Bases: Video file thumbnails as card view covers

[peeragetalkers]

Use case or problem

The Bases card view is a wonderful tool for creating image galleries.

In the card view configuration, If you set the image property to file (or to a formula that extracts the first image embed in a note) then images will show up as card covers.

Sadly, this doesn’t work for video files, which will show nothing:

Proposed solution

Automatically extract video file thumbnails and have them show up as card covers (if configured such by the user—same as with image files).

Bonus points: show on top of thumbnails to distinguish them from regular images.

Home run: make videos playable right from within card view.

Current workaround (optional)

• One could extract a thumbnail image for each video and place it in the designated cover property but that would be too cumbersome.
• A plugin that automates this process could be created.

[blue_emperor]

Related:

Allow PDFs as card image in Base

Use case or problem For collections of notes with embedded PDF documents, to be able to display the first page (or selectable page, and/or a scrollable window of many pages) of the PDF indicated in a frontmatter key as cards in a Base. Proposed solution Similar to the new 1.9.3 cards feature that displays an image. Ideally, indicate the page number to display, like “[[PDFfile.pdf#page=3]]” Current workaround (optional) None. Related feature requests (optional) None found.

(could be merged to “support more file types in card images in bases”)

[peeragetalkers]

Featured Image automatically sets a featured image property based on the first image, YouTube link, or Auto Card Link image found in note.

I filed a feature request for it to add support for video file embeds.