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Originally Posted by: DWAM  Quote: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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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  Zrzut ekranu 2020-12-19 111035.jpg (265kb) downloaded 3 time(s).
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Originally Posted by: Bomber93 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 ;-) thmbnl.JPG (78kb) downloaded 9 time(s).
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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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Originally Posted by: Bomber93 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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+1 for this feature, it would be very useful
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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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+1 Good idea. Just have to wait another 3 years for it to be implemented lol
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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 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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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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Originally Posted by: samsp 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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This would definitely be beneficial. I am currently looking for a a solution to this. Any updates on this request from VMIX
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+1
Very useful - even if it's possible to achieve this with suggested workarounds.
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