The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from each other. We strongly recommend separating movie and television content into separate main directories. For instance, you might use something like this:

/Media
   /Movies
      movie content
   /Music
      music content
   /TV Shows
      television content

Warning!: Plex will do its best to appropriately find and match content. However, a failure to separate content such as movies and TV shows may result in unexpected or incorrect behavior.

If you have trailers, interviews, behind the scenes videos, or other “extras” type content for your movies, you can add those. To use these, ensure they are named and organized, and that the Local Media Assets source is enabled and ordered correctly.

Related Page: Cinema Trailers, Extras, & Related Albums

Enable Local Assets Plex Movie Agent

If using the current Plex Movie agent you only need to enable “Use local Assets” in the libraries advanced settings

Related Page: Advanced settings Plex Movie Agent

Enable “Local Media Assets” (Legacy Agents)

For the Personal Media, Plex Movie (Legacy) and The Movie Database legacy agents, “Local Media Assets” is an Agent source that loads local media files or embedded metadata for a media item. To do this, ensure the Agent source is enabled and topmost in the list:

1. Launch the Plex Web App
2. Choose Settings from the top right of the Home screen
3. Select your Plex Media Server from the settings sidebar
4. Choose Agents
5. Choose the Library Type and Agent you want to change
6. Ensure Local Media Assets is checked
7. Ensure Local Media Assets is topmost in the list

Related Page: Metadata Agents

Adding Local Trailers and Extras

When you have your own trailers or extras media files, you can organize them in one of two ways to use them with Plex. Either put them “inline”, alongside the movie (in the same directory as the movie), or in a subdirectory of the movie’s directory.

Tip!: When extras are added after the movie already exists in your Plex library, you will likely need to trigger the Refresh Metadata action for the movie to have the new content picked up.

Note: If you’re making use of multiple editions for movies, you need to make sure that each edition is stored in its own named movie directory. The local trailers and extras can then be placed inside that specific edition folder, like normal. See information on naming movie files/folders.

Inline

Local extras can be located alongside the main movie file in a directory named for the movie. They’re indicated by using specific naming at the end of the filename. Local inline extras will be detected and used if named and stored as follows:

• Movies/MovieName (Release Date)/Descriptive_Name-Extra_Type.ext

Where -Extra_Type is one of:

• -behindthescenes
• -deleted
• -featurette
• -interview
• -scene
• -short
• -trailer
• -other

Note: The filename must end in the -Extra_Type value exactly. The hyphen is important and you cannot have spaces between the hyphen and word.

Tip!: Besides the extras themselves, you can only have the main movie file (or other local media assets like artwork or subtitles) in the directory. If you have multiple versions of the movie together, use the “Organized in Subdirectories” method below.

It is recommended that you provide some sort of descriptive name for the extra before specifying the type at the end of the filename.

/Movies
   /Avatar (2009)
      Avatar (2009).mkv
      Arrival-scene.mp4
      Bar Fight-deleted.mp4
      Performance Capture-behindthescenes.mkv
      Sigourney Weaver-interview.mp4
      Stephen Lang-interview.mp4
      Teaser Trailer-trailer.mp4
      Theatrical Trailer #1-trailer.mp4
      Theatrical Trailer #2-trailer.avi

Organized in Subdirectories

You can organize your local extras into specific subdirectories inside the main directory named for the movie. Extras will be detected and used if named and stored as follows:

• Movies/MovieName (Release Date)/Extra_Directory_Type/Descriptive_name.ext

Where Extra_Directory_Type is one of:

• Behind The Scenes
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Interviews
• Scenes
• Shorts
• Trailers
• Other

It is recommended that you provide some sort of descriptive name for the extras filenames.

/Movies
   /Avatar (2009)
      Avatar (2009).mkv
      /Behind The Scenes
         Performance Capture.mkv
      /Deleted Scenes
         Bar Fight.mp4
         Lost Sister.mkv
      /Interviews
         Sigourney Weaver.mp4
         Stephen Lang.mp4
      /Scenes
         Arrival.mp4
      /Trailers
          Teaser Trailer.mp4
          Theatrical Trailer #1.mp4
          Theatrical Trailer #2.mp4