How do I select the Poster Frame when exporting to video?

I was looking for an answer too and found a solution which works perfect in windows 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZMFFUsnzU

It's called tag editor. Link for download:

https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor/releases

I tried it 30 min ago. Happy!

Guys, I was suddenly invited at the very end of a project to 'stop that picture of me appearing on the file'

Yeah, suddenly I was in Poster Frame Hell.

After some headless chicken time I checked out an absolute favorite of mine MP3tag, and for MP4 files it works a treat.

and it works - you can find out how to do it but its really really simple to do - I was in a rush, I used the snipping tool to grab the frame I wanted and MP3tag did its stuff...

can we ask for this to be built into media encoder

Chris

Sounds good, but I can't find in AME a preset that allows you to export a still image "alongside your video."  Could you clarify which preset I should be looking for?

"You can create standalone JPEG images from PP using the camera icon below the monitor and can semi-automate the export of a still image alongside your video using presets in Adobe Media Encoder..."

Was searching for the answer to this very question and this community discussion from 2012 came up first in organic search results.  I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2020.

Setting the poster frame is done in the project panel.

Select Icon view (bottom left corner third icon from left) in your project panel.

Hover over your project video thumbnail/icon in your project panel.

Move your mouse over the video thumbnail/icon until you see the desired poster frame.

Right mouse click and select Set Poster Frame.

I remember good old QuickTime Pro used to be able to do this, there was actually a "select poster frame" in the settings.

The only setting of poster  frames I've found in Premiere is for internal use, i.e. setting the poster frame of clips in your bin so you can quickly see what they are about. But no exporting the final clip with a specific frame, unfortunately. One would think this would be a simpe task for such a gigantic suite of apps, but... no.

In a project I recenlty did for Social Media I ended up instructing the client (who will be uploading the film) how to select a poster frame on YouTube and Facebook. I just hope they do it right.

Also looking to solve for this, i'm creating a lot of short videos to be released on social media, i can't set the poster frame in Hootsuite for instagram for buisness which means each and every file has to go through a third party program to resolve.

Do we know if this is in the pipeline to be fixed at all? (and if not can we add it to the backlog?)

I came here looking for the same information.  it boggles the mind that this is not easily baked in, and left to Youtube or whatever hosting service is being used.  I don't want my client choosing, I, want to choose what gets used as the video thumbnail no matter where they publish.  I use Google drive for distribution for clients because they can preview videos in the browser before downloading and re-uploading to their choice of services. 

I'm sort of looking for an answer to this too. To say it's not a function of a video encoder is absurd. I need to change the settings of a video file; what other kind of program would I use?

I personally am trying to upload stock to Getty and this is how they choose thumbnails. They supply a doc for using QuickTime Pro 7, but I can't find any similar function in QuickTime X or really any other program. I don't want to pay for QTPro7 just for this one barely-working function.

For reference, Getty's instructions say in QuickTime Pro 7 to go to View->Set Poster Frame, then to move your playhead to the beginning so QuickTime doesn't lose its mind (I'm paraphrasing), then File->Save.

This should really be a feature of Premiere / Media Encoder. I'm not sure what other services support it (Vimeo? YouTube? Wistia?), but it would be super-helpful if they do for the sake of explaining thumbnails to clients.

You might not want to hold out til you find it. A poster frame is not a function of a video encoder.