2023-12-19, 07:13
Just some thoughts about this new feature.. This is my first time in this thread and I have not read all 22 pages before posting this so I apologize if these points have already been raised...
1) How do you intend to handle cases where more than one label would apply? For example, if there's an extended version and an extended version with an alternate ending, or an extended director's cut? Or say a US theatrical release and non-US theatrical release(s)? In these examples just simply using "Extended" or "Theatrical" isn't accurate enough and won't properly cover the different versions. The same is true for remasters of special versions.
2) What about cases where there's a unique non-"standard" version like Mad Max: Fury Road (Black & Chrome edition), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Collectors Edition), movie's where there's an X year anniversary edition of different versions?
3) What kind of future-proofing is built into the design? Will users be able to add their own custom-defined version labels? Is the version value itself a string or a point to an array item?
I think video version support is a great feature to have, and it should be robust enough that it can handle anything no matter how obscure. What makes the most sense to me as an end-user is having the version field for each file be a string. You can select >= 1 from a pre-defined list. You should also be able to add your own custom versions to that list and/or have the ability to modify the string that gets stored. I think limiting or restricting the user's video version options would be an unnecessary and bad design flaw. I just hope the end result has been well-thought out and capable of satisfying all the users version labeling needs now and in the future.
Again, my apologies for voicing these concerns if they've already been resolved.
1) How do you intend to handle cases where more than one label would apply? For example, if there's an extended version and an extended version with an alternate ending, or an extended director's cut? Or say a US theatrical release and non-US theatrical release(s)? In these examples just simply using "Extended" or "Theatrical" isn't accurate enough and won't properly cover the different versions. The same is true for remasters of special versions.
2) What about cases where there's a unique non-"standard" version like Mad Max: Fury Road (Black & Chrome edition), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Collectors Edition), movie's where there's an X year anniversary edition of different versions?
3) What kind of future-proofing is built into the design? Will users be able to add their own custom-defined version labels? Is the version value itself a string or a point to an array item?
I think video version support is a great feature to have, and it should be robust enough that it can handle anything no matter how obscure. What makes the most sense to me as an end-user is having the version field for each file be a string. You can select >= 1 from a pre-defined list. You should also be able to add your own custom versions to that list and/or have the ability to modify the string that gets stored. I think limiting or restricting the user's video version options would be an unnecessary and bad design flaw. I just hope the end result has been well-thought out and capable of satisfying all the users version labeling needs now and in the future.
Again, my apologies for voicing these concerns if they've already been resolved.
