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LucaL  
#21 Posted : Friday, November 13, 2020 10:15:03 AM(UTC)
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All of my videos have fades, so 1st frame is useless.


Play your videos until a meaningful part and pause them
Use the "restart with transition" feature



That works somewhat, but is just a lame workaround. This is an easy fix and I agree it should have been done already.
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#22 Posted : Friday, November 13, 2020 6:55:05 PM(UTC)
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#23 Posted : Saturday, December 19, 2020 8:11:46 PM(UTC)
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Yeach. so many years of developing very good software with this one big minus about thumbnails.... with 6 is okay but what if i have 30 similars thumbnails.... omg

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#24 Posted : Saturday, December 19, 2020 8:20:01 PM(UTC)
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Yeach. so many years of developing very good software with this one big minus about thumbnails.... with 6 is okay but what if i have 30 similars thumbnails.... omg



Give them more simplified names, should have too ;-)

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#25 Posted : Sunday, December 20, 2020 9:43:26 PM(UTC)
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yeach... do you have time to reading little titles when live is on air ? Im not have time for this... its only one feature what is missing in vmix to make vmix full prosfesional software
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#26 Posted : Sunday, December 20, 2020 9:52:55 PM(UTC)
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yeach... do you have time to reading little titles when live is on air ? Im not have time for this... its only one feature what is missing in vmix to make vmix full prosfesional software


merely pointing out that unless one has multiple custom thumbnails, that based on part of the footage that it also can be confusing as are long names instead of shorter ones . Luckely we have shortcut options etc available
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#27 Posted : Monday, December 21, 2020 8:54:46 AM(UTC)
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+1 for this feature, it would be very useful
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#28 Posted : Tuesday, December 22, 2020 1:07:21 AM(UTC)
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I have already given this solution on the forum long ago but here it is again:

- create your thumbnail file one way or another. vMix provides a command to produce thumbnails on the fly and a command to add any file to the project. A single shortcut can do it all at once.
- add this thumbnail as layer 1 to your input
- now your input shows whatever you decided
Done!

If you want to push it a little further, just add a trigger for this input to "hide" layer1 on transition in and to show it again on transition out.
Now you see real-time preview window in the input bar when your video is playing and your thumbnail when the video is paused.
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#29 Posted : Saturday, February 27, 2021 7:30:10 AM(UTC)
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#32 Posted : Monday, February 26, 2024 11:14:20 AM(UTC)
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+1 Good idea. Just have to wait another 3 years for it to be implemented lol
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#34 Posted : Monday, February 26, 2024 7:06:43 PM(UTC)
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#35 Posted : Tuesday, February 27, 2024 6:03:53 AM(UTC)
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+1 for this feature

I am even OK with the thumbnail being some way lower resolution just to save system/GPU memory in the UI.

Originally Posted by: DWAM Go to Quoted Post
I have already given this solution on the forum long ago but here it is again:

- create your thumbnail file one way or another. vMix provides a command to produce thumbnails on the fly and a command to add any file to the project. A single shortcut can do it all at once.
- add this thumbnail as layer 1 to your input
- now your input shows whatever you decided
Done!

If you want to push it a little further, just add a trigger for this input to "hide" layer1 on transition in and to show it again on transition out.
Now you see real-time preview window in the input bar when your video is playing and your thumbnail when the video is paused.


Not a bad work-around but doesn't having another input added now consume more video memory? I already have so many inputs than I can easily manage (even with categories) I don't know if I want thumbnail cards tossed in there.
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#36 Posted : Tuesday, February 27, 2024 8:47:51 PM(UTC)
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It would be great to be able to choose a frame from the input as the thumbnail instead of it defaulting to the first frame. As mentioned, adding 20 images to use as thumbnails for 20 videos is a bit much for a workaround.
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#37 Posted : Tuesday, February 27, 2024 10:27:24 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: samsp Go to Quoted Post
It would be great to be able to choose a frame from the input as the thumbnail instead of it defaulting to the first frame. As mentioned, adding 20 images to use as thumbnails for 20 videos is a bit much for a workaround.


If you create a SD shortcut one can show a thumbnail of it (choose thumbnaisl for display option)
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