Tools: Video Thumbnail Maker

pengkuang

For a single video, the easiest way seems to use MPC or PotPlayer (FFmpeg is also fine, but less easy to use command line obviously)

For lots of videos, bulk making thumbnails scenario, these two programs are pretty good:
1. Video Thumbnails Maker
All the details of it seems superior to many competing alternatives. the only downside is that thumbnails generated by the free version have random owl logo. (If anyone mind it, →HERE←'s a cracked platinum version. Afraid of trojan? →HERE←'s the scan report or just use offcial free version)

2. AMT – Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer
Open source! another popular bulk video thumbnails maker.

3. Other choices: Ezthumb, Thumbnail me, Image Grabber II .NET, MoviePrint…..etc but seems all not as good as the two above.

(have seen one member asking about it, so share them here in case….)

Sample:

erich214

Thank you for this! Gonna go with the open source option

simon92

Thanks! going to give it a try

eonflux

Thank you so much for your generous post. :love:

I would love to support VTM legally but I do not trust the registration process.
The app makes a hash of you computer. You send that string to the author he gives you a registration code.
That same hash could be encoded somehow in to the thumbs you made tracing them back to you.

m4st3r

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fredfranco

Thanks a lot for the options.

I used to use thumbnails.me. It's good, but doesn't allow you to make more than 10-12 thumbanils at a time...not to mention it fills your taskbar up with codec files.

m4st3r

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knoxguy89

any that are mac friendly?

quteass

Hey there. None of these are compatible with MAC. Any suggestions?

john32123666

Video Thumbnails Maker is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS
with similar functionality.

Important :
you should read details and specifications first and go to official site b4 downloading ...
while some Freeware software offers bundle and 3rd party app.
[there's no guarantee, rather than skip] ...
or do a web-search ...

quteass

Thanks so much. Has anyone successfully used these? Unfortunately the first one on the list in the link provided actually isn't for MAC iOS. It's for windows. Skreenics will only work for MP4 and the rest on the list are just screen grab applications. The app Thumbs is malware. So I'm back at square 1.

bruh1

More people need to know this

m4st3r

I found a new one that is quite amazing as a video library tool, and it can export thumbnails as well:
Video Peek

Shepard69

@m4st3r said:

I found a new one that is quite amazing as a video library tool, and it can export thumbnails as well:
Video Peek

Note: Built for Windows.

ianfontinell

@m4st3r said:

I found a new one that is quite amazing as a video library tool, and it can export thumbnails as well:
Video Peek

this shit is shady af

m4st3r

@ianfontinell why shady? I saw a post on reddit about it and installed through the microsoft store and it's been great

ianfontinell

@m4st3r i just saw too many red flags that my brain instantly entered danger mode...

entire website & page content are created with AI.
it claims to be free, with no ads and no telemetry, but the code is proprietary so none of those claims can be validated without reverse-engineering the program.
the main domain was created less than a year ago and is not configured.
the app itself was released just 2 days ago and there is no community page or anywhere else dedicated to report bugs and feedback.
there is not a single identifiable individual person involved anywhere in the process of developing and distributing this program.

In short you cannot know who developed it, where they're based, you cannot access the code, totally shady behavior. It could be legit, of course, maybe it's just a series of unfortunate decisions that accidentaly make the people involved in this untraceable.

eonflux

@ianfontinell
I was just going to make a comment about this and you nailed it even in more detail. It's a bad idea just to have software sitting on your pc that is responsible for sensitive personal information, and there is no Github for the code. That doesn’t mean it's 100% safe but more likely malicious code to be found.

This is better option: https://mosaicvideo.github.io/

m4st3r

@ianfontinell that's a really fair assessment. I thought being in the microsoft store would make it safe enough... what I can tell is that it looks and works like the screenshots, I also checked my firewall and I don't see any network requests or any issues so far but I guess we'll see lol