YouTube Shorts: How to Add ANY Custom Thumbnail
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0:00 - The problem with Shorts thumbnails
1:06 - How to upload fully custom thumbnails to TH-cam Shorts
2:43 - Why is TH-cam making this so hard?
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Update You Can No Longer Use the Editor to Trim and Cut Shorts.
100% correct. "This video can't be trimmed because it is a TH-cam Short."
TH-cam makes me mad sometimes 😡
There is another method for adding thumbnails to TH-cam shorts that I found by accident:
I wondered why TH-cam defined some of my short films as normal videos.
I compared them with my other shorts and found out that if the playing time is up to 59 sec, TH-cam declares them as shorts.
If they are at least 1 minute long, they are classified as normal videos and you can add thumbnails. In this case, you can upload the video via PC and edit it like a normal video.
I tested it by varying the playing time of the same video.
If you shorten the extended video later with the TH-cam editor, it will be listed as short again. The thumbnail remains but can not be changed afterwards.
Interesting info, thank you!
@@Valarxx have u try it buddy? didn't work for me :
weird i used to think shorts were 30sec
This is hilarious because back in the early days of TH-cam, people would upload a still frame-that they wanted to be their thumbnail-precisely at certain points in their videos so that they could select that as the thumbnail. They couldn’t scrub over the whole video for this; I believe it only let you pick between the first frame, the center frame, and the end frame.
How did you get that option on 0:13? I checked with my phone and it didnt show
Hi! I can't actually edit my shorts after publishing, I have this message saying I can't edit a short. You said it was due to a use of a feature, which I don't do. Is it still possible to edit a short after publishing (november 2023)?
It appears for methat when uploading a video on mobile, its quality is restricted to 720p, resulting in an unsatisfactory appearance. While I'd like to have a better thumbnail, I'm unwilling to compromise the quality by downgrading from 1440p at 60fps to 720p at 30fps. Does anyone know of a solution for this issue, or will I need to wait until the option becomes available on PC?
i also feel like part of why true custom shorts thumbnails are never coming is because of clickbait
when viewers are dropping like flies at the beginning of long form piece it’s a good indicator that there’s something wrong with the video
but short form is quicker to get through and by the time you realize you aren’t getting what you clicked on you might have even finished the video
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Today I created a shorts video .mp4 on PC and transferred it to DCIM/CAMERA on the phone..... it's not showing under photos to play back or upload to TH-cam Shorts?
Why not?
I have checked it's on phone via looking again via connection to PC.
How do I get to view it on phone under photos?
I wonder if it's to prevent people from creating fake thumbnails for clicks and views since your earning Revenue based off of views instead of watch time at this point I know they have problems with people creating clickbait thumbnails for long form videos. Technically you can actually lose the feature for custom thumbnails if you are heavily violating this.
This still works, I just did it. Everyone is right that the pencil is gone. I added the thumb to the beginning and the app automatically made it the thumb. You just have to get the short uploaded to YT, mark it private then go into the editor in YT studio (on desktop/laptop) and do all the same things
and a little hack is to add two image of different thumbnails you are considering and put one on beginning and one on end and then you can choose between the two and see how they perform.
it seems just the act of transferring and uploading from your phone helps in a big way. At least youre able to select which frame in the video is best to be used as the thumbnail
You used to be able to do this on the desktop version, some time ago. I started doing shorts last year and the ones I uploaded from my PC I got to create and choose the thumbnails. TH-cam removed this feature on purpose. No idea why or when they will put it back :(
This is what I was thinking too. I did this in an old video of mine long time ago when I still can't put custom thumbnail in my long-form videos.
Hello awesome people on the YT Journey! Just wanted to say, you can use tools online to do this almost automatically, said tools were originally designed for thumbnails on Discord videos, but it will work with this aswell! Goodluck on the journey and stay strong, we'll make it some day. Also, hello Rob!
Please tell me about those tools. It would be a great help
I just started uploading shorts to try and capture peoples attention when I get more of a following I’ll upload actual videos, I’m not tryna be the biggest but just trying to do this for fun and see how it goes! It takes time but I’m all in it! Any tips? What are the tools?
For some reason when i try to select the custom thumbnail on my phone, i don't see the option? Is it normal or was it removed?
