.MP4 thumbnail image

[Rosemary A]

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 

[Igor]

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.

[jmG-06100]

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/

 

[denisb]

Hi,

If we put a thumbnail image in the video file metadata, PTE don't show it. Windows 10 show this thumbnail.

 

Denis

[jmG-06100]

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.

[Rosemary A]

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

[jmG-06100]

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/.

[Rosemary A]

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

[jmG-06100]

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).

[Xenofex2]

I think one of Barry Beckham's 'Five Minute Videos' may have the answer.

Checkout No 057 - 'Select Your Own MP4 Video Cover'.

 

[jmG-06100]

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