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User episode pictures cap vs official episode pictures

puffosul wrote 2 years ago: 1

Hello,

What episode pictures have higher priority: user submited caps (1280x720 with network logo for example) or official episode pictures (1920x1080 without the network logo) :) I'm asking this,  because I was asking someone why he was uploading pictures that have lower resolution than the official site's pictures and the response was quite... interesting :D https://www.tvmaze.com/users/69829/nikquest/talk 


JuanArango wrote 2 years ago: 1

This is from the Data Policy, so both can be used :)

The episode gallery can be used to submit images from the episode. Images here should be an actual scene from the episode. Official promotional images may be used, provided they have exactly the same composition as shown in the public release. That means "behind the scenes" images cannot be used. Since gallery images should be taken from the actual episode, their aspect ratio should be the same as on the show itself. This is usually widescreen, e.g. 16:9.


david wrote 2 years ago: 1

Indeed. What we write about episode summaries pretty much applies here as well:

Neither form is preferred over the other; replacing an official summary with a hand-written one is welcome if the hand-written one is of a higher quality, but doing so is not a goal in itself.

E.g. having "hand-made" instead of official screencaps should not be a goal by itself.

Generally, the higher the resolution, the better. But of course it can be (albeit subjectively) the case that one image is much better/more representative of the episode than another, despite the lower resolution.

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