.
Movienizer 7.1 fixes a problem with passing credentials to the Popcorn Hour media player.
[-] Fixed counting number of movie series in the statistics.
The "Statistics" window now shows the number of movie series in the current collection for the "Number of movie series" entry. Previously, the general number of movies in all movie series was displayed.
[-] Fixed saving the selected state of the "Replace descriptions / biographies when downloading info" option.
On the "Download options" tab of the general settings window of the program, you can choose whether to replace descriptions and biographies when you download information. With this option enabled, descriptions and biographies are replaced by newly downloaded data. If you disable the option, downloaded descriptions are added to the existing ones. Previously, Movienizer did not save your selection, if other than "Custom settings" option was selected on the top. This is fixed in Movienizer 7.1.
[-] When creating a Dune movie catalog, in the "Directors" category, all people are now processed instead of only those who have photos.
Movienizer 7.1 fixes a small bug in the logic of the Dune movie catalog wizard. This refers to the "Directors" category.
[-] When using several tabs, correct files can be played from the toolbar for the selected tab.
[-] Fixed adding people that are actors, directors and screenplay writers at the same time.
[-] Fixed other bugs.
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