Choosing thumbnail

[Kai201]

Hello, I was just wondering does media encoder allow you to choose a thumbnail from video you export?. I know that You Tube has this feature. 

Thank you

[gerikp · Accepted solution]

No, it does not.

[Shivangi_Gupta]

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in. As the expert mentioned, this feature is not available in AME as of now. However, you can always share your suggestions with our engineering team here: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911308-media-encoder

We'll make sure it gets more eyes.

Regards,

Shivangi

[David Arbor]

As was already mentioned, AME can't do this, but just to clarify, do you want to be able to select a frame to upload to YouTube as a thumbnail, or do you just mean you want to be able to pick a thumbnail for your video for any player, Windows Explorer, or macOS Finder? If the latter then just FYI that thumbnails aren't ever stored in a video, the player is the one that picks these. Some players will automatically default to 50% of your video, others will pick something 5 seconds into the video to avoid showing black, but YouTube is actually creating an image (or you upload your own) and displaying that, rather than showing part of the video.