Creating thumbnails?

[Terry Pinnell]

In most of my video applications when I view their proprietary files
with Explorer using Thumbnail view I just see identical icons. So I
get no clue about their highly visual content apart from the filename,
which is often of no help.

For example, Movie Edit Pro has .MVD movie files. I'd at least have
liked to see thumbnail images made from their opening frames. But as
many video files start with a black frame, a better solution would be
to optionally assign an image.

Anyone know of any program that offers that facility please? IOW,
r-click an 'icon-type' thumbnail and assign a JPG of your choice?

Or maybe there's some hack in Explorer itself? I'll cross-post to an
XP forum.

 

[Sul@Albasani]

In most of my video applications when I view their proprietary files
with Explorer using Thumbnail view I just see identical icons. So I
get no clue about their highly visual content apart from the filename,
which is often of no help.

For example, Movie Edit Pro has .MVD movie files. I'd at least have
liked to see thumbnail images made from their opening frames. But as
many video files start with a black frame, a better solution would be
to optionally assign an image.

Anyone know of any program that offers that facility please? IOW,
r-click an 'icon-type' thumbnail and assign a JPG of your choice?

Or maybe there's some hack in Explorer itself? I'll cross-post to an
XP forum.

I remembered that there is a registry hack for WinXP

 

[Terry Pinnell]

I remembered that there is a registry hack for WinXP

Great. Did you remember any more? ;-)

 

[Terry Pinnell]

No one with any suggestions please?

 

[Terry Pinnell]

In most of my video applications when I view their proprietary files
with Explorer using Thumbnail view I just see identical icons. So I
get no clue about their highly visual content apart from the filename,
which is often of no help.

For example, Movie Edit Pro has .MVD movie files. I'd at least have
liked to see thumbnail images made from their opening frames. But as
many video files start with a black frame, a better solution would be
to optionally assign an image.

Anyone know of any program that offers that facility please? IOW,
r-click an 'icon-type' thumbnail and assign a JPG of your choice?

Or maybe there's some hack in Explorer itself? I'll cross-post to an
XP forum.

So far still looking for a solution. It seems surprising no one has
developed a tool to let you change the thumbnail of any file in
Windows.

 

[Zo]

Terry Pinnell laid this down on his screen :

So far still looking for a solution. It seems surprising no one has
developed a tool to let you change the thumbnail of any file in
Windows.

Have a look at this one I came across a few days ago:

Xentient Thumbnails

http://www.fileheap.com/freesoftware/wbmp.html

The home site doesn't appear to be up anymore, but this Wayback link
worked for me just fine yesterday 6/26/09.

Wayback download link:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://xentient.com/setups/thumbs.exe

Review

Xentient Thumbnails is a utility for replacing the generic icons of
image files with thumbnail icons of the actual image. These thumbnail
icons are much easier to recognize and they work everywhere icons are
displayed, including on the Desktop, in Open and Save dialogs, and in
Windows Explorer.

Requirements:
Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows 98 ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
32 MB of disk space.
High color or true color display
Download size: 729kb

Hope this helps