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Can we change the photo on the face of the project in the library?

Posted on Feb 16, 2021 11:21 AM

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Posted on Feb 16, 2021 1:30 PM

iMovie randomly selects the display thumbnail from a frame in the midpoint in the movie. There is no feature to allow for selecting your own customized thumbnail. However, you can add a black background at the end of the movie, of suitable duration, to change the midpoint of the movie, and thus the displayed thumbnail. It would be a different thumbnail, but iMovie would still randomly select it, so you couldn't control what frame was chosen for the thumbnail.


But Take a look at a different solution in this thread:


 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252148394


-- Rich

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Feb 16, 2021 1:30 PM in response to solaskisix

iMovie randomly selects the display thumbnail from a frame in the midpoint in the movie. There is no feature to allow for selecting your own customized thumbnail. However, you can add a black background at the end of the movie, of suitable duration, to change the midpoint of the movie, and thus the displayed thumbnail. It would be a different thumbnail, but iMovie would still randomly select it, so you couldn't control what frame was chosen for the thumbnail.


But Take a look at a different solution in this thread:


 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252148394


-- Rich

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