hey everyone, i got everything working and stuff, but does anyone know how to make it that when someone who uploads a mpg file, that it will give u a thumbnail of it, instead of the movie reel image to replace it? please help? thank you =)
I'm relatively new myself, so I'm not positive my info is correct the best. I've not seen nor heard of an 'automatic' way to generate a thumbnail for the movie clips.
My site doesn't have too many, so I do em when the need arises, pretty low-tech by hand:
1. take a screen shot of the movie clip at an interesting point.
2. crop the shot in pbrush
3. resize using irfvanview (i_view32.exe) [www.irfanview.com]
4. save as the same name as the movie, with the type and extension of: .jpg
Then I upload 'em and specify the thumbnail.
I've heard of folks using fraps [http://fraps.com/] to capture frames from movie clips. It didn't work for me tho.
