Make a thumbnail or cover image for your video

Overview

Choose a video and iEdit offers five quick moments, the start, a quarter of the way in, the middle, three quarters and the end, which is often enough to find a usable frame. If none of them is right, scrub to any frame yourself. Then pick the output: 16:9 at up to 1280 pixels wide for landscape players, 1:1 at up to 1080 for square feeds, 9:16 at up to 1920 for vertical platforms, or the video's full size with no crop.

The frame is taken from the full-resolution video and cropped to the chosen shape, so the thumbnail is as sharp as the source allows rather than a blurry capture from the player. It is saved as a photo in My files, and the video itself is not changed. Everything runs on your device: no upload, no account needed, and it works offline. If the frame is to be the first slide of a carousel instead, the Carousel tool picks several at once.

A good cover decides whether a video is watched. Thumbnail is for the upload that needs a custom cover, the clip in a portfolio or a shop listing, the message preview that should show the right moment rather than a black first frame. Saving the image to My files is free; saving it straight to your gallery is part of Premium, the optional subscription.