How to add an overlay for 4K movies?

[humble quarry]

Hi!
I'm running PMM on Windows 10, no docker and following the wiki I managed to add the 3 collections from the guide.

Now, I just want to add an overlay for my 4K movies, but when I'm adding those lines in the Movies.yml and then run the script, nothing happens.

Lines :

collections:
4K Overlay:
plex_search:
all:
resolution: 4K
item_overlay: 4K
build_collection: false

Here is where is the overlay : C:\Users\Tangs\Plex-Meta-Manager\config\overlays

[remote wren]

Please share the yml file and your redacted config.yml file please

[humble quarry]

here they are

thank you for helpin me 🙂

[remote wren]

I deleted your config because you shared your tokens and api keys. Please go and change them all to remain secure

That being said, metadata_path is for collections. overlay_path is for overlays.

Your movies.yml is based on collections as well. Remove the template reference. Collections should say overlays

You also need to specify where the path to your overlay image is,

https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/home/guides/defaults.html?highlight=Overlays

[humble quarry]

there : C:\Users\Tangs\Plex-Meta-Manager\config
There is no Overlays.yml , do I need to create one?

[remote wren]

libraries:
  Movies:
    metadata_path:
    - git: PMM/actor
    - git: PMM/genre
    overlay_path:
    - remove_overlays: false
    - git: PMM/overlays/imdb_top_250
    - git: PMM/overlays/ratings

This is from the wiki link… does this make sense to you?

Top section is for your collections

Bottom part is for your overlays

In your case, you created Movies.yml file and are applying it in the metadata_path which would create collections, however, you want to apply overlays

So create a file and call it resolution.yml so that it can apply resolution based overlays…and in your case, that 4K image

And then in your config.yml, under the overlay_path section, reference your resolution.yml file.

[humble quarry]

Like this :
overlay_path:
- remove_overlays: false
- git: PMM/overlays/imdb_top_250
- git: PMM/overlays/ratings
** - git: PMM/overlays/resolution**

[remote wren]

Well no… because your file is not on the git repo… it’s your own file

    overlay_path:
    - remove_overlays: false
    - file: config/metadata/overlays/resolution

[humble quarry]

and within the resolution.yml file i'll add this :
collections:
4K Overlay:
plex_search:
all:
resolution: 4K
item_overlay: 4K
build_collection: false

i did it, now it is re doing the overlay for the 250 imdb movies, then I hope it will add the 4K overlay

[humble quarry]

maybe there is a way to avoid PMM redoing the top 250 imdb overlay each time i'll update the script?

[remote wren]

Well… I don’t know what you kept in the example. It was only an example… you need to tailor it to your needs.

[humble quarry]

there is a Top 250 IMDB movie collection that was automaticly created when I run first the script.
Running the script again is making PMM check again every movies of this collection saying for each one "Overlay Update Not Needed"

[remote wren]

You don’t need it if you don’t want it… just empty out the metadata_path section so it only has what you want as collections

[humble quarry]

Ok, I'll remove it

About the path of my resolution.yml , it is located here : C:\Users\Tangs\Plex-Meta-Manager\config

So in my config.yml, I'll have to write it like this ?
overlay_path:
- remove_overlays: false
- file: config/resolution.yml

[remote wren]

When you run PMM, how do you tell PMM where your config.yml file is? That path is where you will want to start to tell PMM to apply your overlay image from

And as well, where PMM will look for your local copies of your local and personally created yml files

So the above “may” work, but I have no way of knowing for sure as it’s based on your setup… but it definitely “could” work. I would need more details on your setup… usually hints are found in your meta.log file when it finds or doesn’t find things

[humble quarry]

I'm sorry, but anything I am trying is failing...

The overlay .png is there : C:\Users\Tangs\Plex-Meta-Manager\config\overlays\4K.png
The overlay file is there : C:\Users\Tangs\Plex-Meta-Manager\config\Overlays.yml

Inside the Overlays.yml i wrote just this :
4K Overlay:
plex_search:
all:
resolution: 4K
item_overlay: 4K

Inside the config.yml file it is like this :
libraries: # This is called out once within the config.yml file
All Movies: # Each library must match the Plex library name
metadata_path:
- file: config/Movies.yml # This is a local file on the system
- folder: config/Movies/ # This is a local directory on the system
- git: PMM/chart/basic # This is a file within the https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager-Configs Repository
- git: PMM/chart/imdb # This is a file within the https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager-Configs Repository
overlay_path:
- remove_overlays: false # Set this to true to remove all overlays
- file: config/Overlays.yml # This is a local file on the system
- git: PMM/overlays/imdb_top_250 # This is a file within the https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager-Configs Repository
TV Shows:

Am I missing something? Because I don't see what I am doing wrong

[remote wren]

When you run the above, there is a log file called meta.log that is created. Please share here

The good news is that the PMM defaults are working… so you know you have a valid setup… it’s your customization items that you want to get working… so we are close.

[humble quarry]

Yes, I think I'm close. Once I'll manage to do it, I think i'll anderstand much more how it works

Here is the meta.log

[fringe marsh]

item_overlay is the old method for applying overlays

this is what you want in your Overlays.yml

overlays:
  4K:
    plex_search:
      all:
        resolution: 4K

[humble quarry]

It worked ! Thank you very much for your help 🙂

[fringe marsh]

Awesome!

I'll close this post 🙂