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"

• ffmpeg to take a random frame from a video

• Imagemagick to write the text

• Firefox to open the image