Adding a Preview Image to Panopto Videos

Adding a Preview Image to Panopto Videos

How-to-Guides

Panopto will display the first image in the video as the Preview Image in Panopto. This image, in many cases, is not informative about the video.  In Panopto we can add a Preview Image to appear as the title for the video.

Here is an example of a video with no preview image and a video with a Preview Image:

Video with No Preview Image

Video Without Preview Image

Video with Preview Image

Video With Preview Image

                

 

 

Related Topics: Panopto

Creating a Preview Image with PowerPoint

  • Create a slide in PowerPoint
Creating PowerPoint Slide

 

  • Save the slide as a .jpg or .png image – that is use the Save as option and select the image file type
  • You will be asked which slides to save in image format 
  • Save time and create cover slides for all of your videos at the same time
  • Once the files are saved, they will be in a folder and be named, slide1, slide2, slide3, etc.
PowerPoint Save as JGP

 

Adding a Panopto Image to a Panopto Video

  • In your Canvas course, click on Panopto Recordings (1) from the navigation menu.
Panopto Recording button on Canvas Course Navigation Menu - Step 1

   
  • Select the video you wish to add a preview image to and hover your mouse over the area.  On the menu that appears, click the Settings Button (2).
Panopto Canvas Preview Image Step 2 - Settings

   
  • Select Overview (3).
  • Click on Edit (4) next to Preview Image, the third option from the top.
Panopto Canvas Preview Image Step 3 - Overview and Step 4 - Edit

   
  • Edit is replaced with a Browse Button (5), click this button, then choose your PowerPoint Preview image that you created.
Panopto Canvas Preview Image Step 5 - Browse and Select

   
  • Once the correct file is selected, click on Save (6).
Panopto Canvas Preview Image Step 6 - Save

   
  • When finished the Preview Image will appear next to Preview Image
  • Click on the X at the top of the Session Info window to return to the Edit view in Panopto Recordings
Panopto Canvas Video with a Preview Image

The Preview Image will appear on the Panopto Recordings page, and wherever the video is embedded.

For further assistance, UO Online & Canvas Support are available.

  • In-Person: Room 68 PLC
  • By phone: (541) 346-1942
  • By email: uoonline@uoregon.edu
  • Submit a Service Portal Ticket (opens in a new tab). This form can also be accessed in Canvas from the Help button at the bottom of the Global Navigation Menu.