Titles and thumbnails

Great packaging is half the video. Titles and thumbnails live in the hero at the top of every project page, so you see the video the way viewers will.

The packaging hero

Packaging usually comes last, so the hero grows as it takes shape:

• Nothing yet: a compact header with a small dashed Add thumbnail slot. The project name is shown as the Working title.
• Options, no pick: once you upload thumbnail candidates, the slot becomes a strip. Click one to make it the chosen thumbnail.
• Packaged: the chosen thumbnail shows full size, laid out like it will look in the feed. Click it to change it. The title is labeled Final title once you have crowned one.

Short-form projects use a tall 9:16 cover and call the title a hook. Click Edit packaging under the description (or the thumbnail slot) to open the title options and thumbnails right under the hero, and Hide packaging to fold them away.

Title options

Under Edit packaging, add as many candidate titles as you like. When one wins, click the star to crown it: that title also becomes the project's title. Delete removes an idea.

Thumbnails

Under Edit packaging, upload a few thumbnail options (or Design in Canvas) and pick your favorite, either there or straight from the strip in the hero. The chosen thumbnail follows the project into publishing: when you schedule a video post with YouTube selected, the composer auto-fills it as the YouTube thumbnail (see Schedule and publish a post).

CoveDeck does not generate images, and neither does the assistant (we support human artists). The assistant can help with thumbnail concepts: text and hook overlays, facial-expression and composition direction, and color suggestions you can brief to an artist or use to design your own.