Announcement
Announcing OpusClip Thumbnail, the first AI thumbnail maker powered by OpenAI GPT-4o
May 7, 2025
Since launching OpusClip over 2 years ago, we have served millions of creators and businesses, helping them produce short videos faster and more efficiently. Throughout this journey, we've consistently heard about a common pain point from our community - video creators are not always graphic designers! Producing eye-catching thumbnails has always been a significant challenge that can bottleneck the content creation process.
Today, all of that changes.
Announcing OpusClip Thumbnail - Never produce a thumbnail by hand again
We're excited to announce that in partnership with OpenAI, we've built the first GPT-4o powered YouTube Thumbnail maker - allowing you to simply paste your video link (or upload the video file) and get a high-performing thumbnail back within minutes. No design skills needed.
Our thumbnail generator considers the genre of your video content and other contextual details, drawing from winning thumbnails created by the world's top video creators. We're leveraging GPT-4o for this tool because it provides a fast, scalable foundation to build upon without the need to train an image model from scratch. Its high prompt adherence, precise text rendering, and ability to integrate with other visual elements make single-shot thumbnail generation not just possible, but practical. GPT-4o also supports a wide range of visual styles, making it ideal for serving the diverse needs of today's creators.
With OpusClip Thumbnail, creators will be able to publish even faster, allowing them to get back to what they do best - making videos. This has always been our mission.
How it works: Video to polished thumbnail in 1 click
- Paste the link to your video, or upload the file into OpusClip Thumbnail
- Optional: You can also upload an image file of a specific face (like yours) or subject, to influence more stylistic control when it is generated as part of your thumbnail
- Our AI will start generating your thumbnail, factoring in the genre of your video and its contents, and drawing from the best examples of thumbnails from the world's top video creators
- