Adding a video in PowerPoint is a piece of cake, even from a mobile device. However, what many people are wondering about is whether it is possible to add a video thumbnail in PowerPoint and it certainly is.
The best of all is that we can configure a thumbnail based on any frame of the video that we like or upload an image that we have on the computer. In this way, we can even use an editing program to be able to edit a good quality image and add it as a thumbnail to our PowerPoint document..
Add a video thumbnail in PowerPoint
Before we begin, we'll need to open PowerPoint as we normally would. Once we have it open, we will have to choose to open a new document or one already created. If this is your first time adding a video thumbnail to PowerPoint, it's best to try a new video.
Now we are going to have to go to the “Insert” tab and then we will go to “Video”. In the video section, we are going to see options to add a video, we select the one that suits us and we wait for the video to appear..
Once the video is successfully added, we're going to have to click the play button, then we're going to have to allow it to play until we find the frame we like and hit the pause button.
The next step is to click Video Format > Poster Frame > Current Frame. In this way PowerPoint will use the image that was left in the paused video as its thumbnail..
How to add an image as a thumbnail
Another option is to add an image or photo that we already have saved on the hard drive of our computer. From the Poster Frame option, we are going to Import from file and then we will have to choose the image that we have on our computer. We press “Accept” and that would be it.
Delete a video thumbnail in PowerPoint
If we want to remove a video thumbnail in PowerPoint, we're going to have to go to Poster Frame and click Reset, that's all we need to do.