Scene7: Select the poster frame or video thumbnail
Learn how to specify a specific video thumbnail or poster image in 蜜豆视频 Experience Manager (AEM) in the context of Scene7, now known as Dynamic Media.
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蜜豆视频 Experience Manager聽(AEM)
Issue
Learn how to specify a specific video thumbnail or poster image in 蜜豆视频 Experience Manager (AEM) in the context of Scene7, now known as Dynamic Media.
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Method 1: Using AEM User Interface
1.聽聽 聽Navigate to the uploaded video asset for which you want to change the thumbnail.
2.聽聽 聽In asset selection mode, from either the List View or Card View, select the video asset.
3.聽聽 聽Click on the Properties icon (a circle with an 鈥渋鈥 in it) on the toolbar.
4.聽聽 聽On the video鈥檚 Properties page, click on Change Thumbnail.
5.聽聽 聽On the Change Thumbnail page, you can either:
聽 聽聽o聽聽 聽Select Select Frame from video from the toolbar. Play the video, and pause on the frame you want to capture as the video鈥檚 new thumbnail.
聽 聽 o聽聽 聽Or, select Select Thumbnail from Assets from the toolbar. Navigate to a previously uploaded and published image asset that you want to use as the thumbnail. The chosen asset will be automatically resized to serve as a thumbnail image for the video.
6.聽聽 聽 Save the changes.
For more detailed instructions, you can refer to the Video in Dynamic Media聽in the AEM user guide.
Method 2: Using Scene7 Viewer URL
You can specify a poster image for a video by appending a URL parameter directly to the viewer URL of the video.
Here鈥檚 an example:http://<anyexample.com>/path/to/video?s7viewer&videoPlayer.posterimage=/path/to/image.jpg
In this URL, /path/to/video is the path to the video and /path/to/image.jpg is the path to the image you want to use as a poster image.
Notes:
鈥⒙犅 聽All videos in AEM must have an associated thumbnail; you can鈥檛 delete a thumbnail without replacing it.
鈥⒙犅 聽By default, when you upload a video to AEM, the first frame is used as the thumbnail. However, the Scene7 algorithm advances along the video timeline until a contrasting frame is found if the first frame is monochromatic, to avoid using frames like black intros or scene transitions as thumbnails.
For further details, you can refer to the VideoPlayer.posterimage聽article in AEM鈥檚 Dynamic Media Viewers Reference Guide.