Sony PSP Custom Thumbnails for Movies

Contributor Icon Contributed by seamonkey420 Date Icon April 3, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: Games

Here’s quickie guide i thought other PSP users might find useful. How to get your own custom thumbnails for movies on your PSP using Photoshop.


Requirements:

-Video/Movie file converted/encoded w/PSP Video 9 to PSP format
-Image/Photo to be used as thumbnail
-Photoshop 9 or above

Maybe your like me and a custom-nerd, meaning you gotta have things your way.
Well, i wanted my video files to have a nice movie/cover art thumb vs the default one that PSP Video 9 create. So i searched around and found a site that had some info and thought i’d share it here.

Here’s an example of my Hackers movie and a custom thumbnail I created for it.

Step 1. Create your thumbnail using Photoshop. Try to create at Width: 160px x Height: 120px, Resolution: 72 pixel/inch, since this is the size we will the saving the jpg as.

Step 2. Once your done with your image, in Photoshop, go to File > Save for Web

Then in the Save For Web box, change the settings in red and then click Save.

Step 3. Finally, we will need to rename the .jpg file we just created to be the same file name as the movie but with the .THM extension. So for my Hackers movie, the movie name that PSP Video 9 gave it is:

M4V10044.MP4 and also it created a M4V10044.THM file.

We want to delete that M4V10044.THM file and rename our .jpg to M4V10044.THM (its the default thumbnail created for the movie by PSP Video 9, the movie name we use in PSP Video 9 gets saved into the MP4 itself)

Then just transfer the movie (be sure to keep your MP4 and THM files together) to your PSP and Voila! Your own custom Movie/Video cover art

peace
seamonkey420

ps my site is being updated w/more PSP tips/hints/guides…
http://seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com/

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  • mickeythepiker
    i did everything on your guide and the image shows up on my computer as being in the memory stick but it still will not show up on my psp. do you know what chould cause this to happen.
  • Anonymous
    <ul id="quote"><h6>mickeythepiker wrote:</h6>i did everything on your guide and the image shows up on my computer as being in the memory stick but it still will not show up on my psp. do you know what chould cause this to happen.</ul>
    Yo! My man! If the thumbnail is larger than like 8kb, then it will not show up, i discovered this the hard way. (oh and by the way, I used MS paint, none of this "photoshop" nonsense)
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