Adding a Series
Example Series
I'll be referring to Better Call Saul as example Series. If you do not have this Series in your server, you can add it (and remove it later if needed), or just pick an entirely different Series.
Now that TitleCardMaker has established connections to all of your servers, it is time to begin the actual Title Card creation. TCM will only create Cards for Series that have been added - this step is to showcase how to do this manually.
Automatically Adding Series
Manually adding Series is not the typical use-case for TCM, as adding an entire server's worth of Series would be extremely tedious. Automatically adding Series is covered in the next step.
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Navigate back to the TitleCardMaker homepage - this can be done by clicking
Series
from the side navigation bar, or hitting Shift + H (when a text box is not selected). -
On the left-hand side bar, a navigation menu labeled
Add
should appear. Click this to go to the "Add Series" page where you can add both Series and Blueprints. -
For this tutorial, we'll be adding and customizing Better Call Saul. Under
Browse Series
, type Better Call Saul in the search bar and click .Search Source
If your default search connection is Emby, Jellyfin, or Plex and you don't have Better Call Saul in your server, you can choose a different connection, or just search TMDb.
Sonarr Posters Not Loading
If the posters in your search results are not loading (all black), this is a result of Sonarr rejecting TCM's API request to view the poster. You can either disable authentication for local addresses within Sonarr (if using TCM locally), or just ignore this.
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TCM will now query your selected connection for all Series which match that name. Better Call Saul should be the first result. Before you click anything, you may select any media server libraries you want associated with this Series.
Example Libraries
If I had Better Call Saul in a server under two libraries, then I could select either or both libraries in the dropdown so that TCM knows to load Cards into those libraries.
If I did not have Better Call Saul in any of my servers, then I can leave this blank. This can always be changed later.
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Click the search result and TCM will begin processing it. While you are on this page, scroll down to
Browse Blueprints
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Type Better Call Saul in the Blueprint search field and click
. TCM will display all available Blueprints for this Series - at the time of writing, there are 3. For the purposes of this tutorial we will not be importing these, instead we'll be customizing the Cards ourselves. But keep in mind this is one way to find Blueprints.What are Blueprints?
Blueprints are described in greater detail here, but in-short: they are pre-made Title Card configurations that include everything needed to made Cards in a given style. This includes Fonts, Templates, Series customizations, etc.
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Once TCM has finished processing the Series, go to the Better Call Saul Series page in one of a few ways:
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Click the Search box in the top left corner, then search for and select Better Call Saul.
Keyboard Shortcut
You can enter the Search box by typing F or S (for
f
ind ands
earch) anywhere in TCM (when a textbox is not selected). -
Return to the home page by clicking the
Series
button on the left navigation bar, find Better Call Saul and click either the button or the Series name.
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Click the
Card Configuration
tab. In theFont
dropdown, select theBetter Call Saul
font we created earlier. This assigns this custom font (and all of it's associated settings) to Better Call Saul. Scroll down and click .
Success
You've now manually added a Series to TCM, as well as assigned a custom font. After the tutorial is completed you can review the cards created for BCS and see how this font is applied.