How to Create and Change Video Cover on Facebook
By Liza Brown
Jun 29,2017 16:24 pm
A stunning Facebook video cover would help you attract the attention of your audience and lure them to find out more about you and your company and view more of your Facebook videos. In today’s post we are going to tell you everything about how to change the cover of your videos on your Facebook profile, page and timeline.
- How to Create Video Cover In Facebook Profile
- How to Change Video Cover in Facebook Timeline
- How to Create and Change Video Cover in Facebook Page
How to Create Video Cover in Facebook Profile
Facebook lets its users create a profile video up to 7 seconds in length. The animated profile video would only be visible to people who are looking at your profile page so you can be rest assured that it isn’t going to appear on the News Feed of your friends or followers. In the steps given below, we would discuss how to create a cover for your Facebook profile video.
- Once you have updated to the latest version of Facebook on your iOS device, you need to open the FB app and tap the ‘More’ button in the bottom right.
- Tap the ‘View your profile’ button on top.
- On the bottom right corner of your profile picture, you will be seeing a video camera icon. Tap it.
- A menu would open which would allow you to record a new profile video or upload an existing one. Choose either of the options, and allow the application to access your camera and photos.
- The ‘Trim’ button would allow you to adjust the length of your video. Tap the ‘Trim’ button and drag in on either side to shorten the video length. There is also an option of turning the sound on or off.
- You can also tap the Crop button at the bottom of the page to make the video square if necessary.
- Now tap the Cover button to select a frame for your video which would act as the video thumbnail in Facebook for use as profile picture in the News Feed of your friends and followers. After selecting the cover just tap Use and your video is all set to be displayed on your profile page.
Learn more about how to make Facebook Profile Cover Video
How to Change Video Cover in Facebook Timeline
Step 1: After uploading the video you will get a message telling you that the video is now available for view. Now go to your timeline, click the ‘More’ option and then click ‘Videos’
Step 2: Find out your new video. Now in the top right corner you will see a pencil icon. Click it and then select ‘Edit this video’.
Step 3: You will find options for adding tags, thumbnails and descriptions along with options for changing the video title. Pick the one you like and click the ‘Save’ button.
How to Create and Change Video Cover in Facebook Page
Step 1: Click ‘share a photo or video’ button on the top of your Page’s timeline
Step 2: Click ‘Upload photo/video’ and choose a video from your PC
Step 3: You can type an update (optional) and then enter the video tags and video title
Step 4: Choose a thumbnail by clicking the arrows on the video preview or click ‘Add Custom Thumbnail’ and choose a special cover
Step 5: Click the Publish button.
The uploaded videos would appear in your video library. In case you want to change the cover later you need to do the following:
- Click the ‘Publishing Tools’ on the top of your FB Page
- Click the ‘Video Library’ on the left
- Check the box beside the video you want to edit
- In the Basic tab, choose Custom for selecting a new video cover
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Looks good. When I post with Facebook guidelines it looks like crap.
How to turn off the pinned cover video? It covers almost 1/2 of the screen. It is so annoying! Please help me ...
Of course you can make a Facebook video with Filmora first and then upload it to Facebook Page. You can get the detailed information about how to make a Facebook video with Filmora in https://filmora.wondershare.com/video-editing-tips/video-maker-for-facebook.html. Or you can check the Facebook Guide on the Left Side Bar in this web page to get more information about Facebook. Hope it helps.
am i supposed to use Filmora software to create a video cover of facebook like this https://web.facebook.com/pertexroofing?_rdc=1&_rdr someone to answer me thank you
Have you tried to select the Upload photo/video option at the top of your Facebook Page just as shown below: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/03d70748ca43951603abd8a6529067fc681e8eb10ef6b616d32a8036b47caef5.jpg
I used Filmora to edit and crop the video to 820*312 but when I uploaded it, the video display not correcly. Finally I uploaded a 1920×1080 and it scaled it for me automatically, i just had to move it up or down before clicking next > OK. Here it is https://www.facebook.com/ThiepCuoiPhuQuy/
I got the option to re-appear by navigating to another page and coming back. I've uploaded my video but it's showing as an image and not playing the video.
I am trying to put cover video for my company facebook page. How do I set video as cover after it is published?
I use Sony Vegas, it's a video editing program. You just set the dimensions of the video project, and that way you can render it out with those dimensions once you are done editing it.
Have you tried it again? Is it OK now?