

Troubleshooting installation is beyond the scope of this tutorial, but you can post questions in the community forum and we’ll help you figure it out. If not you will get an error of some type. If it’s installed, you will get back a bunch of information about your configuration. (Famous last words right?) Test that it works with this: If you’ve got homebrew installed, all you need to do is this:

We’re going to use the homebrew method, because it makes installation simple if you already have homebrew installed. Let’s go over one simple way you can install FFMPEG so it starts working at the command line for you right away. If you have a Mac, there is an easy answer to this problem…hopefully. You’ll see a lot of people online asking why their installation doesn’t work. Sometimes an FFMPEG install can get complicated. Homebrew – installation of FFMPEG is much easier with homebrew Xcode – you can add this as part of a homebrew installationĪpi.video account – you can get one for FREE right here Homebrew – if you don’t have it we’ll include a little about installing it Mac that’s OSX10.7 or higher (as always, you can tweak the instructions for Linux or PC if you want to try that but it’s a Mac focused tutorial)

You can easily accomplish this with FFMPEG for Python. Sometimes, you might just want to quickly add a thumbnail that represents a frame from the video, and move on. But sometimes, you might not have the time to manually choose the perfect thumbnail for every video you create. If you have time, the best thumbnail for a video is going to be one where you choose something representative of the video’s content, and then add it. Thumbnails give people an initial impression of what your video is about. Video thumbnails have the power to make a video more watchable. Get the Code! Copied! Use a different Browser Blog Ĭreate a Thumbnail For Your Video with Python and FFMPEGĪp– Erikka Innes in Videos – Upload a Thumbnail, Python
