One of the most important aspects of a movie collection manager is how movies are added to the program. This can be a very uncomfortable process if you need to hack in all the movie data manually, or very comfortable if the software does that for you.

Filmotech offers several options in this regard. It is still possible to add a movie manually to the database. You can speed things up however by searching for a movie title or part of a title on the Internet.

The program displays matches in the very same window. Selecting a movie from the list displays all movie information in a table like form. You can use these information to compare your movie with the selected on. Filmotech downloads a movie poster automatically which can be added to the movie database as well. It often lists ten, twenty or even more movie posters that you can select one from.

One interesting aspect here is that you can select the information that you want to add to the movie in the database. If you do not want to add a poster or description you can uncheck the checkbox to do so. It is furthermore possible to edit fields right away in case you want to add information to the movie.

You can add multiple movies at once under Import. Support are imports from files like xml, csv or plain text files as well imports from Ant Movie Catalog. A disk scan option is available as well which you can use to scan a folder on the hard drive for movies. These movies are then automatically added to the database. You may still need to look the titles up on the Internet, but that’s done easily by selecting a movie a movie and a click on the Internet button afterwards.

Export options are provided which can be handy if you want to access the database on multiple systems. Information can be exported as XML and CSV files or in XMBC compatible format.

Each movie can be edited individually once it has been selected in the main interface. All editing options are divided on three tabs. The movie tab lists standard information like the movie title, actors, country, rating and description.

Media Information lists detailed information about the movie media, from the disc format to editions, languages, subtitles and bonus content. Links to the movie trailer (on Youtube for instance) and the actual movie can be added to the listing as well.

Lending information are listed on the third tab of each individual movie. An overview is available under the Lent button at the top.

Three additional core features are available that I’d like to mention briefly:

Statistics – You can access all kinds of movie statistics, for instance about the average runtime, the popular genres or ratings.

Cover Printer – you can create and print custom covers for all movies in your database.

Publish – It is possible to publish the movie collection on a remote server so that it can be accessed from the Internet.

Filmotech is without doubt one of the best movie collection managers. You can download the free program from the official website.

HD Trailers Downloader crawls the popular hd-trailers.net blog for the latest movie trailer releases and downloads them automatically. A configuration file can be used to define the quality preference (1080p, 720p or 480p), download location or automatic deletion of trailers. The downloader will by default download movie trailers in 720p if available, or in 480p if not. Movie buffs with fast internet connections might want to edit the configuration to add 1080p for the best quality possible.

A double-click on the executable will open a command line window that details the progress of the downloads. It will display the current movie trailer being downloaded and status messages to inform the user if trailers or other videos have been skipped or successfully downloaded.

The program recognizes already existing trailers, which are skipped automatically. It can also resume previous sessions to download trailers which have not been downloaded completely the last time the program was run.

HD Trailers Downloader is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system. The program seems to require the Microsoft .net Framework but there is no information on the homepage regarding this requirement. It can be downloaded from Codeplex.

The Google Chrome extension IMDB Plus tries to remedy the situation by embedding movie trailers from Youtube into IMDB movie pages.

The functionality is available right after installation. Each IMDB movie page contains a link to view trailers right beneath the movie title. Clicking that link will display the movies on the same page so that they can be viewed right there without having to load an additional page.

The movies are embedded on the page which means that they all can be played right away.

The View Trailers link is also shown on other pages of IMDB including the top 250 movies of all time listing or the frontpage. These movie trailers can also be played directly on those pages which makes the service even more interesting as it saves the user quite some time.

The option to view trailers is also available on the actor and director pages so that trailers for the movies of a specific actor or director can be viewed comfortably as well.

IMDB Plus is available at the Google Chrome extension repository. It is compatible with Google Chrome 4.

We have covered means to download hd movie trailers with software programs for the Windows operating system before including the HD Trailers Downloader, Apple Trailers Downloads or Saving Movies From Apple Trailers.

We discovered an interesting alternative over at the Download Monkey: Trailer Freaks is a website that is listing hd movie trailers from both the Apple and Yahoo movie trailers website.

Listed are the cover of the movie, links to both Wikipedia and IMDB plus direct download links to the 480P, 720P and 1080P movie trailers on the Apple and Yahoo Trailers website. Each movie trailer can be downloaded directly by right-clicking the link and selecting the save as option. The size of the movie trailers varies but can easily reach 100 Megabytes and more if the 1080p versions are downloaded.

The Trailer Freaks website lists the newest movie trailers on the start page. Additional movie trailers can be accessed through the alphabetic category listing on the top. Users who regularly download movie trailers can subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates whenever new movie trailers are listed on the site.

Everyone should however notice that most of the full movies and tv episodes are only available to US viewers. Pretty much everyone else will see a grayed out inactive Watch It button on the movie pages which could be confusing for some users who might believe that they could watch the movie but are missing something, for example a user account at IMDb.

The main reason for this move is that most content comes from other streaming media services like Hulu which are also only available to US viewers or those who know how to use a VPN to view the contents.

There seems to have been some recent changes as well which are great for all users. Trailers and clips of movies are now prominently displayed on the right side and everyone can watch them without restrictions. That’s an interesting feature for many users who used to visit the Apple Trailers website to see the latest movie trailers.

It adds a little box to the right lower corner of the screen with direct download links to the movies. The box appears when you open a page on Apples website with the trailer links that would play in your browser.

It happens from time to time that the box does not appear because of a custom site that was designed for a movie. This is not a problem at all. Just click on the movie that you want to download and the box appears right when the movie starts to load.

Let me explain the process of installing the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox and the Apple Trailer Download script for it. Install the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox following the link given above. You do need to restart Firefox first and install the Apple Trailer Downloads script after the restart.

Once the extension and the script have been installed you can visit Apples Trailers page and download all the trailers that you want. Just remember to load the movie if the box does not appear by itself.