Customising start of Video Thumbnail button

I have a project that is nearly done. I have several buttons, to chapters in the movie, that are video thumbnails. My question is:
I want the appearance of the button (video subpicture) to show the frame at say 2:12 of a timeline but I want the link to point to chapter 2, which might be located at 1:54 on the timeline.
Can I have the picture (Not a still picture) on the button thumbnail that is different than the location of the Chapter marker. I don't want to use a still picture, which I could easily add in photoshop. I want to use a different frame of the timeline.
thanks

You can customize where the video in the thumbnail starts by setting the Poster Frame property of the chapter (in Chapter Properties) to the timecode where you want thumbnail playback to begin.

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