- You just bought a camera that shoots 10 bit footage.
Whenever you copy that footage to Windows 10,
you can't play it back.
Even when you use VLC media player
which normally plays back anything you throw at it,
the only thumbnails you see are traffic cones.
And whenever you click on it to play,
it's either super stuttery or it doesn't play at all.
Hey, my name is Matt Johnson
and today I'm gonna show you how to quickly go
from no thumbnail unplayable footage,
to beautiful preview thumbnails
and footage that plays back easily.
And you can do it with two completely free programs,
that are linked down below.
Let's start by getting this video clip playing back.
Now while I have traditionally loved VLC media player,
in this case, I've found
that it doesn't work well with 4k 10-bit video files.
So instead, I'm gonna recommend you download
the free mpv media player,
which you can download at MPV.IO .
Scroll down to the bottom of the page here to installation.
Then click windows builds by Shinchiro over at SourceForge.
Please do not be overwhelmed by all the options here.
You're gonna want to go down to click stable,
which is the stable version of this program.
And you're gonna want to click the top link here
which is going to be the latest version of this program.
This is gonna download a mpv dash
a bunch of numbers.7z file.
And you can open this file with the 7-zip software.
Its completely free, if you do not have it
you can download it at 7-zip.org.
On the homepage click download next to the 64-bit version
of this software.
Install 7-zip, and then you can right click
on the .7-Z file that you downloaded.
Go to the 7-zip menu,
and then click extract to "mpv- a bunch of numbers"
Once it's extracted, open up the folder,
and there we have the mpv.exe file.
We're almost there.
Remember where this program file is
because we're gonna have to come back to it in a second.
Now, navigate to some 10 bit footage that you have
that you cannot normally play.
Right click on the video file and go to open with,
choose another app.
This'll open up the how do you want to open this file box?
Scroll down to the bottom,
click more apps, scroll down again,
click look for another app on this PC.
And then we're gonna navigate
to where we saved that mpv.exe file.
Once you found the mpv.exe file,
select it and click open.
Ta-da you have now told Windows
to open your 10 bit video files with mpv
and it is playing back smoothly.
Awesome, one last step.
You now need to tell Windows that you always
want to open these video files with the mpv video player.
So, right click on your video file,
go to open with, choose another app,
this feels familiar.
Click on mpv, which is now available
and select always use this app to open MP4 files,
and click okay.
All right, now let's tackle the second issue.
Namely, even though the video file now plays back smoothly
in the mpv video player,
we still don't have a preview of thumbnail
for this video clip.
Let's fix that.
Open Google and search for Icaros thumbnail,
that's I C A R O S,
and then the link from videohelp.com
that says Icaros 3.1.0, click on that.
Alternatively I'll link to this exact page
down in the description below,
along with all the other software that I'm talking about.
This is gonna take you to a free tool called Icaros
which is gonna help windows generate thumbnails
for those video files.
Scroll down a little bit
and click download Icaros 3.1.0,
it may be a later version
depending on whenever you're watching this video
but that's what you want.
Navigate to the exe file for Icaros and install it.
We don't need to view the read me file
but we do want to launch Icaros config.
Click finish.
Last thing that we need to do here.
We're gonna go up here to preset
and we're gonna select video only
because we don't need thumbnails made for everything,
just for these videos.
Click yes.
We're gonna go over here to thumbnailing
and we're going to click on this deactivated
and now it says activated, minimize Icaros.
Check this out, go over here to our footage folder,
ta-da we got a thumbnail.
With that,
you now can play back your 10 bit video files in Windows 10
and you have thumbnail previews.
I really hope this video has been helpful to you.
It would be a huge help to me,
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if you wanna see more videos like it in the future.
Also, did you happen to see the video clip I was playing?
It was from a wedding.
If you happen to film weddings too,
you probably want to book more couples
and film more weddings.
To help you out with that, I've created a free guide,
that's gonna walk you through some practical steps
that you can take right now,
to book more couples and film more weddings.
Completely free gift to you,
you can download it
at the link down in the video description.
Thanks so much for watching and have a great day.