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Adding tv series with dividers
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantatle78
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Hi, does anyone know a faster way to put in the cast I've already used in the other dividers so I don't have to write them all down every time? I've tried to copy and paste but that won't work. This will take along time if I'm gonna write every cast member for every divider.
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Hi, does anyone know a faster way to put in the cast I've already used in the other dividers so I don't have to write them all down every time? I've tried to copy and paste but that won't work. This will take along time if I'm gonna write every cast member for every divider.

Copy it to the clipboard, insert that in the editor of your choice and you'll see the cast in XML.
Now c&p yourself senseless, the structure looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<CastInformation>
  <Title>$DVD_Title</Title>
  <Actors>
    <Divider Caption="$Text"/>
    <Actor .../>
    [...]
    <Divider Caption="$Text"/>
    <Actor .../>
    [...]
  </Actors>
</CastInformation>

cya, Mithi
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Have you tried copying the cast from the cast window DVDP & pasting into a bog-standard TXT file? this gets you the HTML code which you can then cut-and-paste and add dividers as you wish, finally copy & paste the whole lot back into DVDP.

Edit: Yup, just like Mithi says.
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If you are comfortable in XML as text Mithi's method will work.  I use it a lot myself.

If you have Excel and want to not see all the tags when copying/pasting/editing consider Goodguy's Excel template
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Hi, does anyone know a faster way to put in the cast I've already used in the other dividers so I don't have to write them all down every time? I've tried to copy and paste but that won't work. This will take along time if I'm gonna write every cast member for every divider.


If you have MS Excel, you can use my Credits Editor (see this thread) to easily edit cast and crew data.
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Copy it to the clipboard

Ya know, that's pretty damn nifty!
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I have never used XML before so I'm gonna check out Excel.
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This might sound stupid, but I can't find the clipboard. Otherwise this program looks great Matthias!
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The clipboard is part of the Microsoft Operating System (Windows or Vista). It is the place that the operating system stores data temporarily when you copy or cut data so that you can later paste it somewhere. You don't need to know where it is, just how to use the copy/cut and paste functions.
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An alternative to goodguy's Excel-tool (e.g. if you don't own Excel) would be probably the DVDProfiler Cast & Crew Editor.
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I know that Telecine, but when I tried to paste it into DVDpro I just got the message that I had nothing to paste. 
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I know that Telecine, but when I tried to paste it into DVDpro I just got the message that I had nothing to paste. 


Is it possible that your security settings in Excel do not allow the execution of macros? You can check this in Excel under Extras/Options/Security/Macros (this is an example of Excel 2002, German edition)!
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I know that Telecine, but when I tried to paste it into DVDpro I just got the message that I had nothing to paste. 

Are you using the Copy button Goodguy provides on screen? 

I brain froze once and used the Excel Copy (Edit | Copy) function and it was rejected when i tried to Paste.  I used the Copy button on screen and it worked.
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