Video Thumbnails using Time code

You’ve had the ability to either upload an image of your choosing or to use our player and pick a frame of your choosing. But it dawned on us that most of you probably know the frame you’d like to use, well before you upload your video to XR because you spend some time editing your videos.

 

So the next time you're editing you videos make a note of the time code of the frame you'd like as the thumbnail that best represents your video because we now provide a way for you to specify the time code (in the format 00:00:00.000 - notice, that’s right down to the milliseconds!) at the time of uploading your video or anytime during or after the transcoding process. How cool it that!

 

The "thumbnail" page now also includes the time code option in addition to the pick a frame and upload a file options from before. This is really cool because you can tweak it as much as you want till you get it exactly where you want it. This is a, “must play with it” kind of thing.

 

 

We hope you all use this new feature in addition to our other thumb nailing options because we have a lot of statistics that inform us that a video with the right thumbnail gets viewed many more times than when it did not.

 

 

This new feature forced us to extract the frame from your videos independent of our transcoding process, so we decided to generate thumbnails before we start the transcoding process but in order to prevent confusion, we overlay an in-process image. So now while you videos are being processed you and others will see a nice thumbnail rather than a bland in process image.

 

After the first version of your video has been transcoded we'll replace it with the normal