{"id":390,"date":"2006-09-20T18:30:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/20\/how-to-make-sequential-thumbnails-of-a-video-using-free-tools\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T12:39:11","slug":"how-to-make-sequential-thumbnails-of-a-video-using-free-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/20\/how-to-make-sequential-thumbnails-of-a-video-using-free-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make sequential thumbnails of a video using free tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

This tutorial will guide you to make sequential thumbnails or screenshots of a video file. Sequential thumbnail means it will autometically take screenshots from a video after some interval and scale them to a smaller size. <\/p>\n

Our result will have a single image page containing several thumbnails or screenshots from a video. A great thing if you are sharing a video. People always wants to see what is in a video before they download it.<\/p>\n

First we need to install a free software (open source) called Media Player Classic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Download:
\n
\nMedia Player Classic for Windows XP and Windows 2000<\/a>
\nMedia Player Classic for Windows ME and Windows 98<\/a><\/p>\n

The software doesnt even need any installation. Simply extract the .zip and run the mplayerc.exe<\/strong>
\n\"Video<\/p>\n

This brings up the Media Player Classic.
\n\"Media<\/p>\n

Now lets open our video file. Click on File > Quick Open File…<\/strong>
\n\"Video<\/p>\n

Browse to the file and open it.
\n\"Media<\/p>\n

Now click on File > Save Thumbnails…<\/strong>
\n\"Media<\/p>\n

This brings up the Save As<\/strong> dialogue box.
\n\"Video<\/p>\n

Note the thumbnail settings. This determines the size of the thumbnail page and how many thumbnails will be generated.<\/p>\n

The above setting shows there will be 4 columns and 4 rows of thumbnails totalling (4×4=) 16 thumbnails. And the thumbnail page width will be 1024 pixels.<\/p>\n

Now lets change the setting to have 6 rows and 5 columns of thumbnails totalling (6×5=) 30 thumbnails. Also setting the thumnail page to be of width 600 pixels.
\n\"Media<\/p>\n

The image should be saved as JPEG (.jpg) to reduce the file size.
\n\"Video<\/p>\n

Click on the Save<\/strong> button to save it.
\n\"Save<\/p>\n

And we have our thumbnails
\n\"Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This tutorial will guide you to make sequential thumbnails or screenshots of a video file. Sequential thumbnail means it will autometically take screenshots from a video after some interval and scale them to a smaller size. Our result will have a single image page containing several thumbnails or screenshots from a video. A great thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[90,40,141,304,29,39,142],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tips","category-tutorials","tag-free-tools","tag-how-to","tag-screenshot","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}