Setting a project poster

The project list shows a poster for each project, so you can pick out the one you’re looking for at a glance. For a project Oropod doesn’t host, you set the poster yourself, by adding an image to the project’s own files. Today that means Frame.io projects.

A project on Oropod Storage has its own poster, set by whoever manages the project, and Oropod ignores any image placed as described here. A source you add on your own device never sets a project’s poster.

Setting the poster

In the project’s top-level folder:

1. Create a folder named .oropod
2. Add your image to that folder, naming it poster.jpg

Both names have to match exactly, in lower case. An image named Poster.jpg or poster.png, or placed anywhere else in the project, has no effect.

The poster appears in Oropod on the next sync, usually within a couple of minutes.

Choosing an image

• Use a JPEG, since the name has to end in .jpg
• Oropod shows posters in portrait, in the proportions of a film poster (2:3), and crops images of other shapes from the centre to fit

Changing or removing the poster

In Frame.io, upload the new image to the same folder, also named poster.jpg. Frame.io keeps it as a new version of the existing file, and Oropod always uses the newest version.

To remove the poster, delete poster.jpg. The project falls back to a plain placeholder, since Oropod never picks a project poster automatically.

Tips

• Oropod hides the .oropod folder everywhere else, and never shows its contents as clips or when you browse the source’s files.
• In Frame.io, loading the poster in the app needs the same “Edit & Share” access to the project as the clips do. With view-only access, the app shows the placeholder instead. See Frame.io troubleshooting.
• The frames shown behind days, scenes and shots are something different, and Oropod picks them automatically. See Poster frames.