- Any way to control which frame YouTube uses for representative still?
- Posted by Doc on May 6th, 2008
I'm having an issue with some videos in that the still that comes up
in the YouTube gallery is some kind of green noise, while others come
up with just a black frame.
Any way to control or predict which frame gets used?
Thanks
- Posted by Chip Gallo on May 6th, 2008
Doc wrote:
You can go into the details about the video and choose from several
still pictures. Vimeo (another video hosting service) gives you more
choices including the ability to upload your own art. You can also
change the video later, if for example you re-edit the piece, and keep
the statistics. Youtube doesn't support this.
Chip
http://www.vimeo.com/chipgallo
- Posted by Gene E. Bloch on May 6th, 2008
On 5/06/2008, Doc posted this:
If I had to guess (that's a sort of joke - I know nothing about this,
so *of course* I have to guess!) I'd say that YT chooses the first
frame in the video. So you should make sure your video starts with a
decent frame (by careful editing with a tool that facilitates doing
that).
Anyone around willing to corroborate or contradict this guess?
--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
- Posted by Doc on May 6th, 2008
On May 6, 1:11*pm, Chip Gallo <cga...@NOSPAMcitlink.net> wrote:
Yeah, I got that but all three in the various vids are either the
green noise or black.
I just took a look, looks pretty cool. I see it also supports stereo.
I'll have to investigate further.
Thanks!
- Posted by davesvideo@aol.com on May 7th, 2008
On May 6, 1:18*pm, Gene E. Bloch <spamf...@nobody.invalid> wrote:
Sure. I'll contradict that. I just went and looked at the choices of
one of my YouTube videos. The clip is 8:43 long. The first choice is
about 1:30 from the first frame of the clip, and the 3rd choice is
about 1:30 from the last frame. The 2nd choice appears to be right in
the middle. So, I suppose that there is some sort of formulae, but it
does not use the first frame.
Dave
- Posted by Gene E. Bloch on May 7th, 2008
On 5/07/2008, davesvideo@aol.com posted this:
Thanks, that's definitely informative for me.
It also seems to me to imply that the OP is just out of luck.
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
- Posted by Doc on May 13th, 2008
On May 7, 10:08*am, "davesvi...@aol.com" <davesvi...@aol.com> wrote:
Since posting this I've found out that it uses frames from 25 - 50 -
75%. So, the way to manipulate it if you're using the short high res
video with a long black tail trick is to wrangle things so that the
frame you want is at one of those points.
I made a file with the frame I wanted a couple of seconds on either
side of the mark just to be sure since I've noticed converting to .flv
stretches the duration a tad.
