Movie Explorer Pro

Movie Explorer Pro

By Ron Elemans

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2018-12-17
  • Current Version: 2.6.3
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 39.33 MB
  • Developer: Ron Elemans
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 10.15.7 or later.
$22.99 On itunes

Description

Movie Explorer Pro is by far the most comfortable way to catalog and explore your digital movie files and discs. Once your collection has been indexed, a world of new possibilities opens. Browse through the wonderful movie thumbnails views. Enjoy original poster art work and high res movie stills. Mark movies as watched, add others to the Watchlist. Add your own smart filters to the sidebar, based on simple or complex criteria. And so much more! Get started quickly • Add movie and TV show files by indexing your local drives and network shares • Add Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD and DVD discs by scanning barcodes, using the built-in FaceTime camera • Or simply add your discs by using an external USB barcode scanner • Scanning and validation of barcodes can be done in batch modus, for maximum efficiency • TV show files and discs are also fully supported Track what you’re watching • Mark movies and episodes as watched, or unwatched • Use global filters to show only unwatched, watched or Watchlist items • Rate and review movies and episodes, and filter on your own ratings • Add movies and episodes to the Watchlist for easy access • Automatically update the Watchlist when you set an episode to Watched • Sync Watched, Paused and Watchlist status with Trakt.tv Find and play what you like • Find movies using the search box, or one of the many sidebar filters • Search for an actor or director and find all other movies you own with this actor or director • Play movies using the default media player • Or use any other media player, using the ‘Play with’ feature Explore for more • The special Info view shows you all movie metadata, actors and more in a separate window • Enjoy original poster art work and high res movie stills using the Gallery view feature • Open directly the related IMDb page for a movie, show, actor or crew member • Files view shows you important details like video format, bit rate, audio channels and much more Highly customisable interface • Hide the filters you don’t like in the sidebar, add Queries and Lists you want • Add handy filters for Ultra HD Video, Spatial Audio, Duplicate Discs and more • Adjustable movie thumbnail size and data sorting • Display TMDb rating, your personal rating or no rating at all • Option to let the sidebar show the number of unwatched movies for each filter • Optionally display TV show and season banners in the TV Shows view Define your own filters and lists • Add your own custom filters to the sidebar, using Queries • With a Query, you can interactively define your own selection, using multiple criteria • Use Lists to make your own collections of movies, shows, actors, directors and more • Queries and Lists can be separately exported to PDF, HTML and CSV Share your collection • Export your complete collection, or a selection, to beautifully designed PDF or HTML files • The generated HTML files are publishable on your website, without the need to modify anything • Or export your technical collection data to a CSV file, compatible with Excel and Numbers • Share individual movies to Mail, Messages, Notes and any other supported standard share option • Lend Blu-rays and DVD to friends, and keep track of what you've lent out, and to whom State of the art • 100% native macOS app using standard interaction controls • Runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs • Touch Bar support for all main views • Full Dark Mode and Accent color support • Keyboard friendly navigation and interaction • Reads technical metadata of your files using the MediaInfo library of MediaArea • Technical metadata includes Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HDR10+ • Uses movie metadata provided by TMDb Support and feedback If you need support with this app, please visit the online documentation and support pages, or mail to support@betamagic.nl to get in contact with the developer. Please send your comments, ideas, tips, suggestions, complains or compliments to feedback@betamagic.nl. Thank you!

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Reviews

  • Excellent Movie Library Catalog Application

    5
    By Roger-SJCA
    Movie Explorer Pro (v2.5.3) is an excellent app that allows you to track all of your HD-DVD, DVD, 3D, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, iTunes, and Ripped TV/Movie Titles on the MacOS platform. The metadata that you can add for physical media is quite extensive, including Runtime, Image Aspect Ratios, Number of Seasons (for TV Shows), Audio Codecs, Subtitles, Purchase Date (Amount Paid), Condition of the Discs, etc. You can also track Titles that you have shared (Loaned) with your Contacts and add specific Comments about the contents. In addition, you can also track the Titles that you've watched via the Watchlist feature. Movies and TV Shows are tracked separately with vivid, rich Poster Art. This visual representation of the contents of your Library truly makes it "come alive"! The app works in conjunction with The Movie Database, TMDb, to relate items, using UPC Barcodes, that can be scanned, using the FaceTime camera (or other USB cameras) or manually input by the User. Powerful queries, using regular expressions, (similar to the functionality found with Smart Playlists in Apple Music) can be constructed to slice and dice the contents of your Catalog to varying degrees of organization and specificity. Customer Support has been exemplary! Questions about the product are quickly answered with clear examples, specific steps to follow, and knowledgeable information. This is the best app of its type for tracking all of the Movies and TV Shows in your physical media and stored digital content libraries. A 14-Day Free Trial is available to test-drive the app and determine whether it meets your specific needs. I encourage you to give it a try! You'll be glad that you did!

