Yes, it should work on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Submit an issue if you have any problems!

Not at all. The only Python you'll need is typing python ... to run the Maker.

If you've installed via git, navigate to your installation folder (where main.py lives), and execute:

git pull origin

If you installed via Docker, you can execute docker pull collinheist/titlecardmaker:{tag} (where {tag} is master or develop), or just recreate the container.

Not at all. ImageMagick is the behind-the-scenes tool used by the Maker to create images, but after you've installed it you can never touch it again as far as the Maker is concerned.

No, it does not.

Although I have not tested the Media being on another drive or network location, so it's possible there are untested issues.

By default TCM tries to get images from TMDb and then Plex, this is adjustable via the global image source priority option. To get images from Plex only, set this to plex; to make this happen faster (instead of after the default 5-days) change the TMDb retry count option.

In your global preferences file (likely called preferences.yml), under options, there is an option called filename_format which can be set to change the format of all cards created by the Maker. You can read about this here

YAML (sometimes referred to as YML) stands for yet another markup language or YAML ain’t markup language and is a human-readable data-serialization language. In simpler terms, its a file format for writing and storing information. Files written in this format are used by the Maker for internal processes, as well as external configurations such as the preferences file or series YAML files.

YAML is written frequently throughout the Wiki, and looks like:

something:
  something else: 123

another thing: 234

The original YAML file extension is .yaml, however some old OS's did not support extensions longer than three characters, so this was shorted to .yml. These two are now used interchangeably.

A datafile is YAML File used by the Maker to read and write information about an episode for use in title card creation. These files are stored in the top-level source directory, created and updated automatically by the Maker, but are human-readable and can be edited manually if desired.

An example of a datafile is:

data:
  Season 0:
    1:
      title: Some Special
  Season 1:
    1:
      title: Pilot
      abs_number: 1
    2:
      title: Second Episode
      abs_number: 2