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willowwellness
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3 years ago

Changing the thumbnails of my videos

Hiya!   New drop box user and I am looking to edit the icon that my video has to something more flattering than a pause of my face. lol.   Any help i would appreciate.   Thanks  
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Rich
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3 years ago
willowwellness wrote:

New drop box user and I am looking to edit the icon that my video has to something more flattering than a pause of my face.

There is no option to do that. The thumbnail is generated from a frame at the 0:08 second mark in the video. The only way to change it would be to edit your video and add an intro screen lasting at least 8 seconds.

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    alunleppitt
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    So rather than giving us the option to select or supply a thumbnail frame you've chosen 8 seconds randomly which is often a wierd facial expression . And no way of changing it ? Please can your tech teeam look into this sharing professional videos with odd looking thumbnails os not very flattering. and my titles are usualy 5 seconds maximum and I aint changing that!

     

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      vjh4290
      New member | Level 2
      2 years ago

      Plus googling change thumbnail on dropbox video comes up with instructions on how to do it on the "Share" page.  But I don't find it.

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        Mark
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        2 years ago
        vjh4290 wrote:

        Plus googling change thumbnail on dropbox video comes up with instructions on how to do it on the "Share" page.  But I don't find it.

        Thats when you export to other services such as WeView - you are changing the thumbnail on that service, not Dropbox links

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