Britt Phillips

Until YouTube comes to their senses and allows us to choose any image we want (or at least lets us pick from all of the the video frames) here’s a handy YouTube Calculator. It’s pretty straight forward. You enter the minutes and seconds of your video. And this calculator tells you where to place images along the timeline in your video editor. Then simply render your video and encode it for YouTube and upload it. The only drawback of this workaround is that you end up with still shots merged in to the middle of your video that can look out of place in the flow of your video. YouTube claims the reason they don’t allow us to simply choose our own image for thumbnail use is to prevent users from using images that have nothing to do with the actual video content. There is one more way to work around this limitation and that is to become a YouTube partner. Partners are allowed to upload their own thumbnails.

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