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Thumbnail generator


On Wistia, when you click Download for a specific video, a number of size options appear. But what's really great is that there's also an option to download an image. When you click it, it downloads a 1920 x 1080 jpg of whatever frame you selected as the thumbnail for that video. It says me a TON of time. I no longer have to do a screen grab of a specific frame, deal with either the play arrow overlay of the player controls at the bottom of the image. Probably save me 5-mins or more of tedious work. Wondering if there's a way on JWP to do the same thing. It use to be you could download a jpg of a storyboard of your video [not really sure what use that was], so if they can do that it only seems logical they could do what Wistia is doing. Oh, and Wistia also allows you to select virtually any frame to be the thumbnail, not one each 30 secs or so of the video.

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Todd

JW Player Support Agent  
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I know we exchanged a few e-mails about this this morning, but in attempt to be helpful in the forums as well, we make the thumbnails available via a template URL. Once you know the media ID of the video and the width of the poster image you want, you can get the direct image. Please see https://developer.jwplayer.com/jw-platform/reference/v1/urls/thumbs.html for more details.

As for the other stuff, I will escalate this to our product manager.

Todd

JW Player Support Agent  
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Just wanted to close the loop on this thread. The product manager reports that the ability to download the thumbnails is on their radar.

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