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Is it possible to change trailer thumbnail to a promo still because of low quality?

It is an older show so the trailer on the imdb is quite low quality and even if you change the timestamp of the thumbnail the result wouldn't be great. Can I request to change it to a specific still image in higher quality? It is for this show tt0118421

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Hi Adam1234-

The thumbnails can only be grabbed from the main trailer. In this case, it will have to be one within an specific timestamp. 

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@Maya​ hmm interesting. Is it different for newer shows? Because a lot of newer titles have a promo still which is much higher quality than the trailer. Also, I've looked through the trailer for the title I posted and the thumbnail isn't even in the trailer, it's just a low quality image from somewhere else.

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@Adam1234​ - Can you post a link to one of the newer titles you are referring to?

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@Maya​  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8772296/

here is one, a new season just came out for this show. You'll see the aspect ratio and the watermark from the trailer aren't there and if you reverse search the thumbnail, it's a promotional still image and not a screenshot from the show or trailer itself.

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@Adam1234​ - Thank you for providing the example! In certain cases, thumbnails for featured videos may be manually applied by our Editorial team which is why they might differ from others. 

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@Maya​ oh ok, so is there no chance of updating it for this specific show? All the trailers came out in the 90s or early 2000s so the thumbnails are very low quality

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@Adam1234​ - Correct, they can only be from the current main trailer displaying on them. 

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