Preparing all my 'media' for Aeon?

Oh and I get all my posters from http://www.movieposterdb.com you have to pay to get the full res but I have found the "preview" size to be fine for my application.

It's good that someone brought this up as I'm working a lot with thumbnails at the moment. Personally, I prefer the most authentic posters possible, though I'll go for teaser posters if they have better artwork. A lot of the time they use the best art for the teasers and roll out the usual floating-heads stuff for the final - the Harry Potters are good examples. I also use the poster for the movie's native territory where possible - the South Korean one for Oldboy, for example, or the French one for Leon.

I'm keeping the details under wraps but Aeon One (I'm calling it that for the moment) uses 1080p poster artwork for certain screens. So that's 1080px high by whatever it is wide. I went through all my movies (about 350) the other day and grabbed new posters for them, cleaning them up in PS. The results are pretty hot, especially once you put 'em in day-to-day use. I'd strongly recommend doing the same. And no, the preview size from movieposterdb.com will not be sufficient if you want the best results - not here, at least.

Here are some examples to make things clearer:

Thanks for the info. I actually meant to host the image you were attaching because I'm getting a hotlink error, but then I realized it was because I'm going through a proxy.

I'm definitely going to do this when I get off of work tonight. I will probably just rescan my whole library so I don't need to manually update all of them. When I rescan should I still use the imbd scraper, and will it use the local copies by default if I do the name convention correctly? What about scraping nfos? I guess I should read through the documentation for this shouldn't I?

djh_ Wrote:I'm keeping the details under wraps but Aeon One (I'm calling it that for the moment)

Do you mean stark or alpha 14?

Does any one want to pool some money and get an account at movieposterdb.com?

Nice Djh_

what kind of modifications did you made with PS ?

Does this mean that I'll want to have all of my posters in 1080p by the time Stark is released?

I feel a new screenshot coming.

I want to make sure I get the terminology correct. Can someone confirm this:

Backdrops

• cycling background images when browsing the main menu.
• only used by certain skins
  

Thumbnails (poster)

• the icon for a particular TV show or Movie
• Movie - poster or DVD cover (depending on the skin)
• TV Show - banner or poster (depending on the skin)
• Used in the various Library media views in both the Project Mayhem skins and in Aeon
• tbn files (can be different resolutions depending on your theme and screen resolution)
  

Fanart

• background images that display when navigating through a particular TV Show or appear according to what movie is currently selected
• XBMC feature
• Used by both one of Project Mayhem's Library views and Aeon's views
  

Edited 1/02/09 2:18pm to remove Aeon dependency for Backdrops

It's not essential to have all your posters in 1080p. It's probably inadvisable if you insist on running it on Xbox. But it's for the best if you want maximum goodness.

And I'm calling Stark "Aeon One" because it reflects my original vision being completed. It's the first proper version which will make the old alphas obsolete. When it's released it'll just be "Aeon". So there you go.

backdrops that cycle are in no way exclusive to AEON. AEON might have been the first, but other skins do this as well.