Bulk Produce Eye-Catching YouTube Thumbnails
This video shows how you with free and available tools can make a massive amount of YouTube thumbnail photos very fast.
-------------------- PerfectColor -------------------------
PerfectColor can be downloaded for free from:
https://www.evenlund.com/perfect-colo...
I recommend you watch this video to get up and running with PerfectColor:
• Elevate Your Visuals with These Tips for P...
-------------------- FFMPEG-------------------------
FFmpeg could easily be installed by uncompressing a prebuilt version to a folder of your liking and adding this link to your path.
ffmpeg could be downloaded from these two sites:
https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds...
I run this command from Windows prompt after install:
ffmpeg -i ..\thumbnails.mp4 -q:v 1 -qmin 1 -qmax 1 thumb%d.jpg
-------------------- Video chapters-------------------------
00:00 - How to mass produce thumbnails for YouTube
00:07 - Step 1 - Record a video with different poses and a colorchecker (optional)
00:54 - Step 2 - Do video color correction with PerfectColor and your favorite video editor
01:38 - Step 3 - Use ffpmeg to separate all frames from video to separate pictures
03:00 - Step 4 - Remove background from selected photos in Powerpoint
04:48 - Step 5 - Extract photos from Powerpoint and use in favorite thumbnail editor
05:51 - Outro