Can I create fanart for home movies?

[tahoetim]

I have some dvds of archived home movies. Is there a way to easily create fanart for them?

I am running SageMC and Imovies set to the fanart fixed option.

Thanks

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by tahoetim

I have some dvds of archived home movies. Is there a way to easily create fanart for them?

I am running SageMC and Imovies set to the fanart fixed option.

Thanks

You should probably move this discussion to the SageMC section of the forums....

Anyways, I have created Fanart for a few movies I have. It's easy, just get an image you want to be the background, and save it in the directory named after the home movie in the movies part of the fanart directory.

[tahoetim]

I tried that but I placed it in the phoenix folder. (I'm just a consumer so I may not have the folder name correct).

[jaminben]

You can also do a screen grab whilst your playing your movie and it'll save this as a fanart background in the correct folders. Thats if your using SageMC, I'm not sure about the default UI.

[matt91]

Originally Posted by jaminben

You can also do a screen grab whilst your playing your movie and it'll save this as a fanart background in the correct folders. Thats if your using SageMC, I'm not sure about the default UI.

this is a great trick. I use it sometimes when I can't figure out what the correct folder name should be. [Let SageMC grab a frame, write out the folder, then I can download "real" fanart to that folder (assuming that it's for a movie with fanart out there on the internet).]

[tahoetim]

Thanks guys. I have been using the screen grab with TV shows but I didn't think it worked for movies. I'll try it again...

Will it do the box cover art? I guess I can look in the fanart folder of other movies and see how to rename one to be the box cover.

[MacDaddy]

Mike explains in this post that DVDs won't work with the screen capture. http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...23&postcount=4