06 September 2012

YouTube Partners and Custom Thumbnails

The Elusive Custom Thumbnail Button

I noticed this morning that the elusive "Custom thumbnail" button had appeared for all my uploaded movies. It's taken a couple of months from becoming a Partner to this change taking place on my channel, but if you're a newbie like me you'll be happy to know that it's just a question of time.



I spent the morning changing the more irritating thumbnail images that had been chosen automatically to something I can live with for the time being. At least they're not blurred and I could actually choose the frame to export from Final Cut Pro and then edit in Photoshop according to YouTube's spec (at an aspect ratio of 16:9 which is a bit mad when you're still shooting at 4:3 but at least it's me that's doing the cropping).