Thumbnails from video files

[jsetsaas]

Hi,

I'm trying to create preview files from my Sony Alpha A580. I already have the following statement:
C:\bin\exiftool.exe -b -r -fast -ThumbnailImage "D:" -w "C:/Users/I045092/AppData/Local/DIA/Thumbs\%f.%e.jpg"
which creates thumbs from all .JPG and .RAW images.

But not from the movie files (MTS and MP4).

Any suggetions on how to retrieve these?
(They show up in Windows Explorer on Win7).

Best regards

John Erik

[Phil Harvey]

Hi John,

It could be that the video doesn't contain a JPEG thumbnail, and that Windows generates it from the video data itself.  Check to see if the thumbnail exists with "exiftool -thumbnailimage FILE".  I can tell you that MTS videos won't contain a thumbnail, but I can't say about MP4 without testing and I don't have access to my samples right now.

- Phil