A video thumbnail sheet (also known as a video thumbnail grid or video thumbnail collage) is an image that displays a collection of smaller thumbnail images extracted from a video file. The thumbnail sheet is usually displayed as a single image file that provides a visual overview of the video's content. Each thumbnail image is usually taken at regular intervals throughout the video, and they are arranged in a grid or collage format.
Thumbnail sheets are commonly used for video previews or as a visual summary of a video's content. They can be useful for quickly scanning through a large number of videos to find the one that you are looking for, and they can also help to provide a more detailed preview of the content of a video than a single thumbnail image. Thumbnail sheets are often used in video management and editing software, as well as online video platforms and video-sharing websites.
Here is the free software you can use to create a video thumbnail sheet in Windows 10:
Thumbnail me
AMT – Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer
GDS Video Thumbnailer
ezthumb
Scenegrabber.NET
1] Thumbnail me
Thumbnail me is a free and open source software to create thumbnail sheets from videos on Windows 10. You just have to import a video and set up some configurations and this software will automatically create a video thumbnail sheet for you. It lets you customize a lot of parameters for making a video contact sheet including number of rows and columns, blank skip, output image format, quality, thumbnail title, font options, background color, timestamp options, etc.
Firstly, use its Load option to input a video file in a supported format like MP4, WMV, 3GP, AVI, MKV, MOV, FLV, etc. Now, set up some configuration and text style from the left panel. To check how the output thumbnail will look, click on the Preview selected file button and it will display the video thumbnail. You can make changes to configurations accordingly and then save the video thumbnail by tapping on the Start button.
2] AMT – Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer
AMT – Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer is a free video thumbnail sheet maker software for Windows 10. Using it, you can create thumbnails for a batch of videos. You can add a pattern to set up configurations for an output thumbnail sheet including number of thumbnails per row, length in seconds, etc. It lets you configure font settings, output image format, quality, size, background color, and other properties.
Simply import one or multiple video files in its Input tab and then set up various output parameters from the Layout and Settings tab. You can also see the preview of the output thumbnail sheet. When done, click on the Start Processing button.
3] GDS Video Thumbnailer
GDS Video Thumbnailer is a very simple freeware to create a video thumbnail sheet in Windows 10. You can make video thumbnails for multiple videos at once. Specify the number of rows and columns along with thumbnail size to create a video contact sheet. It also lets you import a custom background image to add to the output thumbnail. Plus, you can also customize video information, frame properties, font options, and more properties.
Firstly, go to the Input Files tab and add video files or folders. Then, customize several output configurations by going to Sheet, Video Frames, and File Info tabs. After that, select output file type (JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, or TIF) and image quality in the Output Files tab. Now, from the Generate tab, click on the GO! button to create a video contact sheet.
4] ezthumb
ezthumb is another video thumbnail sheet maker for Windows 10. It is a very easy-to-use and simple tool. You can just add one or more video files and then customize various thumbnail sheet settings in the Setup tab. It lets you configure grid settings, font options, picture format (JPG, GIF, PNG), etc. After that, you can click on the Run button in the Generate tab and it will create a video contact sheet for you.
This software lets you create a thumbnail sheet in the format of an Animated GIF. You can enter the frame rate for output animation and even make it transparent.
5] Scenegrabber.NET
Scenegrabber.NET is a freeware to create contact sheets for videos in Windows 10. You can import a video file by going to its File > Open File option. Next, select File > Options and set up output parameters including layout, timecode text, background, watermark, output format, details, etc. After that, click on the create screenshots button present on its toolbar. It will show you all the captured screenshots in the below section. You can delete a scene and edit or preview a thumbnail sheet. At last, simply hit the Save button to export the contact sheet.