choose the frame number used for video preview

[kilops]

it's not a "must have asap" feature but it's a kind of detail that can make the difference against other video software :

The ability to choose the frame used for video preview.

Actualy, we see the 1st frame as thumbnail in the file explorer.
That's better than nothing but i have many videos with a dark frame as 1st frame.
i can't spot the one i look for without the animated preview because of that,
and the animated preview cause little but disturbing slow-down.

When i make a flash file to use in resolume i save many modified versions of a main animation, and i often have flash files that have (again) exactly the same picture as 1st frame but not the same at all less than 1 sec after.
in thoes cases i rather frame 20 or 25 to be used as preview frame.

For all of that, i think an option to choose the fame number to be used for preview in file explorer could be realy nice.

[continuity-B]

Simpler than that might be to use a 'dont display black frame' rule, just like the option nero has for your preview clips when making DVD menus. Resolume would then just skip straight to the first 'proper' frame for the preview meaning extra info doesn't have to be saved for each clip.

But that wouldn't fix clips that fade in, which is what you mean I think. Just thinking out loud.

[VJ Nexus]

Kind of a weird work around, but I figured out a way around this that works for me. I know this works for flash files anyway, not as sure about video files. When browsing your files in the browser on the left, make sure the preview video is on, to see the videos in lower left. Click on the file you want to load, and watch the preview of it. When it is on the frame that you want displayed, drag and drop it right then. For some reason that frame displayed becomes your preview. You might have to play with it for a little while, but it seems to work well for flash files, haven't tried it with video files yet though.