Choose preview frame on uploaded video | Feature Requests

Choose preview frame on uploaded video

Steven Bennett-Day

Enable user to choose the preview frame for uploaded video content.

January 21, 2021

Remy Gieling

This would be incredibly helpful

Ken Harb-Wu

Thanks for suggesting - would be extremely helpful. currently I have to work with screenshots as overlays every time we export

Sofie Jarvis

Merged in a post:

Select Thumbnail

Lynch Zhang

It would be nice to be able to select a thumbnail for your videos, especially for exporting to PDF.

May 23, 2023

Jen Stein

Please enable the ability to chose a poster frame for a video, as Keynote allows. A random frame selected in Pitch is very unfortunate for presentation design.

This would be extremely helpful. This would also allow control over which image is shown in an exported PDF in lieu of a video too. (Other requests to embed a video in the pdf seem unrealistic)

Amanda Ford

This is an important feature to allow users to have control of what they want to use to represent a video they drop onto a slide. The first frame is not always the best one! Thank youuuuuu.

Michael Ariel

Merged in a post:

Video Thumbnail

Jordan Lipshutz

Ability to select any frame for video thumbnail or custom image upload thumbnail.

April 8, 2022

Michael Ariel

Merged in a post:

Custom thumbnail/preview for videos

Simon Widjaja

I as a user really need to be able to grab or upload a specific thumbnail/preview image for my videos. Picking a random image from the video ended up in several bad experiences in my pitches :(

March 1, 2022

Michael Ariel

Merged in a post:

Custom thumbnails for embedded videos

Florian Simmendinger

I just subscribed to Pitch Pro and was disappointed to find out it's not possible to set a thumbnail. I'm surprised this is not a more common feature request - possibly because not that many users are on a subscription plan yet.
Why is it so important? Well for starters, if I export a PDF, the video obviously isn't included and it just picks a random frame from the video. If my audience can't see the video, at least I want to show them the next best thing in the form of a compelling thumbnail. BONUS: Automatically add a link to view the video in the browser with the new link images feature when exporting a PDF!
Also, another reason why this is important because if videos are not auto-playing they are easy to miss as videos and might just look like an image. I like to include my thumbnail some messaging like "Play this video", a big play button, etc. - it would be great if the native play button of Pitch is not this tiny black circle but something you can customize and make obvious with styling.
Paid features need more love :) Cheers,

August 20, 2021

Michael Ariel

Florian Simmendinger Thanks for sharing this feedback with us! I am seeing a similar request over here (https://pitch.canny.io/feature-requests/p/choose-preview-frame-on-uploaded-video), so I'll merge these two together. These are great points and I'll be bringing this up internally to get the conversations flowing. :-)

Florian Simmendinger

Michael Ariel: 👍 Couldn't find this one as I was searching for the keyword thumbnail - good to see there are others requesting this too.

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