diff --git a/server/controllers/api/v1/videos.js b/server/controllers/api/v1/videos.js
index 5bdfdbf58..641fef6ea 100644
--- a/server/controllers/api/v1/videos.js
+++ b/server/controllers/api/v1/videos.js
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ function addVideo (req, res, next) {
         return next(err)
       }
 
-      videos.getVideoThumbnail(videoFile.path, function (err, thumbnailName) {
+      videos.createVideoThumbnail(videoFile.path, function (err, thumbnailName) {
         if (err) {
           // TODO: unseed the video
           logger.error('Cannot make a thumbnail of the video file.')
diff --git a/server/lib/videos.js b/server/lib/videos.js
index 7da4b11d2..154c31ef9 100644
--- a/server/lib/videos.js
+++ b/server/lib/videos.js
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const videos = {
   createRemoteVideos: createRemoteVideos,
   getVideoDuration: getVideoDuration,
   getVideoState: getVideoState,
-  getVideoThumbnail: getVideoThumbnail,
+  createVideoThumbnail: createVideoThumbnail,
   removeVideosDataFromDisk: removeVideosDataFromDisk,
   removeRemoteVideos: removeRemoteVideos,
   seed: seed,
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ function getVideoState (video) {
   return { exist: exist, owned: owned }
 }
 
-function getVideoThumbnail (videoPath, callback) {
+function createVideoThumbnail (videoPath, callback) {
   const filename = pathUtils.basename(videoPath) + '.jpg'
   ffmpeg(videoPath)
     .on('error', callback)