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Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2014 4:15 pm
by Severin Schultze
Is it possible to change the thumbnail picture of the timeline thumbs to the slate frame for instance?
That'd be really nice to stay really organised onset with bigger projects..

Could't find anything in the manual..

Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2014 7:41 am
by Harris Charalambous
This would be great not only for slating but also for easier shot recognition when the first frame of the shot is black or a flash frame etc etc.

Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2014 3:26 pm
by Rohit Gupta
There is a setting in Project Settings for this.

Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 6:01 am
by Harris Charalambous
Hey Rohit, are you talking about the update thumbnails setting? If so how do you designate which frame of a specific clip is currently representing the thumbnail of that clip in the timeline?


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Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 10:34 am
by popcornflix
If you feel that a particular clip’s thumbnail isn’t representative of its content, you can change it.
To change the current thumbnail:
> Move the pointer over a thumbnail, drag to the left or right to scrub through the clip, and stop when you find a frame you want to use as the new thumbnail.


Page 380 of the Colorist's Manual.

It is a searchable PDF, BTW.

Good luck.

Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 4:04 pm
by Severin Schultze
popcornflix wrote:
If you feel that a particular clip’s thumbnail isn’t representative of its content, you can change it.
To change the current thumbnail:
> Move the pointer over a thumbnail, drag to the left or right to scrub through the clip, and stop when you find a frame you want to use as the new thumbnail.


Page 380 of the Colorist's Manual.

It is a searchable PDF, BTW.

Good luck.


I stopped checking the search results for thumbnail a couple of pages ahead.. Thanks!

Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 7:17 pm
by Kevin Good
I'm having some trouble with this as well that maybe someone could shed light on:

When I mouse over the tumbnail and let it scroll around, (as per the manual) that works in the media and edit pages, but in the color page the thumbnail is always on the first frame. Am I missing something?

Thanks all!

Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:54 pm
by blakekhodges
Despite popcornflix's incredibly arrogant answer (heads up popcornflix: the Page # of the Resolve manual changes with every version of Resolve, so your "answer" becomes dated pretty quickly).

Also, this does answer my main question (and hopefully the question of others):

How do you change the Poster Frame in the COLOR TAB of Resolve?

Yes I've checked the manual (at least searched for "poster frame" throughout). I found the entry about changing the poster frame in the Media tab, but I can't figure out how to do it in the Color Tab, which would be incredible helpful. Thanks to anyone who can help with this!

Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:08 am
by Uli Plank
You don't. You set the poster frame in the media pool.

Re: Changing thumbnail frame in timeline

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:21 pm
by George Deierling
thumbnails on the color page:
if the clip starts with a fade the thumbnail shows the first frame, if the clips starts half way through a fade it shows the half fade. Confusing and unhelpful.
Is there a project setting for grabbing thumbnails 1 or 2 sec in, or at end of transition?
Otherwise - always make fades ending with clip.