Rosemary A Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 Hi All Can anyone please explain how to get the 1st frame of my video to be the thumbnail image? At present I get a random picture from the video. Thanks, Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hi Rosemary, Do you mean thumbnail images of video clips in the File panel of the main window in PTE AV Studio? If I remember rightly, PTE displays a video frame from 0:03s time position, because the first frame usually contains a back picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmG-06100 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Igor, To be able to actually CHOOSE which frame is selected for the thumbnail is already a request for a future version. Depending on the way that I generate an MP4 file (with or without Hardware Accceleration) a different image is chosen. Indeed, the first frame is often a BLACK screen and that should not be the default thumbnail. https://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/topic/22663-choice-of-video-vignette/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denisb Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hi, If we put a thumbnail image in the video file metadata, PTE don't show it. Windows 10 show this thumbnail. Denis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmG-06100 Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hi Denis How do you edit the video metadata to have MS/Windows show the selected frame? That is what I would like to do. The same applies to the TV menu to select a video from a USB key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted February 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Thank you everyone. I was trying to get the first slide of the slideshow to be the thumbnail on the .mp4. Something like the Menu in Producer. I think if I set the blank slide at the beginning to 0.3 seconds I should achieve the result I want. I shall give it a try anyhow. Regards, Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmG-06100 Posted February 4, 2020 Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 Hello Rosemary If you have a version of Adobe/Lightroom available, you could finalise your project with PTE and then open the resulting *.MP4 file with Lightroom and select the frame to be used as thumbnail, as briefly described in the other topic: 22663-choice-of-video-vignette/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted February 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 jmG-06100 thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately I do not have Lightroom or any of the Adobe products. Hopefully in a future edition of PTE this will be an option. Regards, Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmG-06100 Posted October 5, 2022 Report Share Posted October 5, 2022 Hello everybody I have just tried my suggestion to Rosemary, but it does NOT work: Lightroom can be told which image to display for a given video, but that is a feature within Lightroom and the original video file is not changed: Same vignette as before. Definetly a feature I would like to find in a future revision: to be able to choose which image in the video appears in the MS/Windows explorer (or Finder with Mac). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenofex2 Posted October 5, 2022 Report Share Posted October 5, 2022 I think one of Barry Beckham's 'Five Minute Videos' may have the answer. Checkout No 057 - 'Select Your Own MP4 Video Cover'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmG-06100 Posted October 5, 2022 Report Share Posted October 5, 2022 Many thanks, Xenoflex2 (and to Barry of course) as that's exactly what I was looking for. MP4 Cover or Vignette or Icon or Thumbnails... Different words for the same topic in this case. That makes the "search" a bit difficult Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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