{"id":476,"date":"2008-03-20T00:59:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T00:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/03\/youtube_thumbnail_math\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T00:59:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T00:59:43","slug":"youtube_thumbnail_math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/03\/youtube_thumbnail_math\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Thumbnail Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube currently auto-selects 3 frames from your uploaded video to use as the video&#8217;s thumbnail. Knowing this, you can try to position one or more desirable frames at these exact locations:<\/p>\n<p>X = Video length (in sec.)<\/p>\n<p>Y = X divided by 4 or X\/4 (in sec.)<\/p>\n<p>Y is the 1st thumbnail.<\/p>\n<p>2 times Y or 2xY (in sec.) is the 2nd thumbnail (poster frame).<\/p>\n<p>3 times Y or 3xY (in sec.) is the 3rd thumbnail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube currently auto-selects 3 frames from your uploaded video to use as the video&#8217;s thumbnail. Knowing this, you can try to position one or more desirable frames at these exact locations: X = Video length (in sec.) Y = X &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/03\/youtube_thumbnail_math\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}