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Generate thumbnails from videos
Automatically create preview thumbnails from video files at specific timestamps or intervals.
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Colab runs it in your browser. If it calls a model provider, it asks for that provider's API key in a cell.
How it works
You add computed columns that extract frames from videos. Thumbnails are generated automatically when you insert new videos.
What it covers
- Extract thumbnail at a specific timestamp
- Generate multiple thumbnails per video
- Resize thumbnails to standard dimensions
What it uses
- Install
- terminalpip install pixeltable
- Pixeltable calls
pxt.create_table()pxt.create_view()insert()add_computed_column()
A look at the code
video-generate-thumbnails.ipynb
# Extract frame at 1 second as thumbnailvideos.add_computed_column(thumbnail=pxtf.video.extract_frame(videos.video, timestamp=1.0))
One cell of the notebook, copied as it is. Open it in Colab for the rest.
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