Setting a customized thumbnail to my video using Adobe Premiere CC 2017

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April 18, 2017
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Hello

I'm on a PC - Windows 10 OS - ADOBE PREMIERE C 2017, and I made my video and saved it to my desktop. When I look at the video on my desktop I see that it has a thumbnail that does not match the main contents of my video. Therefore; I want to create my own thumbnail for that video and set it to it so that wherever I have this video of mine (whether on my desktop, shared in social media ... etc.) then it displays the customized thumbnail that I have set for it. I know that Premiere can take a snapshot of any segment of the video to be used as a thumbnail, but can it also set that same video to use the selected snapshot image from it to set it to its default thumbnail?

Thank you

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Correct answer David Arbor

Poster frames aren't set in the video, they're set by the container or application that opens the video. QuickTime 7 used to let you choose a poster frame, QuickTime X doesn't appear to have the same option.

Some sites that you upload videos to will offer the ability to set a custom poster frame, but you would have to upload a separate file. It looks like Twitter sets it's thumbnail of whatever's 5 seconds into your video, which is smart because most videos probably start with black and then it takes a few seconds for some interesting action to start happening.

YouTube and Vimeo allow you to upload images to set as a custom thumbnail, but I don't know Facebook.

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johnivanwhite

Known Participant

This works:

Click the little stills-camera icon under your video preview screen, and save a JPEG or whatever to the folder of your choice. Ignore most of the rest of this video, I haven't a clue what he's on about:

https://premierebro.com/premiere-in-post/adobemasters-how-to-create-thumbnails-in-adobe-premiere-pro

Leo_Laps

Participating Frequently

I wonder why... is it something to difficult for Adobe programmers to set up? Wouldn't it be wonderful if your video came out with the best thumbnail for EVERY app or web platform you would use it?

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whatfictionisthis

Participant

Agree with rchrdgrace. And Kevin - why don't you create a feature request - your Adobe staff and you are part of this discussion?

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firasa24190261Author

Participant

The thing is, for example - Youtube - does indeed allow you to set a thumbnail BUT for displaying it there in their list of available videos, but as soon as you download that video from Youtube in your desktop then that thumbnail goes away and another random one gets selected by your PC, and this is not what I want. I want a way that I can set my thumbnail for a video once and for all.

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David Arbor

Inspiring

Well like I said, the thumbnails, if one is shown, is decided by the player or video container (if the container supports that feature). YouTube takes your image and uses it as a poster frame, but it's not actually part of the video. So it's not that it's getting lost upon download, it was never applied to the video in the first place.

I know iTunes allows you to set a custom thumbnail, and I believe it's retained on the Mac (again, if your video container supports it), so it might work on Windows. I just did a very quick Google search and came up with this: Edit Thumbnail of individual Video File on Windows 7/8/8.1/10 - YouTube which simply implies that you change the artwork/poster frame in iTunes and it will apply it in Windows. Give that a whirl.

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rchrdgrace

Participant

Seriously, it's completely ridiculous that Adobe Premiere doesn't let you set a thumbnail. At the very least, the thumbnail should be the first frame that appears.

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David ArborCorrect answer

Inspiring

Poster frames aren't set in the video, they're set by the container or application that opens the video. QuickTime 7 used to let you choose a poster frame, QuickTime X doesn't appear to have the same option.

Some sites that you upload videos to will offer the ability to set a custom poster frame, but you would have to upload a separate file. It looks like Twitter sets it's thumbnail of whatever's 5 seconds into your video, which is smart because most videos probably start with black and then it takes a few seconds for some interesting action to start happening.

YouTube and Vimeo allow you to upload images to set as a custom thumbnail, but I don't know Facebook.

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filmonaday

Participant

and to make the whole thing worse...once you've set your poster frames in your O/S - be that Mac or Windows etc - when you upload it to Dropbox, they change it back to the DEFAULT thumbnail making all your efforts into a complete waste of time! Sigh!