  • SImply The Best

    5
    By EG Arnold
    This is an incredible App, the best I've seen on any Apple Platform. It's integration to your Apple Library and Trakt.tv make it the perfect companion. I do have a request. When will we get an iPad landscape version? And an Apple Phone version? I'd also like to see the TV Show integration be a more top-down rather than episode based. So we see the Show and then a breakdown of seasons and only if we choose, a breakdown of episodes. But the product is IMPECABLE!!! Thank you!!!!

  • % star for Desktop version

    5
    By drcakmur
    If they had IPAD versiom I would have given them 10 stars without any hesitation. What a shame??? You have to have always your deskyop to consult your database. It would have been great to do itso on Ipad. Cheers

  • Poor Support, But Better Late Than Never.

    5
    By Fustrated in Colorado
    I wrote the original review after being frustrated with what I precieved as a lack of understanding to address the issue I was having. Although I am disappointed at the time it took to finally resolve the issue, it was resolved. While I really like the layout and function of the product, the lack of a real tutorial or manual documentation is fustrating. You would think that detailed documentation would reduce customer service requests? When I contacted support, they were prompt with the reply, but completely missed the question. When I replied, I included multiple screenshots to show the issue, but they continued to give the same answer, which was not a solution to the issue. I have been using and programing computers for 30 years so I hope to keep banging and pounding to find a solution, because customer support is no help. And for what its worth, I paid for the Pro Version.

  • Outstanding Customer Support

    5
    By revmike17
    Not only is this an excellent app to organize and nagivate one's collection (and to do so visually) the support I recently recieved was outstanding, and what has prompted this review. I had an issue which they quickly identified as to be missing Metadata from a TV show. I requested support via the Beta Magic website, recieved a response within hours, and promptly told me the fix (Refresh Metadata). Bingo, problem solved. The folks at Betamagic "Get It." Pleased as punch.

  • Made for what I need.

    5
    By news hog
    I have tons of videos that I have accumulated over the years that I have been trying to keep organized. I gave up trying to use some prior organizers because I was not satisfied with any of them. In the meantime, I used the folders and the directory structure to somewhat keep my files organized. With much time on my hands (C-19), I decided to see if anything new was available to handle this job. After trying several from the App Store (and out), I found Movie Explorer. I installed the free version and tried it out on some of my folders with the video files. It worked great. Just point the import tool (its called New Location for some reason) to your folder and it does the rest including matching your file/movie from TMDB and adding them. As long as your file name somewhat resembles the actual movie name, ME2 can find and match it. Because I liked it so much and I wanted the Pro capabilities, I ended up upgrading to the Pro version almost right away. BTW, the free version has in-app purchases to the Pro version including the free 14 day Pro trial. The other options are for monthly and yearly subscriptions. Or you can buy the Pro version directly if you don't want a subscription to MEP. I did have some questions and indeed found a bug. I contacted the author and he responded right away, answered my questions and got me squared away. I spent a day adding all my video files and MEP took care of organizing the videos so now I know what I have and what I may want to watch. Great app and great support.

  • Not what I was hoping for

    1
    By GJones4796
    I have well over 100,000 TV episodes that I have converted from thousand of DVDs that had bought over the years. I was very happy with iTunes and my ability to use it as a cataloging system. After ripping the DVDs, the episode were tagged and included arranged by seaon. Life was good. As we know, that was all changed. I went in search of an app that would take my fully tagged episodes and pull them into a cataloging system that would present them in a very user friendly manner. I though Movie Explorer Pro would do that. I was wrong. In order to pull from iTunes, I had to have purchased the episode from iTunes. Strike One. Tagged and completely labeled shows are not scanned so to incorporate all the information already embedded in the file. Strike Two. Whatever Database is searched to provide the information does a cursory search and pulls the first thing it comes to. For some reason it labeled many of my shows as animé -- which is odd since I don't have a single episode in that genre. Strike Three. So, it's struck out for me. It was a waste of $25. I will not be using this app.

  • The best Movies & TV Shows organizer!!!

    5
    By Nowaki Green
    User friendly! Effective! Enjoyable! Handle mass data!

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