High Quality Cover Art and Trailers?

[Dizzy49 99]

I have just moved to a brand new server and it redownloaded all metadata and images.  I have noticed that the cover art isn't as crisp as what I had previously.  I **THOUGHT** I had something set or a plugin or SOMETHING that pulled only high quality cover art.  Is that a thing, or am I imagining it?

Similarly, when it showed trailers before movies they were 1080 or 4k.  It looks like what I'm getting now is VHS quality.  It's terrible!  I didn't see a quality setting in the Cinema Intro plugin.

Thoughts?

[Luke 42083]

Hi, example?

[Dizzy49 99]

On 9/25/2023 at 4:41 PM, Luke said:

Hi, example?

 

I would say about 1/2 of my movie covers are lower res that I would like.  The middle one is OK, but the other two are not great.

The trailers ALL look like these two.

[slevin7 86]

For the images, you could put FanArt on top in the settings, because there, at least my experience, the images are provided in higher resolution.
In the Procurer setting (I think), increase the minimum width to 1280 and the images should all look good again after a rescan. 

[Luke 42083]

16 minutes ago, slevin7 said:

For the images, you could put FanArt on top in the settings, because there, at least my experience, the images are provided in higher resolution.
In the Procurer setting (I think), increase the minimum width to 1280 and the images should all look good again after a rescan. 

Agreed on fanart having better images.

[Luke 42083]

Regarding trailers, we are looking into it. Thanks.

[Dizzy49 99]

On 9/26/2023 at 11:32 PM, slevin7 said:

For the images, you could put FanArt on top in the settings, because there, at least my experience, the images are provided in higher resolution.
In the Procurer setting (I think), increase the minimum width to 1280 and the images should all look good again after a rescan

The settings already has 1280 for everything, I did bump FanArt up to the top though.  I'll repull some images and see how they look.

[blgentry 51]

From experience with digital media of all types:  If you want high quality cover art, you need to review all of them yourself and pick new ones (maybe just higher quality versions) for the ones that don't meet your approval.  In many cases the covers picked will not reflect what you think they should look like because you have a particular cover in mind and there are many different looking ones available.  

 

This can be kind of fun if you see it as a way to make your collection really be yours.

 

Brian.

[Ronstang 294]

1 minute ago, blgentry said:

From experience with digital media of all types:  If you want high quality cover art, you need to review all of them yourself and pick new ones (maybe just higher quality versions) for the ones that don't meet your approval.  In many cases the covers picked will not reflect what you think they should look like because you have a particular cover in mind and there are many different looking ones available.  

 

This can be kind of fun if you see it as a way to make your collection really be yours.

This.....my collection is mostly older movies, sometimes really old and it seems for some reason that younger people like sterile cover art devoid of all writing and someone loads it in Photoshop and just erases it all.  This looks really BAD.  Plus, it is called cover art by many because it used to be art and the writing etc. is all a part of that.  I want my posters to be as original as possible and many times all you can find in hi-res is images that are faded, darkened and/or with fold marks.  I load these into Paint.net and correct all the problems.  I start with the highest resolution poster I can find that is the highest quality and closest to original.  After I touch them up or simply change the exposure/brightness/levels I simply resize them all to 1000x1500 for emby and save the orginal resolution file into the media folder also in case I decide I want it later.  

This way I always have not only the highest resolution posters but the cleanest and closest to original that are available.

[rbjtech 5284]

11 minutes ago, blgentry said:

From experience with digital media of all types:  If you want high quality cover art, you need to review all of them yourself and pick new ones (maybe just higher quality versions) for the ones that don't meet your approval.  In many cases the covers picked will not reflect what you think they should look like because you have a particular cover in mind and there are many different looking ones available.  

 

This can be kind of fun if you see it as a way to make your collection really be yours.

 

Brian.

... and then COPY or BACKUP all the files so they can be easily restored.  One click of Emby with suitable rights will replace them all again ... 

[Ronstang 294]

1 minute ago, rbjtech said:

... and then COPY or BACKUP all the files so they can be easily restored.  One click of Emby with suitable rights will replace them all again ... 

LOL...yeah, I found this out a couple years ago when I was new to emby.  Now I have backups of the entire folder including the movie and all artwork etc. on a different drive.  PLUS the first thing I do when I set up a new library is to make sure that the images are put into media folders.....which should be the default....default....default.  Let those who like to have different artwork upon a file scan change it.  Makes no sense not to have it set to default that images are placed into the media folder especially considering how particular most here are about all the work we have into emby.

[Maisy 37]

My settings are 1280 and fanart on top for each library. I get fanart images say, when I add something or refresh something, but they are small images and look bad on most devices. I have to manually change everything. Goes for Movies and TV shows/seasons and Music artist and album covers. It's very sad to see such small graphics auto chosen in this modern era.

Manually checking there are no small sizes like that to even pick usually. FWIW