AMT - Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer

AMT - Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer is a software application that enables you to create screencaps and thumbnail index pictures from any movie found in a specified location, and comes with support for many file formats.

Expert oriented layout

The interface you come across leaves a lot to be desired, as its design is not particularly appealing and it is quite cluttered with many options, buttons and drop-down menus. It is built with a few tabs so that you can easily access all the different operations available, yet it is still mainly dedicated to power users.

Filter the search process and enable logging

This program enables you to search your hard drive for movie files, take screenshots of them and create thumbnail index pictures from them. It is possible to refine this process by selecting the location in which to search, while you can also run this operation on a schedule, choose the output directory, change the output file name, show or hide previews, enable log display and write logs to a document on the disk.

Preview results and configure many parameters

You can start the entire process with just a click of the button, and view a progress bar, run time on the current file and number of items processed. It is also possible to preview items in a dedicated pane, copy a specific item to the Clipboard or open it in your default picture viewer.
In addition to that, you can easily adjust many color and design settings. For example, you can change background and frame color, resize thumbnails, adjust padding, add info header and customize it, insert timestamps and adjust their appearance, as well as save items in a JPG or PNG file format.

Conclusion and performance

The computer’s performance is not going to be affected at all, the response time is good and there are sufficient options to keep you for quite a while. We did not come across any kind of issues (e.g. errors, hangs, freezes etc.) in our tests.
All in all, AMT - Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer is a handy piece of software which can be helpful to those interested in creating thumbnail index pictures. However, the interface could benefit from a little more work.