Scene7: Select the poster frame or video thumbnail

Learn how to specify a specific video thumbnail or poster image in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) in the context of Scene7, now known as Dynamic Media.

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Environment

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Issue

Learn how to specify a specific video thumbnail or poster image in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) in the context of Scene7, now known as Dynamic Media.

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Method 1: Using AEM User Interface

1.    Navigate to the uploaded video asset for which you want to change the thumbnail.
2.    In asset selection mode, from either the List View or Card View, select the video asset.
3.    Click on the Properties icon (a circle with an “i” in it) on the toolbar.
4.    On the video’s Properties page, click on Change Thumbnail.
5.    On the Change Thumbnail page, you can either:
    o    Select Select Frame from video from the toolbar. Play the video, and pause on the frame you want to capture as the video’s new thumbnail.
    o    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.     Save the changes.

For more detailed instructions, you can refer to the Video in Dynamic Media 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’s 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:
•    All videos in AEM must have an associated thumbnail; you can’t delete a thumbnail without replacing it.
•    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 article in AEM’s Dynamic Media Viewers Reference Guide.