Thread: How do I make thumbnail from .mp4 movie?

Should not be that difficult. It' all build in. In QT Player 7 scroll to the frame your want. Do Copy (Cmd-C). The image is now on the clipboard. Open an image editor and make a file from clipboard. Crop/Resize/Save the file. OR In QT player scroll to the frame you want. Do Cmd-Shift-4 and then hit the spacebar. Click when your see the camera. (Cmd-Shift-Control-4 to copy...

Thanks--very helpful! I got that to work but the thumbnail has the player control bar across the bottom of the image. Is there a way to do this so that doesn't show? imac G5 Mac OS X (10.6.1)...

Use Command - Shift - 4 keystrokes to turn your cursor into "crosshairs" so you can drag across any area to fine turn your screen capture. When combined with the "spacebar" it captures the entire window (controller and title bar). iMac 3.06, (Mac mini and G3 given to the grandkids)...

If your using QT X then Command-click will hide the controller and titlebar. Otherwise, Crop is the magic word. 24" Alu iMac 4GB RAM 500GB HDD Mac OS X (10.6.1)...

Yep. Works just fine in QuickTime X. Good call. iMac 3.06, (Mac mini and G3 given to the grandkids) Mac OS X (10.6.1)...