07-25-2019 02:12 AM
Go to solutionHi,
I am just uploading my first course on Udemy.
When I preview the course as a student, the first video images I see, I mean the thumbnails, are pretty awful, not attractive...
Is it possible to change the thumbnail of the video image that appears to students in the course?
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07-25-2019 01:56 PM
Go to solutionHey @keithohare, currently we don't have this option available. I've passed your feedback to the team, however. Thanks for bringing it up!
07-25-2019 01:56 PM
Go to solutionHey @keithohare, currently we don't have this option available. I've passed your feedback to the team, however. Thanks for bringing it up!
07-26-2019 07:06 AM
Go to solutionThanks Abbie!
08-13-2019 09:06 PM
Go to solutionThat's unfortunate as my thumbnails are AWFUL.
In the meantime, would it be possible to find out the algorithm as to how they generate the thumbnail? Like do they choose a specific time in the video so we could figure out what frame would end up as the thumbnail?
08-14-2019 11:38 PM
Go to solutionI am working on my first course and took a lot of time to create a nice opening image for each video. It would be good to have the choice of a thumbnail or I will also be devastated to be stuck with horrible ones after my hard work. I spent a year researching and buying equipment before I even started filming. I would like to submit my own thumbnails.
02-11-2021 04:23 PM
Go to solutionIs there a place for the community to vote on planned features? For me, this is huge.
10-21-2019 07:18 PM - edited 10-21-2019 07:19 PM
Go to solutionI messed around with this for some time on one of my courses, and it seemed I was able to narrow it down to the 6 or 7 second range. That's where the auto generated thumbnails seem to be generating from.
So, what I decided to do was add an animated intro title for each video (so that it wouldn't feel weird that there was 10 seconds of "dead air") and made sure that the 6-7 second mark was how I would want the thumbnail to look if I had control over uploading my own. It's definitely more work than it should be, but it works.
01-08-2021 10:00 AM
Go to solutionI'm in exactly this position 18 months later - I can't see how to change the thumbnail on each of my lecture videos. Has Udemy solved this issue yet?
10-04-2022 11:28 AM
Go to solutionThree years later 🤔
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