Can I change the thumbnail shown in Finder on a video file? Main file type I use for these videos are .m4v but I can change that.
I want to know if I can change the thumbnail that displays in finder?
Or can I bake the thumbnail in at the exporting/sharing level within Final Cut Pro?
Or lastly is there a setting in finder. Perhaps the setting is "make first frame" or "make last frame" the thumbnail?
Because then I can bake the thumbnail I want, to be the first 5 frames of the video. That's an old trick I used to Use for Instagram thumbnails before they allowed to to add a separate file for the "cover" (aka the thumbnail)
P.S.
I want to note I am talking about the thumbnail that displays on the actual file that we see in Icon view, or List view, etc. I am NOT talking about the thumbnail that displays in the Preview Bar (on the side). Because I noticed those two "covers" are from different points of the video (please see my screenshot).
The reason I want this control in the first place is when I am doing complex searches of 100s of video files. It is much easier for our brains to clock the images in a thumbnail rather than the text of the video title.
Further more if you are using Icon View. Any longer file names are gonna be chopped up with an ellipses "..."
I want to know if I can change the thumbnail that displays in finder?
Or can I bake the thumbnail in at the exporting/sharing level within Final Cut Pro?
Or lastly is there a setting in finder. Perhaps the setting is "make first frame" or "make last frame" the thumbnail?
Because then I can bake the thumbnail I want, to be the first 5 frames of the video. That's an old trick I used to Use for Instagram thumbnails before they allowed to to add a separate file for the "cover" (aka the thumbnail)
P.S.
I want to note I am talking about the thumbnail that displays on the actual file that we see in Icon view, or List view, etc. I am NOT talking about the thumbnail that displays in the Preview Bar (on the side). Because I noticed those two "covers" are from different points of the video (please see my screenshot).
The reason I want this control in the first place is when I am doing complex searches of 100s of video files. It is much easier for our brains to clock the images in a thumbnail rather than the text of the video title.
Further more if you are using Icon View. Any longer file names are gonna be chopped up with an ellipses "..."
