How do I set the first and last frame of a video to be an image?

Unfortunately this results many times in a completely black thumbnail. Is there a way to set it to display, say, a frame a third or halfway in? Ubuntu linux does this for its video thumbnails and I feel this gives a better impression of its contents.

Hello everybody! I want to add a logo image to a video, and Windows Movie Maker doesn't seem to have the functionality, so I refrain to using GIMP GAP. After doing a Google search, I decided that using the Video/Move Path function should do the job....

First of all, I'm on a Macintosh, so *insert Windows Program* won't work. For making the videos, I use Snapz Pro X, settings: 24 Frames per second Video: h.264 Audio: IMA 4:1, 44.100 kHz, stereo, 16 bit I then use Quicktime for editing it. Very first...

I cannot, for the life of me, burn a DVD on my MacPro of an 8.5 minute video without 2-4 video/audio glitches. Details of everything I've tried within. I have an 8:40 QuickTime video exported from a slideshow application that I'm trying to burn to DVD...

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.*; public class CheckVideos extends JFrame// This is the main method which allowing us to use the features of the class Check Videos as this is it...

How can I change video thumbnails in Vista? By default Windows displays the first frame as the video thumbnail, but this is useless if the first frame is black or any other non-descript image. I've scoured Google for a solution to this problem to no...

I regularly want to make videos for YouTube consisting of a single still album art image + audio track. I use OS X. I'm still looking for the best solution for this seemingly trivial task. My "best-so-far" solution is using ffmpeg as follows...

I know I can get YouTube's own thumbnail, but the service I'm hoping to find would work something like this: 1. I do an API call, with a YouTube URL/ID or direct YouTube video URL as the input. 2. The service captures a few stills from different points...