Why spending 30 seconds to do something when you can spend 5 hours automating it? -- A programmer
This is a bash script to automatically generate youtube thumbnails. It takes a video, a title and a subtitle. It will take a random frame from the video, blur it and add the text with a little shadow behind.
./generate.sh test_video.mkv "THIS IS AUTOGENERATED" "WITH A SIMPLE BASH SCRIPT"
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ffmpeg
to take a random frame from a video -
Imagemagick
to write the text -
Firefox
to open the image