Trivia slides format questions

Posted June 1Jun 1

I'm working on a trivia pack based on the Get The Picture daily questions from the AFI website.

Couple questions...

Is JPG the preferred format or would PNG be better?

What's the ideal resolution for trivia images?

For each question, I want to have 3 slides: question slide with answer options; answer slide with correct option highlighted; fact slide with further info about the movie in question. So it would be QUESTION -> ANSWER -> RELATED FACT.
What's the best way to name these files? Are fact slides kept separate from questions? If so, would it work to label the answer slide with _C1 and the fact slide as _A so that I get the right sequence of slides?

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1920x1080 JPG is the preferred resolution/file format. 4K PNGs may technically be better, but for 99% of images the quality difference will be minimal (<10%) compared to a significantly larger file size (>15 times larger).

Just for clarification, there are 2 separate things that could be considered fact slides. There are stand alone facts images that are just single images with some detail that can be named anything, except ending in q, a, or _c#.

And then there is what you are describing ,which is a fact at the end of a Q&A trivia image series. The current version of PreShow on the site doesn't have an option for fact slides with Q&A, but 0.3.4.3 introduced _f for doing exactly what you are referring to. I'm not putting this version on the site because I am working on database updates and every new version requires people to delete their database and redo all their content. As soon as I finish this line of development in regards to the database, I'll add 0.4 to the site with all the changes, including the _f files for facts at the end of Q&A.

I'd prefer that you use the _f for your facts, but for people that haven't updated to a version with it it would currently play the fact separately from the Q&A. We can always go back and rename them after the update if you want to use a clue format as the answer and the answer format as the fact.

I'm going to be going back to some of the legacy trivia and updating them, which will include some additional slides and metadata. My standard format for Q&A trivia will be: