Today I going to give examples of and describe the features and usage of the JHS Season sheets as of v0.9.1.
My season sheets are designed to be used with episode based seasons.
PRIOR MENTIONED FEATURES:
It contains many of the same features as the Movie Sheets do. I will give a brief list of these items and if you wish to know more about them, you may browse to my Movie Sheet Blog Post to read up further on their specifics and usage.
- Dynamic Media Info Boxes - This is exactly the same as the movie sheets with one exception. Since the season sheet is typically being assigned to a folder, as opposed to a file, in your file system, there is no file size (FSZ) info box for this sheet. Given the maximum amount of data, you have the possibility to have 5 boxes instead of 6.
- Hidden Tags - Exact same feature from the MovieSheets (Subtitles; Tagline).
- Picture and Sound Quality Ratings - Exact same feature from the MovieSheets.
FEATURES NEW TO THE SEASON SHEET
- Episode List - This represents a list of episodes, and it is installed where the two smaller pictures were in the movie sheet. Currently, there is room for 21 single line episodes. Bear in mind if you have episode names take up more than one line, that number will go down. When you do have episode names that are really long and do take up more than one line, you have to be able to compensate for that and move the next episode number to a new line. You do this using the "nl" command inside of your Episode Lists input in Thumbgen. For example:
Episode Names: [Episode A, Episode B, Some Extraneously Long Episode Name That Won't Fit, Episode D, Episode E, Episode F]
Will be displayed like this in the template:
1 Episode A
2 Episode B
3 Some Extraneously Long Episode Name That
4 Won't Fit
5 Episode D
10 Episode E
Episode F
Notice that the Episode List value didn't change even though Long Episode name wrapped around to the next line. I have come up with a way to make this work using the following syntax:
Episodes List: [1,2,3,nl,4,5,10]
Episode Names: [Episode A, Episode B, Some Extraneously Long Episode Name That Won't Fit, Episode D, Episode E, Episode F]
Will be displayed like this in the template:
1 Episode A
2 Episode B
3 Some Extraneously Long Episode Name That
Won't Fit
4 Episode D
5 Episode E
10 Episode F
Currently, adding this newline when an episode name is too long, is a manual process. Eventually, I would like to have this be done automatically for you. Another thing to notice here is the formatting for the numbers that are less than 10. I have put in custom code to right justify this text.
The following two boxes are static. If no value is provided, then they still remain visible. I will change this in a future release in order to make them similar to the Media Info Boxes so that they disappear and center the remaining box when no input is present.
- Season Number Info Box - This box shows the season. [BUG ALERT: There is something going on here in which I have not figured out yet, where regardless of what integer you put into the Thumbgen Season field, it ALWAYS seems to display the season you use in the file name, i.e. S02E16_File_Name.m2ts - regardless of what you put in the season box, season will ALWAYS display '2'. If this turns out to be a Thumbgen flaw, I may introduce a work-around through the comments box at some point in the future.
- Disc Number Info Box - This box shows the value of disc(s) which this season resides on. Because this is not a Thumbgen field, you must use the comments box to introduce this field using the following syntax on its own line:
Valid Input:
disc 10
d 1-4
d DISC!
Other than that, there is no Studio graphic in this one at this time. This is another change I would like to make in the future, since that space next to the subtitles isn't being used anyway. That covers all the specially added and the not-obvious features for the Season Sheets.
