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gbeberman
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May 9, 2024
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LRC: Auto Create Video Thumbnail/Poster on Import

  • May 9, 2024
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Currently a thumbnail of a video file is automatically displayed only when the drive containing that video file is attached. LRC will display the first frame in the video. If the drive is unattached, an empty frame is displayed unless a manual process is executed to select and apply an image to be the poster/thumbnail.

 

This proposal requests that LRC automatically import that first frame and save it as the video thumbnail for display when its drive is unattached.

 

We use LRC as an index to many, many drives containing images and videos. We search for shots and clips in it and then go to the drive to work with those objects. Being able to see the some representation of the object is critical to knowing if we want to work with it. And LRC is great on that front with still images.

 

This proposal would save us the overhead time of manually selecting poster frames for the many video clips in which the initial frame is descriptive enough for us to understand the clip's content.

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johnrellis
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May 9, 2024

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"Currently a thumbnail of a video file is automatically displayed only when the drive containing that video file is attached. LRC will display the first frame in the video."

 

Hmm, I'm not seeing that in my LR 13.2 / Mac OS 14.4.1:

 

Which version of LR and operating system?

 

 

 

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    gbebermanAuthor
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    May 10, 2024

    I'm on LRC 13.2 and Mac OS 14.4.1.

     

    The difference may have to do with how you and I import. Here, we have a very large photo library across many hard drives and SSDs. We overwhemingly use LRC as an index into those drives—never for image editing—and use the ADD option on import. This leaves the images and videos in place and does not migrate any of them to be local to LRC. As I understand it, if you use an option other than ADD, you would not experience this issue.

     

    This is what I see for video files when the source drive is not mounted:

     

    And when a source drive is mounted:

     

    Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding something.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    May 10, 2024

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    In my test, which I repeated just now to verify, I used Import options Add and Build Previews: Standard to import from an external USB drive:

     

    The behavior you're experiencing is clearly a bug. But if we can't produce a recipe to reproduce the bug reliably in other configurations, Adobe isn't likely to pay attention to the bug report, unfortunately.

     

     

     

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