Requires imagemagick and ffmpeg to be installed. You probably also need the Helvetica-Bold font. Just tweak the script if it doesn't work!
Usage: ./thumbgen.sh "<video file>" <your title string>
At least for now, provide the path to your video file in quotes, so it doesn't mess up the arguments parsing.
Better yet, submit a PR that fixes this obvious oversight!
Run ./thumbgen.sh "your_cool_vid.mkv" Integrating a flux capacitor into our time machine!
And you should get an image like this:
Not perfect, but hey, beats trying to make it in GIMP!
It currently assumes any given video file is precisely 1920x1080FIXED- It likely has bugs
- The text will overflow if you type in any more than the example above^