"poster frame" difficulties

I open iWeb, build a page, set the poster frame, save -- go away, come back and the poster frame is gone -- all I have is a black space where it once was. What am I doing wrong and how do I correct it?

That's been a problem for a while now. Be sure to report it to Apple via via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html. The more reports the better chance they'll work on a fix.
A common suggested fix is to paste a still image that you want to use as a poster frame at the very beginning of the movie with Quicktime Player 7. That's because the default frame is the first frame of the movie/video. Not very elegant but does work.
Another possible workaround is shown on this demo page: Opening Item in a New, Precisely Sized Window. There you can use any image you want as the "poster" frame.
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Set the thumbnail/poster frame?

I use iMovie to generate QuickTime files, which I embed in HTML web pages.
Is there a way to specify the frame which displays when the embedded movie is not being played? I.e. the image that appears in the QuickTime player in the webpage, prior to hitting play.
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Mike

When I tried setting the poster frame in QT Pro and then saving the file, the format seemed to have mysteriously changed.
If you check the "Inspector" or "Properties" windows you should find that the audio and video compression formats have remained the same. What did change was the file container which I now assume is MOV.
When put online, the new files remain as giant quicktime logos, whereas the original versions would start to show video immediately. I think this may have been because I exported from iMovie as "streaming". Do you happen to know how to preserve this parameter when saving from QT Pro?
Not knowing how you are posting your files it is difficult to guess what is confusing the plug-in player. For instance, did you remember to change the file extensions in your references to match the new file container extension? Or, if you did, did you empty the download cache or force a page reload to refresh the page changes? As to setting the "Fast Start" option for auto playback while the movie is being cached to the local hard drive, this is normally re-set to "on" when you access the "Save As..." option in QT Pro. Of course, the file embedded setting is overridden if you embed an "AutoPlay" parameter with a value like "True", "False", or a specific cache load point that will automatically start playback when a cache download reaches that time reference. If you are using an application like iWeb to post your pages, then simply set the "Autoplay" option and let the application write the code for you. The hinted tracks are only needed if you are actually posting your files to a real time streaming server. The "Fast Start" content is what most users actually see/use here and are talking about whe the talk about streaming. In any case, until the logo problem is corrected, you won't know whether you file still capable of "Fast Start" auto playback.
As an alternative you can always "paste" a still frame of the same dimensions as your movie as the first display frame in your movie or create/code a separate "poster frame" still image to your web page. (I believe QT Kirk has covered this latter work flow a number of times in the QT Pro forum.)

Is there a way to browse all "poster frames"/"album artwork" for TV Shows?

Here's the scenario...
I have a LOT of old cartoon shows in my iTunes collection, and I have them tagged and sorted as "TV Shows". Unfortunately, when browsing the collection using "Album View", iTunes only shows me ONE poster frame for the entire season.
This might be fine for some people, but not for me with regards to my collection of old cartoons, because I want each individual show to have its own poster frame that shows the title of that particular episode.
Yes, I know I can do that by playing the clip, stopping at it the title frame, right-clicking and selecting "Set Poster Frame".
That's not the issue though. The issue is that I (currently) have more than 2,000 shows in my collection and it understandably takes a long time to manually set the poster-frames for all of them. So I do a whole bunch every so often when I have the time to do so, and then wait a long time before I get round to doing some more.
Getting on to what the actual issue is though, it's that when using the "Album View" I cannot see the individual per-episode poster-frames of all my separate shows, and so I cannot see what I have artworked so far and what I have not.
So what I'm asking really is, does anyone know of any alternative ways (3rd-party apps) to at least VIEW (in some kind of "browse" mode), if not edit, individual TV Shows poster frames?
By the way, I know that converting the TV Shows to Movies will show me individual poster-frames, but that will kill all the hard work I've put into tagging the shows names, episodes, seasons, etc.
If I'm not making sense here, ask me for clarification on anything.
I'm using the latest versions of iTunes, and the Mac OS, on Intel, etc.

You won't be able to have a page showing 24 charts per host.
I really think that it is a bad idea to create a group per host, just to have the ability to add many charts.
The maintenance effort will be a big penalty.
Regards
Rob

Lightroom 5 Video - What is a "Poster Frame" ?

