Generate cool image previews from your videos.

Users engage more with videos if previews look cool.
With Coconut, they look awesome.

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Generate static thumbnails.

3 ways to generate images from videos

By the number

Define a number of thumbnails. They will be all equally spaced.
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Offsets in second

Control exactly where you want the images to be extracted.
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Interval in second

Define an interval and you will get the images equally spaced for you.
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Enhance your video player for the best user experience.

Visual seek with tooltip thumbnails by generating sprite and VTT files

Video transcoding - thumbnails generation.

Sprite files are single images that include all the thumbnails of a video.
A single download to get them all. Fast and optimized.

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Edit your thumbnails.

Add blur effect, change aspect ratio to fit your needs

Video editing feature - blur effect, aspect ratio.

The simplest Video Transcoding API
to generate thumbnails.

Enjoy powerful libraries to harness cloud video encoding for your project

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// Our mission at Coconut is to make cloud video transcoding simple
const coconut = new Coconut.Client('api-key');

coconut.notification = {
  'url': 'https://app/api/coconut/webhook'
};

coconut.storage = { 
  'service': 's3',
  'bucket': 'mybucket',
  'region': 'us-east-1',
  'credentials': { 'access_key_id': 'xxx', 'secret_access_key': 'xxx' }
};

coconut.Job.create({
  'input': { 'url': 'https://cdn/path/file.mp4' },
  'outputs': {
    'jpg:140x': { 
      'path': '/tooltips/tooltip.jpg',
      'interval': 10,
      'sprite': true,
      'vtt': true
    },
    'jpg:400x': {
      'path': '/previews/thumb_%2.d.jpg',
      'number': 10
    },
    'png:800x': {
      'path': '/cover/cover.png'
    }
  }
}, function(job, err) {
...
});