I followed your instructions but I lost the HD quality only SD available .. do have to sacrifice the quality in order to reserve custon thumbnail
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Why you guys not making video and explaining how VIDIQ thumbnail AI is horrible
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adding 1 frame or some second to shorts for thumbnail choice is so obvious. but then suddenly you ask for TH-cam editor to delete that, BOOM, MINDBLOWN 😂😂😂 i never think of that lol
but yeaaa, sad that i always use sound from other, so this feature won't work. but i think using image from 1 frame in the video is good enough. or maybe you can put custom thumbnail at the end, since at the end, it wont be too annoying
Hey guys, I tried this method, but I am not sure what I did wrong, I mean there're some videos which I can trim afterwards in the studio, there're also some files that's not giving me the option, can you help me out on this?
Unfortunatly when I tried this "trim &cut" was greyed out. When I hover over it with my curser, it says "This video cannot be trimmed because its a TH-cam Short." I did everything else up to this point.
I used to do this trick before I "verified" my channel where I would basically show a picture of the thumbnail for the first few seconds, Because I realized that TH-cam's automatic thumbnails choose from different parts of the video. The first one is the first couple of seconds.
Thank you! This will help since I'm new-ish to the Short TH-cam Videos option. I was like, Why Can't I upload a Thumbnail!" to my Thailand Videos!!..Haha thanks man!
Wow, that's a great workaround. It's a shame TH-cam makes what should be simple processes very complex and making their users jump through hoops. I prefer uploading Shorts to TH-cam on PC rather than on mobile...but maybe I'll have to change that.
I cant see pencil icon to add thumbnail on my shorts? Whats the reason. Btw I have been using tab. May be thats why??
YouTubr just disabled triming and cutting in shorts just as I needed this video😓
Thanks for showing a working around. Its annoying that TH-cam won't let us and we have to do the loop hole.
Aaaaaaaargh!!! SO SO close, but then when I got back to the Desktop version of YT, the Video Editor gave me the message "This Video can't be trimmed because it's a TH-cam Short" when I tried to use the Trim & Cut feature. How did you get access to that?!
This still doesn't work on my end. I go into the editor and it tells me I am not allowed to trim or cut because it is a TH-cam Short. SOS
I wish we could do custom thumbnails for shorts even if you couldn't add them until your video has already been published for a week or something. It's just so hard if you want to watch shorts from someone's page to know what you're clicking on. Thumbnails would help this greatly.
I agree. I saw a short the other day called something like "TH-cam has a problem", with Markiplier's face as the thumbnail. Turns out it was uploaded by Jacksepticeye 😅
Now if that's not clickbait then I don't know what is 😂
Doesn't work anymore if it ever did. Go into the editor and it says, can't trim or cut cause it's a short.
Our TH-cam Overlords work in mysterious ways. Still, it baffles me that they aren't all that interested in implementing a proper custom thumbnail feature.
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Thanx!
This option unfortunately is not available for TH-cam Shorts apparently since when I tried to do this I got this error
You are super smart for figuring this out
I appreciate you sharing this. However, I'm annoyed that TH-cam is making this so difficult, especially since I'm in the middle of uploading a bunch of videos (and many have forced into becoming shorts).
But when we upload through phone we wont be able to upload the video in 4k resolution right?
now i can rickroll half of the world
I don't understand why it's so difficult for them to make this function happen. The problem with "making a short" is that the quality of my 4k videos would go to hell hahahha
I made a huge mistake, I had to step back for almost a month without posting things (for some personal issues) and now that I came back my content stopped being recommended by the algorithm, I was growing considerably fast and well but I'm not giving up now that I can finally focus on my channel again but I wonder if I will get my Shorts reach back at some point...
I can give this advice for other creators: Do not leave you channel without scheduled content if you're not gonna be able to post for some weeks!
Great advice and makes total sense. Great points and thoughts. Not ultimate solution, but still works, so all great. thanks again for a helpful advice.
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TH-cam making simple things unnecessarily awkward...? DEFINITELY doesn't sound like them 😅
In all seriousness thanks again for the tips & tricks VidIQ! I really need to jump on the shorts band wagon & this may just help me get seen 😁
They're following the Apple version of business. Don't fix problems that exist until you want to release a new version to make yourself look better.
Thanks mate, this should help. My shorts with good content look terrible because of random frames chosen by youtube
TH-cam now disallows cropping of shorts which means the thumb will remain in the clip. It's a small price to pay though.
