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Video Thumbnail Studio
Choose the exact frame every clip opens on — in seconds, not one by one.
Why we built it
The problem, in plain terms
A gallery is judged on its first frame. Vertical clips often open on a blur, a fade, or someone mid-blink — and fixing that used to mean re-exporting the file. Creators needed frame-level control inside Aisle.
What's new
Everything in this release
- Frame stepper and scrub bar for precise poster selection
- Suggested frames that skip black fades and low-contrast starts
- Crop previews so you can see the frame in every layout
- Batch review to audit an entire wedding's thumbnails in one pass
- Non-destructive — your original file is never re-encoded
See it
How it looks
How it works
The short version
Open a clip in the studio, scrub or step to the frame you want, and set it as the poster. Aisle stores the choice as metadata against the clip, so the original upload stays untouched and you can change your mind later.
Where to find it — Weddings → open a wedding → Design → Thumbnails.
Before and after
What changed for you
Before
Re-export the clip to change its first frame.
Now
Pick the frame in Aisle; the original file never changes.
Built because creators asked
What we heard
- Changing dozens of video thumbnails one at a time took too long
- Vertical clips kept opening on a fade or a blurry frame
What we did: Batch review shows every poster frame side by side, so a full wedding can be checked and corrected in a couple of minutes.
Themes are summarised from creator conversations and feature requests — not attributed quotes.
Go deeper
Guides and related pages
Coming next
Where this goes
Planned work connected to this release — shaped by the roadmap, not a delivery promise.
- AI thumbnail suggestions
- Per-section thumbnail rules