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Nick_Angiolillo
February 3, 2023

Video thumbnails

  • February 3, 2023
  • 42 replies
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I’d like to be able to choose a thumbnail (either a frame from the video, or upload a thumbnail) for an object that has Video fill. Currently Figma uses the first frame of the video as the thumbnail, and if that video starts all black, then the thumbnail is just black. It will show fine in prototype view or mirror once the video starts playing, but when you are editing it would be helpful to see a frame of the actual video so you can adjust properties of elements (e.g. colors, opacities, gradients) and see what they’ll look like composited with video.

42 replies

knysha
New Member
September 2, 2024

Guys, just add it already - possibility to grab a stopframe from video file - as thumbnail (video will play normally in prototype). Black rectangles are confusing during design stage.

Margot_Gabel
Active Member
November 22, 2024

Still needing this since February 2023 🥲

Using Figma since 2018.
JSB
New Member
December 18, 2024

(+1) Also a big requirement from our studio.

Mark_Brown1
New Member
February 4, 2025

How is this not already a feature?

Alexia
New Member
February 19, 2025

That would be such a useful feature. I second everything.

Emory
New Member
February 21, 2025

This feature would be so helpful! 🙌

Shaun Jensen
New Member
March 21, 2025

+1 on this. Currently hiding a second fill (thumbnail) so I have something to design against… but so much more frustrating than it need to be.

Elodie_Besanger
New Member
April 1, 2025

I would love this feature as well!

Shaun Jensen
New Member
April 1, 2025

I did figure out a work around… you can create a component with 2 variants. The first one has the thumbnail and the second has the video. Then add an action that switches to the video variant after .5 seconds. It’s more work than I wanted to do, but it works.

Margot_Gabel
Active Member
April 4, 2025

Why is it possible to set a thumbnail for GIF but not videos, come on Figma we need this!!

Using Figma since 2018.