Distinguish between Theatrical and Director's Cut

[RedBaron164 18]

So I have two copies of Army of Darkness, the US Cut and the Director's Cut. I'd like to have them both in Emby but I'm not sure if or how I can have Emby mark the Director's Cut as such. I have two copies of Terminator 2 as well and was never able to get that to work properly. I've tried just affixing "Director's Cut" to the filename but haven't had much luck with that.

 

I checked the wiki and it was more geared towards different versions as in 1080p/720p/3D and not Theatrical/Director's Cuts etc. The only thing I can think to do at this point is add them in and manually make all the changes to the Metadata.

Edited October 31, 2016 by RedBaron164

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

The system only cares about different resolutions. It doesn't care about different cuts. I have had to treat each one as its own movie and manually identify them. So each cut gets its own folder, images, metadata. Then once you have the title properly set up you have to lock the metadata or the next scan will revert it.

[RedBaron164 18]

Yeah, that's what I've had to do. Luckily, I don't have many films in this situation so I don't mind manually editing the metadata for the one off film here and there.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

You put them in separate folders like this:

\Army of Darkness (1992) [Theatrical]\Army of Darkness (1992) [Theatrical].mkv

\Army of Darkness (1992) [Director's Cut]\Army of Darkness (1992) [Director's Cut].mkv

 

They'll both be detected as Army of Darkness.  Edit the title in the metadata editor to label them as you wish.  I suggest you also edit the posters to choose distinctive ones.

 

Add the two movies to a custom collection called Army of Darkness, though in that specific case you'd probably dump both in the Evil Dead Collection.

 

That's worked perfectly for me in all similar cases.

[legallink 187]

I treated it differently with adding the other one as an "Extra".  Perhaps not ideal, but generally speaking, I wanted them both accessible in the same screen as my choice of director's vs theatrical always seems to be last minute, and less about I want to watch X movie X version....more....ooooohhhh that movie sounds good.  Do I want the extended/director/theatrical version?  As an extra it is all up on the same screen of where I press play, and I use the version I prefer the most as my base movie.

 

Just a thought.