This video turorial is part of the Media Authoring section of the KMC Essentials VOD course. After you have learned to upload content to your Kaltura account, you can "author it". That is to say that, you can customize and polish your content to prepare it for an audience First we will learn how to create "thumbnails". A thumbnail is an image file that is displayed when your video is not playing. Hence, it acts as a preview for your content. A more attractive thumbnail will guarantee a higher audience and therefore it is very important to choose an attractive image for your thumbnail. Usually, the thumbnail consists of a frame from your video but you may also use an unrelated image instead.

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