How to import a movie collection from EMDB

With Movienizer you can manage your movie collection while creating your own movie encyclopedia. However, if you have a considerable movie collection in another database program, you will find it boring to enter all the movies once again manually.

In this case, it is much easier to use importing.

First, you should export your collection as text from the source program. In EMDB, click "Options".

Go to the "Export / Printing" options. Choose "Comma separated file" as export output format. Make sure that semicolon ";" is used as "Separator character".

Now, check all fields that you want to export. Click "OK" to close the window.

You will be back to the main window (the first screenshot). Click "Export" on the toolbar.

The program will prompt you to enter filename and browse to the folder where you want to save the exported file.

Enter some name and click "Save". Remember the location where you save your file.

After a successful export, close EMDB. Launch Movienizer. Click "Tools" - "Import from text file".

In the importing tool, browse to the previously saved file, or enter its path and filename manually. Choose "Semicolon" as delimiter. Click "Preview".

In the "Field" column, we can see some data. As we can recognize, it is information about some movie. This means that our text file doesn't contain field names. Let's uncheck the "First row contains field names" box and select appropriate values from the dropdown lists in the "Value" column.

When finished, preview the results and click "Import". Movienizer will start adding movies to the active database. It will take some time, depending on number of movies that you have exported. A progress bar will be shown.

Finally, close the "Import" window and enjoy managing your personal movie collection in Movienizer.

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