If you want full control over the information that is added to your videos, you can use the ‘Use manual metadata’ option on the Metadata main window. Click the ‘Metadata Editor’ button to add all information for the videos you are about to add. Note that all videos you are going to add will end up with the same data (except for their name of course).

Video kind Add videos to the Movies, TV Shows or Music Videos section of iTunes

Show Name of the TV Show. Note that also movies can have a show name.

Season Season number

Episode Episode number

Year Production year

Automatic season and episode numbering With this option enabled, your video files will be numbered according to how they are arranged in Finder. Each new subfolder is seen as a new season, and each video file as a new episode. They are numbered according to their alphabetical order in Finder. For instance, a video named ‘Lost S2E5.avi’ will only be numbered as season 2, episode 5, if it is the fifth video in the second folder it encounters.

Restart episode numbering for each season Specify if each season will start with episode 1

include season numbering in show name Include the season number in the show name so they are listed separately in iTunes. As a result of enabling this option, each season will be listed as a completely different show.

1. ‣Basics

Include episode number Include the episode number in the video name. With this option, each episode will be named label #number - episode name (e.g. Episode 1 - How it all started).

Include file name Include the name of the file in the video name

Clean up file name This option will automatically clean out any unwanted fragments.

Include text include an additional label in the video name

1. ‣Video Name

Set video artwork Add an image to your videos. Click the ‘Select Image’ button to choose an image from your computer or drag one on the preview window.

1. ‣Artwork

Genre Movies and TV Shows in iTunes can be classified according to their genre

Tagline A Short description shown next to videos in list view in iTunes

Description Full description of the video

1. ‣Description

Check for online updates Add the URL of an online source. This only applies when you save the current settings of the Metadata Editor as a Preset. If this preset is loaded when using Automatic Metadata, VideoDrive will check for updates and overwrite any information of the Description tag. This is useful when adding the same episodes of a TV show over time.

1. ‣Online

the Import main window

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