Thanks Rob! Leave it to the community to fix a problem that has existed for too long
How can I do this from pc
It would be enough for me to be able to choose an image from the SHORTS on the PC as well !!!
I don't believe that YT will ever allow custom thumbnails on SHORTS, it would only lead to clickbait...
BUT please allow to manually select preview from uploaded video
I have a faceless channel, and I am creating my TH-cam shorts videos using Pictory. How do I upload a TH-cam shorts from a PC and still add a thumbnail. Right now in TH-cam, you can't add a thumbnail. What is the workaround for this issue?
Knowledge that is very useful and easy to understand, Thank you for sharing, greetings of success always
I am somehow not able to choose between different frames of a Short for a thumbnail
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Looks like the trim and cut function is no longer available in the editor for YT Shorts
Oh wow... this is super old school. We used to put a single frame in the video at a very specific time to get thumbnails
This is kinda how people made custom thumbnails back in like 2008. They would place a picture at the exact middle of the video and it would appear as the thumbnail lol
it worked for me just now and also i could trim it. Try using upload video option instead of creating a short option maybe.
I just get "preview not available". And with upload video I dont have the option to chose a thumbnail.
@@KordanorsReviews did you click on the default image on the left top corner? from there you can edit the thumbnail once you upload the video. BTW I didnt use any effects or options in the shorts flow. I did all of that in premiere pro before uploading the video.
@@nitroKenan I dont even have the option. If I select my video via "create" I cant upload it (tried mp4 and mov, maybe too long?). Via upload video the icon doesnt show up. Maybe depends on the Operating System of the device? I got no idea
@@KordanorsReviews not sure but when you click on the + sign a menu pops up with options; create a short, upload a video, go live and create a post. here I used upload video on android youtube app.
@@nitroKenan Yeah, I aso use android, but I dont have the option. When I chose upload video I do have an option to set a thumbnail, but its not a "pen" icon as seen in the video, instead its a picture icon, and that lets me chose a picture as thumbnail...which is then horizontal. This thumbnail is then also ignored when the video is uploaded.
So no pen icon and I also dont have a option to select any part of the shorts as thumbnail.
I can't trim the video, I'm getting this message "this video cannot be trimmed because it is a youtube short"
Great tip Rob! By the way, it seems this was possible to upload custom thumbnails from the desktop at the very beginning when the shorts feature was released, wasn't it? After a few months, it dissappeared.
Well that sux...! I wonder why YT decided to take this option away... 😭
@@OurBusyAussieFamilyOBAF2 Had you noticed that also?
I am so glad they finally rolled this out LOL
My assumption is that when trying to use TH-cam short it is very difficult if our channel is a tutorial topic to get organic subscribers and viewers, especially for beginner TH-camrs, different from those who are already monetized, will this make sense?
and the tendency for those who often watch through short videos to be less interested in watching regular videos or long videos, this might be used as an audience poll, especially for those who are still beginner TH-camrs and haven't been monetized.😕
Thanks so much for this! I honestly don't understand why on the one hand TH-cam is encouraging us to upload shorts but on the otherhand they are looking so cringy for most of us 🤣I'll try your hack soon because i really want our channel to look more polished and our shorts look like 💩
Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. When I upload on my phone it doesn't let me choose the video frame for the thumbnail. Just in case anyone is wondering, I'm using a Pixel 6 (Android).
Thank you its very helpful🎉
TH-cam msg reads " This video cannot be trimmed because it is a TH-cam short" so you cannot edit a file once it is uploaded.
The tube buddy Crome extension has a thumb nail generator and it works on shorts. (Just found this out yesterday)
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I just started uploading shorts to try and capture peoples attention when I get more of a following I’ll upload actual videos, I’m not tryna be the biggest but just trying to do this for fun and see how it goes! It takes time but I’m all in it! Any tips?
@@romanceandlovetips keep creating in your style, that's it(I guess😉)
Me too currently in learning phase only😄.Best wishes to you and all you tubers💐😃here
Another good way. Is to plan out the thumbnail and put it into the video and then just pick that scene. That's what I do and it seems much simpler.... Just in my opinion
Iam not getting edit option in Yt studio to upload custom tumbnail
because they removed video editing for youtbe shorts
This looks like "we don't have plans to continue that crap and we won't change anything or spend any more hours on it."
My shorts views suddenly dropped in the last 10 days !!!
From 300k views per day to 40k views!!!
Anyone has the same problem!!?
