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    Video
    Thumbnails
    Converter

    Pull 12 evenly spaced thumbnails from a video right on this page. The video plays from your device in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and each thumbnail downloads as a JPEG. The page also covers generating thumbnails across a video library through an API.

    Max file size: No set limit; the video plays from your device
    Estimated: A few seconds, in your browser
    3 input formats

    Pull thumbnails from a video here

    Runs in your browser. The file stays on your device and nothing is uploaded.

    Drop an MP4, WebM or MOV file here, or choose one from your device.

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    How It Works

    1

    Drop an MP4, WebM or MOV file onto the reader at the top of this page, or choose one. The video plays from your device in your browser.

    2

    The reader splits the video into 12 equal parts and takes the frame from the middle of each, which keeps clear of the first and last moments, where many videos fade from or to black.

    3

    Each frame is drawn at up to 480 pixels wide and saved as a JPEG.

    4

    Download any thumbnail, or the JSON that lists every thumbnail's timestamp and size.

    5

    For a whole library, the API code below runs an extractor over every video in a bucket on Mixpeek's servers and stores the output as documents you can search.

    Code Examples

    import os, requests
    
    API = "https://api.mixpeek.com"
    H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['MIXPEEK_API_KEY']}",
         "X-Namespace": os.environ["NAMESPACE_ID"]}
    
    # 1. a bucket, with a schema that declares the field you will send
    bucket = requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets", headers=H, json={
        "bucket_name": "video-inputs",
        "bucket_schema": {"properties": {"video": {"type": "video"}}},
    }).json()
    
    # 2. land the file as an object. the URL goes in data, on the blob
    requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets/{bucket['bucket_id']}/objects", headers=H, json={
        "key_prefix": "run-1",
        "blobs": [{"property": "video", "type": "video",
                   "data": "https://example.com/clip.mp4"}],
    })
    
    # 3. a collection over that bucket, running the extractor
    collection = requests.post(f"{API}/v1/collections", headers=H, json={
        "collection_name": "video-to-thumbnails",
        "source": {"type": "bucket", "bucket_ids": [bucket["bucket_id"]]},
        "feature_extractor": {"feature_extractor_name": "multimodal_extractor", "version": "v1"},
    }).json()
    
    # 4. run extraction over the bucket
    requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets/{bucket['bucket_id']}/batches", headers=H, json={
        "collection_ids": [collection["collection_id"]],
        "auto_submit": True,
    })
    
    # 5. read the output
    docs = requests.get(
        f"{API}/v1/collections/{collection['collection_id']}/documents", headers=H
    ).json()
    print(docs)

    Use Cases

    Auto-generate thumbnails for video hosting platforms
    Create preview images for e-commerce product videos
    Build visual navigation tiles for streaming apps
    Generate social media preview images from video content

    Supported Input Formats

    MP4
    WebM
    MOV

    Quick Info

    Categorymedia
    Max File SizeNo set limit; the video plays from your device
    Est. TimeA few seconds, in your browser

    Processing millions of hours of video?

    Run this as a managed pipeline over your entire video archive, no infrastructure to build or maintain. Talk to us about processing at scale.

    Run it over a library

    Mixpeek runs this conversion as a pipeline over a whole library in your object storage, with the output landing as queryable documents. The reader on this page handles one file at a time.

    Frequently Asked Questions

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