Thumbnails

Thumbnails for videos.

Amazon Web ServicesMediaTranscodingVideo

Properties

Name Type Description
Format object
Interval object
Resolution object
AspectRatio object
MaxWidth object
MaxHeight object
SizingPolicy object
PaddingPolicy object
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JSON Schema

amazon-elastic-transcoder-thumbnails-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-elastic-transcoder/refs/heads/main/json-schema/amazon-elastic-transcoder-thumbnails-schema.json",
  "title": "Thumbnails",
  "description": "Thumbnails for videos.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "Format": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/JpgOrPng"
        },
        {
          "description": "<p>The format of thumbnails, if any. Valid values are <code>jpg</code> and <code>png</code>. </p> <p>You specify whether you want Elastic Transcoder to create thumbnails when you create a job.</p>"
        }
      ]
    },
    "Interval": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Digits"
        },
        {
          "description": "The approximate number of seconds between thumbnails. Specify an integer value."
        }
      ]
    },
    "Resolution": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ThumbnailResolution"
        },
        {
          "description": "<important> <p>To better control resolution and aspect ratio of thumbnails, we recommend that you use the values <code>MaxWidth</code>, <code>MaxHeight</code>, <code>SizingPolicy</code>, and <code>PaddingPolicy</code> instead of <code>Resolution</code> and <code>AspectRatio</code>. The two groups of settings are mutually exclusive. Do not use them together.</p> </important> <p>The width and height of thumbnail files in pixels. Specify a value in the format <code> <i>width</i> </code> x <code> <i>height</i> </code> where both values are even integers. The values cannot exceed the width and height that you specified in the <code>Video:Resolution</code> object.</p>"
        }
      ]
    },
    "AspectRatio": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/AspectRatio"
        },
        {
          "description": "<important> <p>To better control resolution and aspect ratio of thumbnails, we recommend that you use the values <code>MaxWidth</code>, <code>MaxHeight</code>, <code>SizingPolicy</code>, and <code>PaddingPolicy</code> instead of <code>Resolution</code> and <code>AspectRatio</code>. The two groups of settings are mutually exclusive. Do not use them together.</p> </important> <p>The aspect ratio of thumbnails. Valid values include:</p> <p> <code>auto</code>, <code>1:1</code>, <code>4:3</code>, <code>3:2</code>, <code>16:9</code> </p> <p>If you specify <code>auto</code>, Elastic Transcoder tries to preserve the aspect ratio of the video in the output file.</p>"
        }
      ]
    },
    "MaxWidth": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/DigitsOrAuto"
        },
        {
          "description": "The maximum width of thumbnails in pixels. If you specify auto, Elastic Transcoder uses 1920 (Full HD) as the default value. If you specify a numeric value, enter an even integer between 32 and 4096."
        }
      ]
    },
    "MaxHeight": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/DigitsOrAuto"
        },
        {
          "description": "The maximum height of thumbnails in pixels. If you specify auto, Elastic Transcoder uses 1080 (Full HD) as the default value. If you specify a numeric value, enter an even integer between 32 and 3072."
        }
      ]
    },
    "SizingPolicy": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/SizingPolicy"
        },
        {
          "description": "<p>Specify one of the following values to control scaling of thumbnails:</p> <ul> <li> <p> <code>Fit</code>: Elastic Transcoder scales thumbnails so they match the value that you specified in thumbnail MaxWidth or MaxHeight settings without exceeding the other value. </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>Fill</code>: Elastic Transcoder scales thumbnails so they match the value that you specified in thumbnail <code>MaxWidth</code> or <code>MaxHeight</code> settings and matches or exceeds the other value. Elastic Transcoder centers the image in thumbnails and then crops in the dimension (if any) that exceeds the maximum value.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>Stretch</code>: Elastic Transcoder stretches thumbnails to match the values that you specified for thumbnail <code>MaxWidth</code> and <code>MaxHeight</code> settings. If the relative proportions of the input video and thumbnails are different, the thumbnails will be distorted.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>Keep</code>: Elastic Transcoder does not scale thumbnails. If either dimension of the input video exceeds the values that you specified for thumbnail <code>MaxWidth</code> and <code>MaxHeight</code> settings, Elastic Transcoder crops the thumbnails.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>ShrinkToFit</code>: Elastic Transcoder scales thumbnails down so that their dimensions match the values that you specified for at least one of thumbnail <code>MaxWidth</code> and <code>MaxHeight</code> without exceeding either value. If you specify this option, Elastic Transcoder does not scale thumbnails up.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>ShrinkToFill</code>: Elastic Transcoder scales thumbnails down so that their dimensions match the values that you specified for at least one of <code>MaxWidth</code> and <code>MaxHeight</code> without dropping below either value. If you specify this option, Elastic Transcoder does not scale thumbnails up.</p> </li> </ul>"
        }
      ]
    },
    "PaddingPolicy": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/PaddingPolicy"
        },
        {
          "description": "When you set <code>PaddingPolicy</code> to <code>Pad</code>, Elastic Transcoder may add black bars to the top and bottom and/or left and right sides of thumbnails to make the total size of the thumbnails match the values that you specified for thumbnail <code>MaxWidth</code> and <code>MaxHeight</code> settings."
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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