Hi, in Lightroom 5's video editing i can set a "poster frame". Could you tell me if that is one or more of the following, or something more/else?
the definition of the Youtube preview image if i upload the video?
the definition of the video's preview image inside Lightroom?
a new, separate still image file showing the video's moment i had selected when clicking "Set Poster Frame"?
I have very conflicting information about this from experts and i would appreciate answers from all who are really sure about what they say and who have actually used the "poster frame" feature successfully.
Thanks for your help!

Hi. Did you ever get an answer? I'm curious to know how the poster frame is useful outside of lightroom. So far, I've noticed that it does not translate when i import a video into aperture. Does it write the frame location to metadata?

How do I select the Poster Frame when exporting to video?

PP CS6
I cannot find how to select the frame that I want to appear as the Poster Frame in the exported video.
I can select it I can change one by right clicking an imported video OK but not the sequence!
I've been through every menu I can find & even Lynda.com training!
I'm sure that there must be a way but I'm blowed if I can find it!!

There are two common meanings for the phrase "poster frame":
A standalone image on disk (JPG etc) which is displayed by a player before the video is loaded - commonly used by video player apps on websites (YouTube etc), InDesign and PDF files, etc. so the video asset doesn't have to be opened in order for the viewer to see what they're about to watch - although the image is normally captured from the video it doesn't have to be.
An image resource embedded into the XMP/ID3 data of a video or audio file which can sometimes be shown in the player, but is normally set because it appears as the thumbnail image when viewing the files in Finder or Windows Explorer. It's not part of the content stream, it's in the file header. In MP3 files it's used to store album artwork.
You can create standalone JPEG images from PP using the camera icon below the monitor and can semi-automate the export of a still image alongside your video using presets in Adobe Media Encoder, but there's no option in PP (or via Adobe Media Encoder) to specify the embedded poster image in a rendered media file. Several third-party apps can do it, either during render (Compressor / Squeeze) or after the fact (Quicktime Pro), but support for these embedded resources depends on the wrapper for the video file.
The ability to set a 'poster frame' in the clip bins in PP is solely there to help you organize your project assets visually - for example if the imported footage starts from black, or if you want to choose a frame where the slate is visible - but your choice has no effect on the sequences at export and isn't written back into the original footage.

After publishing I can no longer see the poster frame on QuickTime

I cant figure out why after publishing to the web (MobileMe), I can no longer see the poster frame on the QuickTime movie that I made. When I publishing to a folder on the mac to check my results I can see the poster frame, so it is only happening when i am publishing to the web. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening or have a solution?
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IPad video poster frames white box with grey tv, looking for fix

I have searched the forums and can not find a working solution.
I have mpeg4 Apple TV/ iPad videos that I have added to my iPad through iTunes.
When they came in, all the poster frames were black, as that's the first frame of video. I manually went though iTunes and set each poster frame.
I then sync and reboot on the iPad. Poster frames are now white squares with grey tv.
Repeated the above twice.
Signed in and out of home share (as suggested by one forum) and reboots iPad.
Have removed all files from iPad and then added back. Back to black poster frames.
I have no way to check if the poster frame are correct as in iTunes, I can only see files on the iPad in list view. When I do get info, there is nothing about the poster frame.
Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Ipad2
iOS 6.1.2
iTunes 11.0.1
MacPro OSX 10.7.5
Thanks!

BUMP.
Still looking for an answer on this. In addition to the above:
I have tried setting the poster frames inside of iTunes
I have tried setting the poster frames outside of iTunes and then importing onto the iPad though iTunes.
Setting ratings made no difference.
I can not add artwork manually, it is greyed out in the info pain and not accessible.
Still same results. Now all video files are a Grey Square with a different symbol depending on what "Media Kind" the file is set to. And in fact, when I do this, the files disappear from iTunes and I can no longer find them.
Apple, Please help!!
Reading the Forums, this is a problem that has yet to be answered.
Ipad2
MC770LL/A
ios 7.1.1

Music Video displays wrong ARTWORK. Displays a POSTER FRAME rather than the JPG that I have given it.

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tracking down the cause of the flakiness can be tricky ... as you already know ...
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Is it possible to add a poster frame to video in HTML Resources

I have several videos that will be repeated throughout a folio, so I have made the HTML Resource zip containing them, how do I control the appearance?
If I put a image behind the HTML Content and set the web overlay to transparent I just get a black box, If I set the web overlay to autoplay I just get a white box with a play symbol. so is there anyway to specify a custom poster frame?

