Comments on: How To Change Your YouTube Video Thumbnail Image?

By: Nicolás Casanova

Nicolás Casanova — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:12:29 +0000

I've just posted a 1 minute 20 seconds video and the middle thumbnail youtube picked is not the exact middle frame!!

At the end of the video there is a 5 second still inviting viewers to subscribe to my channel. I think youtube counted that still as 2 seconds and not 5, divided the total video time and picked that middle frame, not the real middle frame.

By: kjkh;jh;

kjkh;jh; — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:03:30 +0000

try wondows movie maker

By: JST

JST — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:49:47 +0000

Don, I'm guessing this has something to do with Google's own system and there's little you can do to influence it except make your YouTube video popular. Anyone know better?

By: Don

Don — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:20:47 +0000

Sometimes when I do a search in Google I see links for videos and sometimes the video thumbnail is there and sometimes it isn’t. Do you know what type of program or software you need to make your thumbnail display like that?

By: cinetech

cinetech — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:49:46 +0000

I’ve added more info in my website:

How To Set Up The Right Poster Frame In YouTube
http://www.squidoo.com/youtubeframe/

By: Haven

Haven — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:20:44 +0000

It’s definitely the exact center frame of the video (at least for .avi files). I’ve uploaded a number of videos to YouTube, and each thumbnail is the frame at the exact middle point of the video, including the milliseconds. So if you upload a 3-minute long video (3:00:00), the thumbnail will be the frame that is at exactly 1:30:00. If you upload a 2:48:66 video, then the thumbnail will be the frame at 1:24:33. If you want to prove it to yourself, open a few of your uploaded videos in an editing program (e.g. Windows Movie Maker). Look at the video length, then divide it in half. The frame at that exact midpoint will be the thumbnail.