YouTube Thumbnail Timer Video

The actual length of the video in Adobe After Effects is 31 sec & 28 frames running at 29.0 frames per second. The 1st thumbnail was at 8 seconds (240 frames) the middle thumbnail was at 16 sec (480 frames) and the last was at 24 sec (720 frames) Hope this helps!

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[ilnaras]

Handy!

[OverniteProductions]

Glad to hear its helping. I find the easiest thing to do is make a version of your video with the timecode right in the center of your video and upload that first so you will know the exact frames that it pulls for thumbnails. Avid, After Effects, Premiere and FCP all have the insert timecode feature...

[IYIaster]

The new thumbnails are random I THINK

[OdairFernandes]

Hello, Overnite.

I am a beginner in video productions.

Let me check if I got what you did:

You uploaded a video with the same time and frames of another video you want to broadcast.

The uploaded video uses a feature called "timecode" that shows the progress of time and frames.

By seeing what number of frame YouTube catched to be the Thumbnail you now know what frame would be catched in the main video, right?

[AKSoapy29]

Thanks

[hanbali93]

What is the thumbnail for 03320 frames?

[turbotonic27]

how does this work?

[zeboman123]

@ilnaras u took a 5 letter word and turned it into a 3 paragraph message e_e

[futureBLU]

Didn't work for me either... my latet video "Americans are Dumb?" is 142 seconds long and the first thumbnail was taken from the first few seconds of the movie. Weird. Maybe they've changed things.

[emgeemann]

@askmefirst - something tells me that being some of the most subscribed youtube partners of all time probably comes with its benefits, as in maybe youtube staffers that screen uploads are favorable with the snaps. but honestly I tried this with 3 of my videos, theyve definitely randomized it because theyre never chosen exactly following this formula. usually several seconds off

[askmefirst]

and how do you think that shanedawson and the others do those cool thumbnails

[HanTVStudios]

i think the stills it picks are based on the overall collor of the videoand possibly attempts to avoid random still images to prevent rick rolls and stuff.

[emgeemann]

well i tested this out on my video, "winter longboarding edit" - verdict: doesn't work. my video is 4:07 long, meaning a thumbnail every 61.75 seconds; while each is Roughly at the minute mark, my first thumbnail is at 0:54, 2nd at 2:00, 3rd at 3:00 - by your calculation they Should have been 1:01, 2:03, 3:05. have they randomized it a bit now?

[AngryBF2Nerd]

obviously its worked for you, but when i uploaded this same video back to youtube just now, i got frame 68, 613, and 724...

WHAT THE FUCK!!!