HOWTO: turn views "Thumbnail Linked to Node" field into a Popup link

This is the best option I found. If anyone has done this by editing the views field settings or using javascript, please post.

in video/types/uploadfield/uploadfield-formatter.inc, line 82 reads :

  $class = 'uploadfield uploadfield-nodelink uploadfield-'. $element['#field_name'];

Include a 'popups' class here. I changed it to

  $class = 'popups uploadfield uploadfield-nodelink uploadfield-'. $element['#field_name'];

And, if popups is configured correctly, this will create a popup to your node.

I used javascript / css to hide all of the node's page elements and just show the title / video.

Cheers,