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    Video thumbnails on Macbook help!?!?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Colpolite, Jun 19, 2013.

  1. Colpolite

    Colpolite Notebook Deity

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    You know on windows 7 or 8, when you open a folder with video files on it, it shows its preview thumbnail pics, but on MacBook, it only shows a plain squar with the file name. How do you show the preview thumbnails of videos on MacBook?
     
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    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    it will only appear on some type of files, unless you transcode to the avi or mov that they read well, it wont appear

    best thing to do is to name pron properly, like savage kitties 3, lustful pandas 5 and scuba scoobie in search for the lost dolphin
     
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  3. Colpolite

    Colpolite Notebook Deity

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    But how come it won't show on Mac but then all file types shows up a preview thumbnail on Windows?

    Is it because Mac OSX really ancient in these kinds of things compared to windows? I thought Mac OSX is a real operating system to be used as a real computer.
     
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    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    It is because OSX preview is only designed for a very limited amount of file types ( Quicktime supported normally ) as where windows preview thumbnails will work with all file types supported by currently installed codec's. they just handle it differently

    there used to be a third party application that would fix this in 10.7 but I have no idea if it works in later versions ( or remember what it was called )
     
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  5. Colpolite

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    Damn that sucks, can we install a codec pack then to make all video types show their preview thumbnails?
     
    Colpolite, Jun 19, 2013
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    why would you really want to waste the processing time?

    The Cover Flow view is supposed to be for that... flipping through and seeing previews of all the files... I find it kind of lame.

    You always have Grid view with Show View Options set with "Show Icon Preview" and the icon will show a part of the movie (if it has a codec to understand it).

    I like just keeping the icon default, because you can play it instantly to see what it is with just using the space bar.
     
    doh123, Jun 19, 2013
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