Making menu with video thumbnails

I'm creating a menu with video thumbnail. I want the video thumbnail to use chapter 2 on the timeline but when the user click the play button, I want the timeline to start from chapter 1. How do I do that?

I think now that JSB and I are proposing the same method.
Your original post:
I'm creating a menu with video thumbnail. I want the video thumbnail to use chapter 2 on the timeline but when the user click the play button, I want the timeline to start from chapter 1. How do I do that?
If what we proposed doesn't work, what happened and why was it not what you want.
You have timeline, with a button linked to that timeline chapter 1. When the button is selected, you want the video to play from the beginning.
You now want to add a video thumbnail. Ignore whether there are other chapters or not. The thumbnail for the button is going to look to the timecode for the poster frame for that button link (chapter 1) to determine what to play in the thumbnail. Select chapter 1 on the timeline, go to any location on the timeline, and set the poster frame. It doesn't matter whether the poster frame location is in chapter 2, 3 or whatever, that is the poster frame for chapter 1, and therefore for your button.
Hunt, do you see why that won't work?

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Thanks for answering me.
However I still have some questions regarding this proccess:
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