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Create readable, truthful video thumbnails and covers with Magic Hour, preserving supplied faces and products and testing composition at small display size. Use for YouTube thumbnails, Shorts covers, or episode covers, not a general product catalog set.

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# Magic Hour thumbnails

Make the actual topic legible in a small image. Visual drama is useful only if the viewer can identify the subject and the promised content exists in the video.

Infer the hook from supplied content and recommend one composition; do not require a technical prompt or a long creative interview. Honor existing spending authorization and delegated creative decisions while respecting requested draft approvals. Show the finished cover first. For concept selection, editable headlines and series reuse, read [cover design](references/cover-design.md).

## Find the honest visual hook

Read the supplied title, transcript, outline or footage. Choose one specific tension, comparison or outcome that it supports. Do not invent a result, reaction, endorsement, screenshot or person to make the cover more clickable. Use an authorized source image when face or product identity matters.

Build a composition around one dominant subject and one supporting cue. Put optional exact copy in a separate layout layer. Let copy complement the title rather than restating a long sentence; preserve supplied wording unless adaptation is authorized. Use the destination's actual aspect ratio and overlay regions; a thumbnail and a vertical cover need separately reviewed layouts.

## Generate only the needed visual
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