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Contribution Bible Has a Mistake? (Minimum resolution for season posters)
posted by tmdb24407783STAFFMOD on September 22, 2018 at 9:06 PM
The contribution bible says that :
Season posters have a minimum resolution of 400x578px.
However when I click the "Add Poster" button for a season of a tv show the pop-up screen says:
Posters must meet the following criteria:
A maximum resolution of 2000x3000
A minimum resolution of 500x750
One of these has got to be wrong, no?
Reply by Banana
on September 22, 2018 at 10:18 PM
The pop up thingy is misleading. The minimum resolution is lower for season posters and episode backdrops.
Reply by tmdb24407783
on September 22, 2018 at 10:53 PM
Lol, k. So basically a mistake ;p
Reply by Banana
on September 22, 2018 at 11:10 PM
Yeah, maybe a little oversight! The same text seems to be used for all posters and backdrops.
Reply by tmdb24407783
on March 11, 2019 at 1:17 AM
I think it should be fixed; it's the reason why I'm only now adding episodic backdrops to tv entries. That pop-up is misleading and now I know there is at least one show that I know of whose network's website has closed and isn't archived (on wayback machine) that probably had episodic backdrops available that I could have added had I known that the minimum resolution is lower.
Reply by talestalker
on March 12, 2019 at 6:31 AM
Wait, if I understand you correctly the actual minimal image size for TV episodes is 400x225 pixels as stated in contribution bible, not 1280x720 pixels as presented while uploading episode backdrops on TMDB?
Reply by tmdb24407783
on March 12, 2019 at 10:11 AM
Huh?I meant *had there not been a pop up thing that confused me. It's easy to forget a sentence in the contribution bible if there is conflicting info in the editing interface. Either that... or I had considered adding episodic backdrops before learning about that sentence in the contribution bible... and did not go back to it after learning before it was too late (before the website closed down).Yes, that's right.