Thank you 🎉
Does anyone remember how you totally could upload custom thumbnails when they first launched shorts? I uploaded around 20 shorts with a thumbnail and they're still there. I don't know why they allowed it at first, but then revoked it.
We do, the difference was TH-cam didn't show the custom thumbnail on the shorts shelf. It's a bit odd that YT have had to develop mechanism to prevent uploading of custom thumbnails.
What's the different between create a short vs upload a video.
I just started uploading shorts to try and capture peoples attention when I get more of a following I’ll upload actual videos, I’m not tryna be the biggest but just trying to do this for fun and see how it goes! It takes time but I’m all in it!
I think i found a way to upload Thumbnails for shorts on PC. Just make sure you export the video u edit in h.265 format, and then u get a 15 sec time gap to upload the thumbnail, so make sure u have the thumbnail ready before uploading the short. So just upload the short and upload the thumbnail soon within the time limit. I have also tried this with h.264 which is the normal format but it doesn't work with that format so make sure u export your video in h.265 format for uploading short.
Thank you! You helped me ❤
Now youtube says "This video can't be trimmed because it is a TH-cam Short." Now what to do please tell me.
Very good explication! Thank you from Italy!
NOT WORKING! No short trim anymore. :(
Yeah I was also wondering why TH-cam doesn't allow content creators to upload custom thumbnails for shorts. So you have to select the thumbnails from a smartphone it seems like...
I kinda stopped watching youtube shorts from the feed because I get mostly irrelevant garbage that I don't care about. I think YT changed the shorts algorithm again and they made it worse... and they keep changing it. I don't care that a stupid video of people doing stupid things has millions of views, it has nothing to do with the content i'm subscribed to, and i don't want to watch it just because it's "viral". I think they want shorts to be like tiktok, but even tiktok allows you to pick a thumbnail from a frame on the video even on desktop, and it has better audience content catering algorithm.
Not having features for desktop but having them for mobile is very stupid and vice versa when it'd be EASY to implement. Not being able to splice clips into a short but only allowing a static clip as a short when we should be able to use the YT editor to create one sounds weird.
my one problem is... shorts uploaded through mobile are only SD not HD, is this common for everyone else?
personally, I don’t want the ability to upload custom thumbnails, because ‘good’ shorts would be based on the thumbnail, so I wouldn’t be able to make lots of youtube shorts, because I would have to make a thumbnail for each of them.
Exactly. If TH-cam adds this feature then surely they will come up with crazy algorithm updates where there will only push good looking thumbnail
I agree. If I ever make shorts, I don’t want the extra work. Shorts are meant to be more natural - the videos, like those on TikTok, have to speak for themselves.
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Has anyone tried using an Android emulator to run the TH-cam app to do this? It might save a bit of time switching between the computer and phone
Thanks, but the problem with this method is that it uploads the video with low quality only (SD), even if your original video is 4K!
I had thought about doing this but then realized I have extreme paranoia and was worried even half a second would mess with retention but the video editor hack was cool. Well done.
For my when i upload short video i cant choose music and my own song togheter why this problem for all have this? I need to choose song or my Orginal sound video thats problem for youtube
Yeah, I tried doing the 'send the video to your phone and upload it that way to get the option to choose a custom frame of the video' strategy, but I saw the video uploaded was WAY worse quality than the shorts I upload directly on desktop. Would I like to pick a specific frame of the short for a thumbnail myself? Yes. Do I want to post subpar-quality shorts in order to do it? Hell no. They need to just allow us to pick a different frame on desktop and be done with it. Having completely custom thumbnails on a short would raise the bar for thumbnail expectation way too much and lead to misleading thumbs on shorts. I like the middle ground of it having to be a frame from the video itself at least. It's a lot more trustworthy.
Great idea!!
Bro vidIq u are actually very smart for figuring out this, thank you so much !
I can't do it. There is NO edit button for me to choose a thumbnail.
Nice video something to think about forsure
I believe I'm gonna have to try this 😜
Awesome, thank you
The competition is fierce , I don't mind these limitations that reveal even big TH-camrs are just like you & I and not another AI Hacker
it seems this "hack" is already exposed. Just now i was able to do most of the steps, but when i got to the editor to trim the thumbnail. That option is DENIED.
But thanks for your strategy. Yours is still the best so far
Wow, at this point they should just give up and let us create custom thumbnails😂. Great video!