PS3: How to set and change video thumbs in xmb
Note from Wololo: This tutorial on How to set and change video thumbs in PS3 xmb was initially published by /Talk member mysis, as part of our monthly tutorial contest. Mysis won the November tutorial contest for the PS3 (a $10 PSN code) with this entry. You can find the original post here.
[Introduction]
Video files on xmb video column can display a small thumb clip of about 15 seconds from the file as preview.
By default the system creates it from the beginning of the video.
Videos registered to the xmb by applications usually do not get a thumbnail.
Creating it or changing it are the same procedure! 🙂
[Procedure]
Select the video you would like to create or change the thumbnail for:
Play the video by pressing “X”-Button and pause (“X” again) at the position you would like to have the next 15 seconds as thumbnail for.
(Hint: “L2”-Button lets you rewind and “R2” fast forward.)
Now press Triangle-Button to display the control panel and select the icon, left to the trash-icon.
(Marked red = Thumbnail creation Icon)
It will now ask you to confirm picking 15 seconds at the beginning of this scene as Icon:
If one is already set, it will overwrite. Once you confirm it, it will process the creation of the icon:
The icon has been changed!
That’s it! Now you can exit the video playback (by pressing “O”-Button) and enjoy the changed clip:
[Bonus]
Press Square-Button in playback mode of the video to make a scene gallery appear:
D-Pad Up/Down lets you select intervals of 2 minutes/1 minute/30 seconds/15 seconds:
Selecting, preview the scene in the small thumb and press X-Button to jump to the scene as playback.
I hope you enjoyed this piece of information and have much fun with it as i do!
/greetz mysis 🙂
Notes from Sony:
* Depending on the video file, it may not be possible to change the icon.
* A video file shorter than two seconds cannot be used as an icon.
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Ok nice wheres the tut on organizing games on the xmb?
You can organize games by categories.
Press triangle on the game > Information > Place a category name > Then press square to sort the games by category.
this is old but good for those who store video on ps3 that dont know about it.
this was added back in the 2.0 update
Your kidding. This is a informative tutorial? Look in the instructions manual for this great tutorial. Wow doesn’t take much to win a psn code here
Feel free to write a little bit bigger tutorials and the PSN codes will be yours 😉
I really miss the ps3 xmb. It felt like it belonged to me. I feel like the ps4 “dashboard” is just being loaned to me by sony.
I feel you. It’s like they were like let’s keep it the same but minus the fun. I liked how you could put movies, music and pictures ON the console.
Same here
I sold my ps3 to buy ps4
PS3 XMB just better