# Struggling with Dynamic Graphics Overlay Tutorial

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**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 1, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/struggling-with-dynamic-graphics-overlay-tutorial/93093 "2021-04-01T14:20:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![MICHAEL\_BEAUMONT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@MICHAEL\_BEAUMONT](https://community.wowza.com/u/MICHAEL_BEAUMONT)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/struggling-with-dynamic-graphics-overlay-tutorial/93093/1 "2021-04-01T14:20:55Z")

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Hi

I’ve trying to overlay timecode onto a stream (which must be a fairly common thing to do…)

So i’ve followed the following tutorial  
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-add-graphic-overlays-to-live-streams-with-wowza-transcoder?432](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-add-graphic-overlays-to-live-streams-with-wowza-transcoder?432)

I’m fairly new to the IDE, but believe i’ve followed it correctly.

However as soon as I add the example module to the application.xml using the following

```
   <Module>
    <Name>ModuleTranscoderOverlayExample</Name>
    <Description>Example Overlay</Description>
    <Class>com.wowza.wms.plugin.transcoderoverlays.ModuleTranscoderOverlayExample</Class>
</Module>

```

Once I restart the server i get lots of the following errors in the log

> WARN server comment 2021-04-01 13:52:32 - - - - - 129.326 - - - - - - - - Application folder ([install-location]/applications/_defapp_) is missing

and the “Live” app stops working.

The code is exactly as is in this here [https://www.wowza.com/downloads/forums/transcoderoverlayexamplefiles/TranscoderOverlayExampleFiles.zip](https://www.wowza.com/downloads/forums/transcoderoverlayexamplefiles/TranscoderOverlayExampleFiles.zip)

The ModuleTranscoderOverlayExample.jar is in the /lib directory, and has build sucessfully.

Using WSE v4.8.5

Any pointers?

Thanks

Mike