I've also tried adding the image as a background image in the HTML but the default white poster frame sits on top of this

Greyed out Set Poster Frame

I am trying to set poster frames for my videos in my timelines. Unfortunately when I select menu and then Set Poster Frame it is greyed out.
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Thanks
Brightface.

You should have a Marker at the beginning of the Timeline. Click it to activate it, and then you should get Set Poster Frame. Just activate that Marker, and set the CTI (Current Time Indicator) to the desired new location - I do this with first a Left-click, then a Rt-click.
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Please help with a Poster Frame

I have imported an FLV into Flash using "Video Import" and selected a prebuilt skin that gives play, volume and caption control. The movie has autoplay turned off so when I viewed on the webpage it shows a black first screen and the skin beneath it. I would like to insert a poster frame that will hide when the user presses play on the skin. I was a novice with AS 1 and 3.0 is making me facepalm. Please help, I've already tried Flashkit and Actionscript.org and not gotten any answers. Thanks!!

Okay in Frame 1 I have an AS layer I copied your code into, layer two is the movie clip with the image named 'myPoster' and the third layer contains the FLV playback named 'myVideo' so I changed the names in the code to:
mvVideo.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,f):
function f(e:MouseEvent):void{
removeChil((myPoster);
I get the following compiler errors and publish preview shows just the image:
Scene1,Layer 'Action Script', Frame 1, Line 1 1078: Label must be a simple identifier.
Scene1,Layer 'Action Script', Frame 1, Line 4 1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before semicolon.
So I tried modifying the code to:
mvVideo.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,f);
function f(e:MouseEvent):void{
removeChil((myPoster));
Which fixed the original errors but still only the image shows and I get new compiler errors.
Scene1,Layer 'Action Script', Frame 1, Line 4 1180:Call to a possibly undefined method removeChil.
Scene1,Layer 'Action Script', Frame 1, Line 4 1120: Access of undefined property myPoster.
Scene1,Layer 'Action Script', Frame 1, Line 1 1120: Access of undefined property myPoster.
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Using PHP to Create a Poster Frame from a Video

I have a PHP script which I am using to grab a poster frame from an arbitrary video ($video). Currently it breaks the video into all its frames, counts the files, and grabs the middle one...
system("mplayer -vo png $video");
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How do I set poster frame in Premiere Pro?

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"This whole thing stems from me being 41 and still bowing down to my Mother's every wish and guilt trip.
Sorry to tell you so late in your life that you only have one job when it comes to moms and grand-moms. Give them what they want!
Part of your "monicker" best describes the issue.
You can edit your published pages using hundreds of tools but the are best edited with a plain text editing app like BBEdit (any plain text editor works).
You can use Safari to view your page and even "save" the source code (Command-Option-U) and then "save as". Edit this new page to make your changes and drag it back into the appropriate Web older of your iDisk (replacing the older version).
I did it to one of my pages to add a sound file to one of my slideshow pages:
http://web.mac.com/kkirkster/iWeb/Maya/Maya_files/slideshow.html
just because others said it couldn't be done.
Darn. Now you have another mother, or worse, an in-law. Sorry.

Can't set POSTER FRAME for .mp4 movies... can for most others

I've got QTPro.
When I try to create a poster frame for a .mp4 movie I compressed it tells me I have to save and does one of the following two things:
1) Tells me I can't save after I hit SAVE
2) Tells me it wants to save as a .mov file... I don't WANT a .mov file.
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"This whole thing stems from me being 41 and still bowing down to my Mother's every wish and guilt trip.
Sorry to tell you so late in your life that you only have one job when it comes to moms and grand-moms. Give them what they want!
Part of your "monicker" best describes the issue.
You can edit your published pages using hundreds of tools but the are best edited with a plain text editing app like BBEdit (any plain text editor works).
You can use Safari to view your page and even "save" the source code (Command-Option-U) and then "save as". Edit this new page to make your changes and drag it back into the appropriate Web older of your iDisk (replacing the older version).
I did it to one of my pages to add a sound file to one of my slideshow pages:
http://web.mac.com/kkirkster/iWeb/Maya/Maya_files/slideshow.html
just because others said it couldn't be done.
Darn. Now you have another mother, or worse, an in-law. Sorry.

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