Media Lab
Video thumbnail
Save a frame (or many) from a video as JPG, PNG or WebP.
- 1Add your MP4, WEBM, MOV, M4V or OGV file
- 2Pick options
- 3Click Run
- 4Download result
Limits
- Only formats your browser can play work (MP4/H.264 and WebM in most browsers; MOV only when it holds H.264). The tool does not convert video.
- Frames are taken by seeking the video, so the picture is the nearest decodable frame to the time you ask for (within a frame or so; some videos snap to the previous keyframe).
- At most 60 frames per run. Several frames come as a ZIP (plus the single files when there are 12 or fewer).
- Rotated phone videos are drawn the way the browser shows them, which is normally upright.
- A seek that gets stuck is stopped after 10 seconds with an error instead of hanging.
- Everything happens on this device; the file is never uploaded.
Ask the AI chat
The AI chat can run this tool for you. Try:
- “save a thumbnail from this video at 0:05”
- “grab a frame from my mp4 every 10 seconds”
- “extract 8 evenly spaced pictures from this video”