Let me see if I can help out.

Let's take a good example, Courtney Cox Arquette.. (or however you spell it)

She would be listed in the first season of Friends as Courtney Cox because at that time, she wasnt married to David Arquette (or for the sake of this example lets assume thats the truth, I dont really keep up with these things). And she was listed in a movie that was produced last year as Courtney Cox Arquette (I dont know the name of a movie, so just go with me on this).

The functionality of the credited as feature will work as designed if the Credited As field contains the Exact Name that the actor was credited as in the movie. So in the case above, in Season 1 of Friends, Credited As would be Courtney Cox. And in the case above in Movie Produced Last Year, Credited As field would be Courtney Cox Arquette. For what the master name is, it is should be her original name, Courtney Cox.

If we use the Credited As field in this way, every where in the season 1 of Friends, you would see Courtney Cox. In the movie produced last year, you would see Courtney Cox Arquette. And if you clicked on her name in either cast listing, you would see both DVDs.

The credited as field is a way of creating an alias of sorts.

I dont know if this helps at all, and I definitely dont claim to have Ken's understanding of DVDs or the program, but I am hoping this helps at least a little. If it doesn't and you still have a question, post a specific question again and I will try to answer it and clear this up. I appreciate all your support. Ken is still working on the server, otherwise he would probably jump in and try to clear it up more quickly than I am doing. I know alot of you posted questions above, so fire away if they are still unanswered.

-Gerri

Both fields get uploaded to the server.

-Gerri

No, they wont bring them up unless it is aliased.

I know that isnt a descriptive answer, let me try this...

In the cast edit window on the listing on the lefthand side, only Courtney Cox would be listed. Courtney Cox Arquette would show up on the right hand side in any DVD that you typed in Courtney Cox Arquette into the Credited As field. But Courtney Cox Arquette would not listed in the left hand side as a possible Cast Member. The "non-Master" name would not be listed there.

Does that help?

-Gerri

For right now, we dont have a hard and fast rule. I think what we have to do in these cases, is do what makes the most sense. From my perspective, since most people are going to recognize Samuel L Jackson vs Sam Jackson, so maybe we should use Samuel L Jackson.

We are open to suggestions about making some hard and fast rules about this if you have some ideas.

Oldest name, lowest number of letters, most commonly used in DVDP today, looks better on the screen, able to mix up the letters and make the most words with it, rhymes with cat...

-Gerri