How to animated thumbnail?

MakerWorld
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Webm would be great!

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Just had this problem again when uploading an entry for the Kitchen Design Contest. The cover that’s used for the GIF doesn’t even show the model. It looks like the very first frame of the GIF sequence is hardcoded in for the cover. I don’t see any way to select a frame.

The best solution is to have the ability to use a separate photo for the cover. The temporary work-around will be to have a way for users to select a frame of their choice.

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You have to create the gif in the way that the first frame is your picture you want to show. Don’t know which software you use, but when you convert from a video, just cut the clip on your desired frame, and move the first half to the back of the clip :wink:

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How well does this work? Assume you would want to set it to 0 or 1ms as well, so it doesn’t flicker when you view the actual gif.

But it still limits you quite a lot, since GIFs are quite limited colorwise etc, It would be nice to separate these.

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Works good, I did it on this one for example, and since when it is animated in a loop you won’t recognize it that it started in the middle of the “video” Potato Spiral by laisch - MakerWorld
The framerate is set to 15fps I guess (not really sure I left it to standard settings)

Yes you’re right about that. Because if it is a longer video, you have to compress it more to be under 8mb.

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In my GIF, the last frame happened to be usable, so I made a photo of it and used as the first frame. That made an uninterrupted loop and worked for now. But it’s a workaround.

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I’ve added Separate Cover for GIF to our plan list, although may not be included in recent release.