Generate thumbnails from list of .mp4 videos in folder

generate_thumbnails_from_video.py

# run as 
# python generate_thumbnails_from_video.py path/to/directory

import os
import sys

# using moviepy
from moviepy.editor import *
from PIL import Image

# directory of video files param
sourceDirectory = sys.argv[1]

directoryList = os.listdir(sourceDirectory)

for video in directoryList:

  if video.endswith('.mp4'):
    clip = VideoFileClip(sourceDirectory + '/' + video) 
    
    # getting only first 2 seconds 
    clip = clip.subclip(0, 2) 

    # saving a frame at 1 second 
    clip.save_frame("tempFile.png", t = 1) 

    # Convert to JPG
    im = Image.open("tempFile.png")
    rgb_im = im.convert('RGB').save(sourceDirectory + '/exports/' + video + '.jpg', quality=30)

    print('processed', format(video))