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Grab a thumbnail from any video online — capture a poster frame at the exact moment you choose and save it as an image.

Select a video

Drag & drop a video here, or click to browse

Accepted: MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, AVI, M4V. Up to 20 MB.
Find the perfect frame

Click or drag along the filmstrip to scrub, then fine-tune with the step buttons — what you see is exactly what gets captured.

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How it works
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Upload the video you want a still from.
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Scrub the filmstrip to the exact moment — step by a tenth of a second for precision.
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Grab the frame — it is exported as a high-quality JPG. Capture as many as you like.
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About Video Thumbnail Grabber

The Video Thumbnail Grabber captures a still image from any moment of a video — a poster frame for YouTube, a preview image for a blog post, or just that one perfect expression. A filmstrip of the whole clip lets you scrub to roughly the right spot, then step buttons move a tenth of a second at a time for precision.

What you see in the player is exactly what gets captured. Each grabbed frame is exported on the server as a high-quality JPG and stacks up in a gallery on the page, so you can collect as many moments from one video as you like and download each one individually.

The grabber is free and accepts MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI and M4V files.

How to use Video Thumbnail Grabber

  1. Upload the video you want a still from.
  2. Click or drag along the filmstrip to scrub to the moment.
  3. Fine-tune with the step buttons — they move a tenth of a second at a time.
  4. Click Grab this frame; repeat for as many moments as you like.
  5. Download each captured frame as a high-quality JPG.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Every frame you grab is added to a gallery below the player — scrub, capture, scrub again. Each one downloads separately as its own JPG.

Very. Scrub the filmstrip to get close, then use the step buttons to nudge forward or back a tenth of a second at a time. The exact frame shown in the player is the one captured.

Yes, grabbing stills from a video is free, with no limit on how many frames you capture from a clip.

Frames are exported as high-quality JPGs at the video’s native resolution — a 1080p video yields a 1920×1080 image. Capture from the highest-resolution version of your video for the sharpest thumbnail.

Yes — the JPG output is exactly what YouTube’s custom thumbnail upload expects. Pick a frame with a clear subject and readable composition, and you can dress it up further in an image editor.

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