Subject: Re: [Usher Talk] Autogenerate preview - not working?

From: Winston Baccus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 13:38:55 -0700 (PDT)

In my experience, WMV files don't get previews automatically. The 
processing bar shows Usher going through the files when you add new ones 
and anything that is not a WMV file gets a preview.

The only way to have Usher automatically do WMV previews is to choose the 
Get Movie Info option in the contextual menu. If the movie file is 20 mins 
or longer, it's going to take 30-60 seconds for it to generate a preview.

On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 11:11:13 AM UTC-5, Many Tricks wrote:
>
> On May 18, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Thomas Klinger wrote: 
>
> [Sorry for the slow response; I approved this message to the list, then 
> forgot to respond.] 
>
> > just downloaded this excellent and missing tool. One word: wow! The 
> > capabilities of this tool are great! 
>
> Thanks! 
>
> > drive, all of them are in different formats. Now, when adding a folder 
> > to Usher, some videos will have a preview picture quite soon, but most 
> > of them stay empty. Only if I take a look into the movie info a 
>
> Usher will eventually generate a preview image for all the movies, 
> automatically. You should see a small progress bar at the lower right 
> corner of the screen, indicating that Usher is processing the movies. Do 
> you see such a bar? 
>
> Many non-QuickTime-native movies (MKV in particular) can take a long time 
> to process -- and until the processing is done, you won't see a preview. 
>
> regards, 
> -rob. 
>
>

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:11:13 -0700

[Sorry for the slow response; I approved this message to the list, then forgot to respond.]

Thanks!

> of them stay empty. Only if I take a look into the movie info a

Usher will eventually generate a preview image for all the movies, automatically. You should see a small progress bar at the lower right corner of the screen, indicating that Usher is processing the movies. Do you see such a bar?

Many non-QuickTime-native movies (MKV in particular) can take a long time to process -- and until the processing is done, you won't see a preview.

regards,
-rob.

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From: Thomas Klinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 12:30:18 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

There's only one thing, which blurs my happiness a little bit:
generating a preview. I have hundreds of video clips on my local hard
drive, all of them are in different formats. Now, when adding a folder
to Usher, some videos will have a preview picture quite soon, but most
of them stay empty. Only if I take a look into the movie info a
preview thumbnail is created and stored to Usher's database. If I
leave the cursor on the movie, the clip starts to play automatically
(I guess this should be so), the preview picture, however, isn't
generated.

Is there a possibility to enforce the generation of the preview
pictures within one folder? This kind of feature would be great, even
though it may take time. But I think that shouldn't be rocket science
since Finder shows the preview picture.

Regards, Thomas