Video Thumbnail Tool

[boynation]

I am using Sorenson Squeeze to compress my videos. I thought that there was a way within Sorenson to do Video Thumbnails at the same time, but can't seem to find how to do that.

If there is a way within this program and you know how to do this, please let me know. If not and you know of another program that does this well, please advise. I am looking to create a lot of thumbnails, so whatever tool I use needs to do it efficiently.

Thanks for your advise!

Laurence

[Lee]

I use FrameShots for vid thumbs, nice and easy to use too, Google it, i think it was only like $20 or something.

Regards,

Lee

[boysinboys]

ffmpeg+x264. It's painful to set up, but free and very quick. To create a thumbnail you just give it a quick command like

ffmpeg -i videoin.avi -ss 00:00:25 -vframes 1 -y outputfile.jpg

Where it's one frame @ 25 seconds into the clip. Properly compiled ffmpeg will support most every video format in existence.
-doug

[Hexdecimal]

MPEG Stream Clip works fairly well.. just choose the output as Image Sequence, then change the Frame per second to 1 and press Preview to see what you're going to get. It makes lots of images, so make sure you choose the output directory properly or you'll have a flood of images on the desktop like I did once.

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[boynation]

Just wanted to thank you all for your suggestions!

Laurence

[x0pa]

i like cocothumbx

[attis]

Looks like all those programs can't handle flv vids (maybe I missed something), which we are using almost exclusively now.

I searched for a tool for flv vids and found IM FLV Thumbnail. Can anyone share some experiences about this program? Also any other recommendations are welcome.