Currently you have multiple descriptions you can use for local media files.
-behindthescenes
-deleted
-featurette
-interview
-scene
-short
-trailer
-other
I suggest you add one more “Alt Version” and it needs to be the first choice or at least the first after Trailer. This would be for director cuts, extended versions, uncut versions, star wars special editions, and the like.
Currently I’m using “Other” and the movie ends up at the end of a long like of behind the scenes extras. I think we need an option to force it to the front and if these line up alphabetically. then maybe Alt Version would be a good choice.
+1 for the simple “AltVersion”. I looked at the Multiple Cuts of a Movie thread and that is a vast train wreck overflowing with every nuance and complexity imaginable. No thanks.
I’ve tried the “split” the then you must go and individually edit each item. The display is now dependent on the metadata. If you migrate to a new computer or you crash and need to rebuild you need to go through the time consuming process again.
This sounds perfect for me. The folder with the name of the movie itself serves as a home for the original / theatrical version. Alternate versions would go into a sub directory AltVersion. Each file would be labeled “DirectorsCut” or “Colorized” something descriptive for each file. The alternative version names would appear above the rest of the “scenes”, “behind the scenes” or “Other”. Best of all when importing the files arranged in this way, then there is no split or metadata manipulation required.
This is simple, to the point and requires little maintenance. They can argue on that thread another decade waiting for an all encompassing solution. PLEASE my collection of old timey colorized movies will thank you.
Until then, I’m going to use Tramp78’s idea of using the -other catagory.
Seems a simple, logical, and easy to implement solution to the problem. “Other” works, but the films end up last after a long list of potential other local assets.
True. If it is an extra, you lose metadata. No Poster. Stuff like that. But I would rather have these director cut versions looped in with the main movie than side by side as they were before. Most of the time they are versions you won’t watch anyway. I prefer the original Star Wars to the special editions, the theatrical Hobbits and LOTR films over the extended Director cuts, the original E.T. and Apocalypse Now to any of the 27 director versions. So those are the movies you get if you just hit PLAY. And the alternate versions are there is you want (even if you have to look through a list of behind the scene making ofs and trailers.
