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Videos may be displayed as thumbnails in Windows Explorer, but a single thumbnail may not be enough for making out the footage. If you need to catalog a large number of videos, without playing them one by one, you can use Video Thumbnails Maker to generate thumbnail sheets for all your videos, in a single run. The software allows you to make numerous output settings and it comes with its own special viewer for the generated thumbnail sheets.

Video Thumbnails Maker is available in free and paid versions. It can be used on all popular Windows platforms and it can be installed in a few moments. The program's hardware requirements are modest and it asks for .NET Framework 2.0, which comes preinstalled on all modern Windows versions. 

Creating a thumbnail sheet for videos can take less than a minute. You can just load your videos on the software's user interface, make a few output settings and click a button to start generating the thumbnail sheet. Additionally, you can make various configurations before your start the process. As previously mentioned, Video Thumbnails Maker comes with its own viewer and you can decide how the thumbnail should look and behave.

The software places two menus at your disposal, on the same interface. The Options menu allows you to make layout adjustments, resize thumbnails and change their colors and fonts and more. The Environment menu displays a series of options for changing the video rendering mode, applying effects, watermarks, times tamps and making other output settings. Besides selecting an output folder, you can also set the program to preserve the original folders structure, to save each captured frame as a separate file and to combine all files into one picture.

Creating a thumbnail sheet does not take long. The software will store the thumbnails and the sheet in JPG, PNG, BMP or TIFF format and it will also save them in its native format, for its own viewer. You can view all sheets, for all videos, on the same screen, and zoom in. Additionally, you can link them with videos and play them.