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FFMPEG Command to Extract Video Screenshot or Thumbnail at a Specific Time Interval in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -ss 01:23:45 -i input -frames:v 1 -q:v 2 output.jpg
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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take uh the thumbnail or a screenshot of
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a video at a particular location or a
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particular time interval so let's
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suppose I have this video file right in
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the terminal
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1.mpp4 so if you want to create or take
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the screenshot hello guys take the
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screenshot of this video at a particular
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time interval so there is a command in
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ffmppg which will do this automatically
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for you so just open the terminal right
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here just write here
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ffmpg
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dash here we need to provide the
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starting time here so which time
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interval you need to take the screenshot
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or the image or the thumbnail so we will
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simply provide the particular time here
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so 1 minute 23
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second so you can see that
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so my video if you if I open this video
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it is 2 minute uh long video
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so I just need to provide a particular
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time period in which the screenshot will
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be taken
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so
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so you will see 1 minute 32 second we
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have provided this time so dash I again
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we need to provide the name of the video
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so 1 dot
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mp4 and
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then after that we just need to provide
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uh dash
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frames colon v
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uh 1 and then we just need to say dash q
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colon
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v 2 and then the image file which will
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get created so this is the command here
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just pause the video and just write this
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in the first section here we are
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providing the particular time interval
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then we are providing this input file
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-ash i and then dash frames colon v 1
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dash q col v2 and this is your output
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image file so just copy this command and
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just execute this so now what happens if
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you see it the image file is
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automatically generated so it will take
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the screenshot at that particular time
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interval in this video so you can see
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that frame is created this is your
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thumbnail so this is really useful
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because if you are uploading some kind
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of videos to social media if you want to
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take the thumbnail at that particular
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location in the video so this command
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will be very much useful so just you
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need to part uh input the time interval
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at that
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particular you just need to specify the
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time here and then it will automatically
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take the screenshot and then save this
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image so let me just change the image
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file here output2 jpg so you can see
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that so now this is the different
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screenshot at that
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particular time interval so this was the
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command very useful ffmpg command i've
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given this command in the description of
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