This Simple Video Thumbnail Utility Saves a TON of Time!
Published: Sat, 01/09/21
Quite often, when I am working on a project, I need to embed a video onto a website, and I need a thumbnail to go with it. Typically, that means one of two things.
If the video is one of mine, on one of my channels, I will go into YT studio, and download the thumbnail from there. But there are a couple issues with this. First, the image is fairly low resolution, and is square, with big black bars above and below the image.
This means that I then have to crop that image in an editor... and it's still pretty low resolution.
The other option is that I just don't bother putting a thumbnail... lazy, I know.
Well, this morning, I came across a new tool from Matthew McDonald, that is really cool. It's called Video Thumb Inspector, and what it does is allows you to grab ANY (not just your own) YT thumbnail, in a variety of sizes, including the animated gif previews that YouTube has.
This is a really cool little tool, that I know will be a big help for me, and I thought it might be for you as well, especially considering the price...
