Create smart thumbnails from your source videos

Introduction

Smart Thumbnails is a feature that automatically selects the most visually compelling frame from your video to use as a thumbnail. Instead of manually scrubbing through footage and guessing which frame will look best, Qencode uses a two-stage AI analysis pipeline to find the optimal still image — one that looks great in a feed, clearly shows the subject, and makes viewers want to click.

Launch a Job with the "smart_thumbnail" Output

Smart Thumbnail outputs can be created by adding an 'smart_thumbnail' output format to your transcoding job. In order to do this, use the /v1/start_encode2 method to launch a transcoding job with the output parameter set to smart_thumbnail.

Request Example

{
  "query": {
    "encoder_version": 2,
    "source": "YOUR_VIDEO_URL",
    "format": [
      {
        "output": "smart_thumbnail",
        "destination": [
          {
            "url": "YOUR_STORAGE_URL",
            "key": "YOUR_KEY",
            "secret": "YOUR_SECRET",
            "permissions": "public-read"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

1. On the Transcode Media page choose Smart Thumbnails as an output format.
2. Set the Image Format, Width, Height and Total Thumbnails values on the Output Settings form.
3. Specify the full output path including file name where the result file will be saved in the Output Path field.

Need More Help?

For additional information, tutorials, or support, visit the Qencode Documentation page or contact Qencode Support at support@qencode.com.