Skyhouse Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Hi Guys, I wanted to suggest a very simple solution to the creation of thumbnails for tasks or shots. It would save us lots of time fussing about. When I upload a new video for a shot or task, it would be great to be able to save a particular frame as the thumbnail. An example would be to be able to right click in the preview window and select 'set frame as thumbnail'. Does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattias Seebergs Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Hi Robert, Thank you for your suggestion. It definitely make sense and it might seem simple, but it will actually technically mean quite some work. It would be easy to copy the version thumbnail over to the shot or task, but to offer the possibility to select a particular frame would be more advanced. For what reason do you want to save a particular frame? Do you have a slate frame as your first frame that is automatically selected at the moment? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jperenia Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Perhaps to avoid black frames or maybe show the variation between different tasks or shots. I've also been approached asking if ftrack would allow you to select a particular frame or even randomly select a frame in the middle somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhouse Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 To be able to update the thumbnail to reflect possible changes in design for the shot or task. This could be that the task thumbnail was a wireframe before, then changes to shaded, then possibly a final render. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jperenia Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 I have code on the backend that I am currently using to set the thumbnail of a task or shot based on frame number. I created a custom attribute for frame number and an action to create then set the thumbnail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annikell Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 I am joining you in this request. Haz mentioned an automatic thumbnail upload in his fxphd-class - so there should actually be some written plugin already.Maybe this could be published? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattias Seebergs Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Not sure what code or plugin Haz was referring to. I will however get back to you here when I've discussed this with the team. Thanks,Mattias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Limsater Posted May 30, 2016 Report Share Posted May 30, 2016 Hello, vote for this feature on our public roadmap: https://trello.com/c/jjBHq1dD Cheers, Fredrik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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