Use a thumbnail image to display a frame from your video to attract viewers.
Use a picture from your video
- From your Dailymotion Studio, go in Media > Videos
- Click on the video you want to edit
- On the Video details page, use the video Player to find the frame you want to use
- Click on the Use frame button to save the chosen frame as video thumbnail
Upload your own thumbnail*
- From your Dailymotion Studio, go in Media > Videos
- Click on the video you want to edit
- On the Video details page, click on Upload image and choose an image file
- Click on Save
* This feature is only available to Dailymotion Verified Partners
Thumbnail Specifications
| Minimum dimensions (width and height) | 640 x 360 pixels |
|---|---|
| Maximum dimensions (width and height) | 5000 x 5000 pixels |
| Maximum file size | 5MB |
| File format | JPEG, PNG or GIF |
| Color system | No CMYK - Only Grayscale, 8bit palette or RGB depending on the file format |
| External URLs (for API) | Only 3 redirect are followed in case of external URLs |
Extended header data & Image for the web
When an image is uploaded on the platform, our system checks a small part of the file header to make sure that the image is compliant with our requirements (size, pixels, dimensions...)
If the image has been modified through an editor (Photoshop, Illustrator...), the image may have extended data, which modifies the file headers. We're not reading the complete header in order to be able to process more data and more images at the same time.
It means that if the header is too large, and if we are not able to read the image specifications, we won't accept the file on our platform.