Saturday, April 9, 2011

How to Make Thumbnail Photos from Videos

Here's a cool app to make sequential thumbnails from video clips (see image below). Its, not surprisingly, called Movie Thumbnailer. This is a command line application i.e no user interface is provided. However, it can be used without opening the command prompt in Windows.










Run it through Windows Explorer
1. Download Movie Thumbnailer.
2. Unzip all the files to a folder. Look for an executable file named mtn.exe.
3. Just drag and drop the video on the mtn.exe file. An image will be generated in that directory.

This method obviously has its caveats; the generated image will always have 3 columns, the image width is always the same.

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