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How to customize your Plex interface for easier navigation

• Data 17/03/2025
• Autor Gabriel Cocos
• 1
• 294

Personally, I like seeing live TV and free movies from Plex on my homepage, but I totally understand if you just use your library. Admittedly, it can get in the way when it’s the first thing you see rather than your own content. Additionally, if you’re setting up multiple users and parental controls, you may disable Plex’s free content entirely.

1. Open “Settings” (the wrench in the top-right corner)
2. On the left-hand side, choose “Online Media Sources” just below your name
3. Under “General,” you may remove Plex’s live TV, shows, and movies by selecting “Edit” and setting each one to “Disabled”.

You can also disable content that appears on your Discovery page under the “Discover” section.

To make your content much easier to see, or if you just want specific libraries up front and center, you should pin them. This is super helpful if you’re like me and create numerous libraries. I’ve also separated HD movies from Blu-rays I’ve ripped for my Plex server.

1. In Plex, select “More >” on the left-hand side. It’s just below the “Downloads” tab
2. Hover over a library you want to pin. You’ll see three dots appear to the right of it. Click on them.
3. From the drop-down menu, choose “Pin”
4. Leave the “More >” menu and hover over the libraries you’ve pinned to see three dots again. Click on them
5. Choose “Reorder” from the drop-down menu, then rearrange the libraries to your liking.

Now, your content will appear in the order you prefer, from top to bottom. This is particularly useful if you still want to keep Plex’s free content but want it to come after your own libraries.

There are 10 Spider-Man movies—eight live-action and two animated films. Wouldn’t it be easier to have them all in one place rather than scattered across your library? Plex lets you create collections using a tag system. You can fine-tune your collections to include a specific actor, director, writer, or even region.

• You’re welcome to do it manually by visiting each movie and TV show, clicking “Edit” (the pencil icon), going into “Tag,” and typing in a name for your collection in the “Collections” text field.
• Another way is Plex’s Smart Collection feature. Pick a library on the left, then select “Library” > “Add to…” (the plus symbol with three dashes) > “Create Smart Collection.” Using the drop-down menus, you have a list of tags to focus your search. When you’re ready, click “Save As…” and then “Save as Smart Collection.”
• The last option is letting Plex automatically sort your library into collections. Hover over a library and click the three dots. Go to “Manage Library” > “Edit” > “Advanced.” Scroll down to “Minimum automatic collection size” and set it to “2”. That means at least two movies have to share some characteristics for Plex to create a collection.

Whenever you use a Plex client app, you’re welcome to adjust the way it looks. Want less metadata, like Max? Go with the “Classic” layout. Want to emulate Netflix’s interface? The “Modern” layout is perfect. To do that, go into “Settings” > “Experience” > “Content Layout.”

Additionally, you may alter how libraries appear on your homepage by adjusting their order on the left. Highlight a library to reveal a triple-dot icon, and when selected, pick “Reorder” to change its position on your homepage or unpin it completely to hide it for good.

As easy as it is to get Plex set up and ready to go, it does take some tweaking to get it just right, especially with navigation. The option to hide content altogether is definitely helpful, seeing as Plex’s free content is enabled automatically. It’s also nice that you can prioritize libraries and create collections for a cleaner UI.

How to add Bookmarks to video and audio in PowerPoint

• Data 17/03/2025
• Autor Gabriel Cocos
• 5
• 296

You can add bookmarks to videos and audio clips in PowerPoint to trigger animations while the media plays. As well as making your slideshow more professional, this helps draw your audience’s attention to certain details in the video or audio clip.

However, rather than the labels showing for the whole video, I want them to appear and disappear at different points so that they stand out individually and don’t overwhelm my viewers with an overload of information. The way to do this is by adding bookmarks to the video, which can be used as trigger points for the other objects’ entrance and exit animations.

Adding a bookmark to a video or audio clip you’ve inserted in your PowerPoint presentation is straightforward.

• First, select the media item, and open the “Playback” tab on the ribbon.
• Now, in the playback control beneath the video or audio clip, either click “►” and then pause the media at the point at which you want to add the first bookmark, or hover over and click the appropriate position on the playback timeline.
• Finally, click “Add Bookmark” in the Playback tab you opened earlier, and see a yellow circle appear on the playback timeline.

When you continue playing the media or select a different point on the playback timeline, the yellow circle will turn white to indicate that it is no longer selected. Repeat this process until you have added all your bookmarks.

Now that you’ve added the bookmarks to your video or audio clip, you’re ready to use them as trigger points for animations.

• Start by selecting the first object or objects you want to animate. In my example, I want the text box containing the words “Relaxed grip” and the corresponding green rectangle to fade in at the first bookmark.
• So, I’ll select those items together, open the “Animations” tab on the ribbon, and click “Fade.” Notice the numerical labels in rectangular boxes confirming that I’ve successfully added the animations.
• Once you reach this stage, it’s time to link the animation to the first bookmark. To do this, with the Animations tab still open, head across to the Advanced Animations group.
• There, click “Trigger,” hover over “On Bookmark,” and click “Bookmark 1.” The numerical labels I mentioned earlier turn to lightning symbols to confirm that the animation is linked to a trigger.
• Next, I want the same two objects to fade out at the second bookmark. To do this, I need to select the objects again, click “Add Animation” in the Animations tab on the ribbon, and choose the Fade exit animation.
• Finally, with those two objects still selected, click Trigger > On Bookmark > Bookmark 2.

Before you go ahead and add entrance and exit animations to the remaining objects, press Shift+F5 to launch your presentation at the current slide and check that the bookmark-linked animations you’ve just added behave as expected. When you’re happy, repeat the process for each object as necessary. Also, clicking “Animation Pane” in the Animations tab on the ribbon will help you manage the order of the animations, which is especially handy if there are many on each slide.

Unfortunately, PowerPoint doesn’t let you reposition existing bookmarks if you realize you’ve put one in the wrong place on the playback timeline. Instead, you’ll need to remove any stray bookmarks and, if you wish, replace them with new ones.

• To do this, hover over the video or audio clip, and click the bookmark you want to remove from the playback timeline to turn it yellow.
• Now, in the Playback tab on the ribbon, click “Remove Bookmark,” and see the yellow circle disappear from the playback timeline.
• If you add a new bookmark to replace the one you’ve just removed, remember to hover over it to check what it’s called. This will make using it as an animation trigger much easier later on.

Adding media bookmarks isn’t the only way to make your PowerPoint presentation more engaging. For example, creating a countdown timer, using the morph transition, and adding action buttons are all surefire ways to grab and maintain your audience’s attention.