How can I get thumbnails from first frame of a set of videos?

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How can I get thumbnails from first frame of each video in a set of videos? I am using Windows.

Fastest way to generate video thumbnail of particulate size by FFMPEG — p2or, Commented Dec 7, 2016 at 14:41
To the OP, if you're going to use the command in the link, omit the -ss 4 part, so you'll get the first frame. — Gyan, Commented Dec 7, 2016 at 16:35
@Mulvya could you exactly tell me where and how should I type the command? — Mohammad, Commented Dec 17, 2016 at 21:35

Gyan · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-18 04:46:15Z

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The command to get a thumbnail from the first frame of a video is

ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -vframes 1 -vf "scale=360:-1" small_thumnail.png

The scale filter is set to resize the image to 360 px width and choose height so that image proportion is maintained.

answered Dec 18, 2016 at 4:46

Gyan

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where should I put the command? I've never work with FFmpeg yet!
– Mohammad
Commented Dec 19, 2016 at 7:58
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If you've never used the command prompt before, see computerhope.com/issues/chusedos.htm
– Gyan
Commented Dec 19, 2016 at 9:20

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