Auto Generate Thumbnails for All Videos Inside Folder with FFmpeg

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What I want

• I have a folder including over 3000 videos and I want to generate 3000 thumbnails corresponding for those videos.
• Each thumbnail image has size is 480x320

Input Folder including .mp4 Videos

How it works

With each videos, It will seek to the position of 00h:00m:03sec of the video and capture one frame (-vframes 1) then save it into a JPG file => Then Repeat that jobs until done.

Run this command from your terminal

for f in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -ss 00:00:03 -vframes 1 -s 480x320 "${f%.mp4}.jpg"; done

generated thumbnails FOR ALL VIDEOS INSIDE FOLDER (capture thumbnails at 00:00:03) with size -s 480x320

For more information. Check it out at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20thumbnail%20image%20every%20X%20seconds%20of%20the%20video

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