All my movie thumbnails show the beginning "20th Century Fox" and "Universal" intros. Making them kinda pointless lol. Is there a way to set an amount of seconds into a video file where the thumbnail frame is extracted from?
Before coming here I asked ChatGPT if this feature existed in Directory Opus and it said it did in the Thumbnail section, but that wasn't accurate as I don't see anything.
Would be nice to have video thumbnails that actually help identify the file. Either giving a few options or the ability to specify an amount of seconds/percentage into a video file would be awesome.
Opus doesn’t generate video thumbnails itself. It’s up to the video thumbnailers installed on the system. (The same ones File Explorer uses for video files.)
Most video thumbnailers choose the frame themselves, but some give you more control, such as Icaros:
One last question, I am noticing that normal File Explorer instantly shows the new results after I clear Windows' thumbnail cache, while Directory Opus sometimes persists showing older ones. Is there anything within Directory Opus itself that has some sort of thumbnail cache I can force clear?
I would do this with Davinci Resolve.
It has a time code section specifically designed for this kind of thing. You can embed chapters into your movies then export. You can even cut out the intros if you want. You can set up a template and just add new movies and adjust the intro bookmark.
I bet there are movie enthusiast websites that provide timestamps for chapters. And I use the Media Player Classic app for video. It auto reads a folder and makes a playlist out of it and supports chapters with hotkeys.
Handbrake can do these things too. The bonus with handbrake is you can bit crunch the quality to shrink the file size by like ten times. It can do subtitles and things like that too. Although I think DR can as well.
Opus has its own thumbnail cache, which can be cleared in Preferences.
Thumbnails that come via the shell (e.g. video thumbnails) won't be cached by Opus since they're already cached by Windows. Those should just take an F5/refresh after clearing the Windows cache, at least as far as I know.