Which software to create thumbnail images from vids?

Hi,

What free software do you guys use to make those great thumbnail images, you know the images with 3 or 4 columns and 6 or so rows of mini screen caps of the vid.

I've been using Media Player Classic (version 6.4.9.0) and though it works most of the time, quite regulary it completely fails with a vid with the following error (restarting the program and trying again never helps, and yes I have made sure the renderers selected in the options are compatible with capturing): "GetCurrentImage failed, hr = 8004022e"

What alternative free software is available? Not free?

Thanks, regards, etc..

Never mind.

Since Abraxas has removed his post I may as well remove my response. Thanks anyway Abraxas, sorry if you got the wrong end of the stick, and thanks again for giving such detailed help (even if it was unnecessary, it was still kind of you to make a big effort).

IrfanView. Free of charge.

If you mean screens like these, I use Image Grabber.

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ozzy1234 wrote:
Many thanks.

andylo wrote:
Thanks. But are you sure you can make images like these (below) with IrfanView? I'm not just after a normal screen capture. If so how?

http://img7.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=36147_mountain_123_1090lo.jpg
http://img173.imagevenue.com/view.php?image=40209_sop_123_126lo.jpg

Thanks.

Don't bother replying about IrfanView, or any other suggestions, I've tried Image Grabber, as suggested by Ozzy, and it works very well even on the files that Media Player Classic fails with. All in all, an excellent addition to my video software collection. Many thanks Ozzy, it is just what I needed, and I recommend all video posters download it.

A usage hint. If you change the font for the file info. in the 'Options' to 'Courier' or 'Courier New', which are both 'fixed width fonts', you can then use spaces to make the 'file name', 'file size', 'dimensions', and 'length' details all allign themselves neatly.

Here's the download details, many thanks again Ozzy.

ozzy1234 wrote:

thanks mattstan the thread helped me too

a little bot off topic - what free software is there for cutting vids down for RS without adding massive amounts MB making the files tiny

thanks

bil wrote:
The most popular are:

1) WinRAR which creates a RAR archive. When creating the RAR you can specify 'Split to volumes' and enter a max size for each volume/part, for Rapidshare this would be 100MB (or just under to be on the safe side), this results in files like video.part1.rar, video.part2.rar, etc.
Url for trial (below) which has nags, but you'll find a cracked version in no time on the web or with torrent software.
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

2) HJSplit which simply splits the file into multiple parts with a .001, .002, etc., extension. Again you can specify the max size which for RS would obviously be 100MB again. It's free:
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/

To be thorough: 3) WinZip - same as WinRAR, but far inferior. Redundant really, WinRAR is the killler app. cos it handles .zip files too.

Neither adds MBs to the file size, WinRAR may reduce the overall size by a few MBs for big vids (but only if whoever encoded them did so badly).

Personally I prefer HJSplit, cos it's faster to use. Note WinRAR will TRY and compress the file, taking much more time, unless you choose 'Store' as the 'Compression level' which means 'just store the files, don't even try to compress them'.

If you use this forum reulary you'll need both WinRAR and HJSplit to rejoin the files others have split.

HTH.

BTW who is your avatar girl?

thanks Mattstan

what i call a proper reply


with this post you'll notice my new signature (i forgot to add with my avatar)

but as you ask
Valeria,
http://europeanglamourgirls.com/models/modelprofile.php?model=valeria

only recently found the site - and from some index searching n googlin
been told thats probably not her name, EGG.com namewack there models
eg. 'helena' on the site is actually hannah hunt, 'isis' is aka valleria (note 2L's)
what am sayin is if you find anythin let me know

bil wrote:
A quick search on EuroBabeIndex.com revealed Valleria:
http://www.eurobabeindex.com/sbandoindex/valleria.html

This is the same girl I think?

nope

thats 'isis' at EGG.com - she nice but not valeria (check the model listing)

believe me - i have people looking in to it
and they've looked in to that

mattstan wrote:


There is a command

Image -> Create panorama image

andylo wrote:
Oh yes, never noticed that, thanks.

It can't do thumb caps automatically from a video file, and you need to add the images manually, and there's no grid facility just either vertical or horizontal allignment. Still could be useful, many thanks.