Thumbnails for videos how to edit

on iPad in thumbnail view of my videos I like to change the picture or rather add via markup a text to the displayed thumbnail. How can I do this in order to better identify the contents

iPad Pro, iPadOS 17

Posted on Jun 20, 2024 3:53 AM

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Jun 20, 2024 4:50 AM in response to katrin333

On the Mac you can use QuickTime Player to scroll to the desired frame, Edit > Copy, then in Finder > Get Info, select the thumbnail in the upper left, and Paste.

Or the grab a frame at 30.2 seconds with ffmpeg and insert it with exiftool:

ffmpeg -ss 30.2 -i movie.mov -frames:v 1 image-%03d.jpg

exiftool -P -overwrite_original '-CoverArt<=image-001.jpg' movie.mov

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