First Impressions
The first impression is everything. An attractive thumbnail that represents your videos will draw people to watch them. You’ve always had the option to upload an image to use as the thumbnail that best represents your video, but we’re going it make it even simpler.
How it works
Here’s how this feature will work.
- You watch your video
- Pause it on the frame you’d like to use as the thumbnail.
- Click the button that says “Make Thumbnail”
This process takes a few seconds (10-20 seconds), so wait for a few seconds while we extract that frame from your video and generate the multiple sizes of thumbnails we require (5 sizes in all) and you’re done. So, Watch your video, pause and click a button, couldn’t be any simpler!
You’ll still have the ability to upload an image of your choosing like you can do today. We think this ability is important enough to leave alone. But for those of you who don’t know how to extract a single frame from your videos in the correct aspect ratio, this new feature is just what the doctor ordered.
Note: You have to watch the HD version (or the largest version) of your videos in order to use this feature, because we’ll need an image that’s at least as large as the largest version. This also means that you'll have to wait till the largest version of your video has finished transcoding before you can do this.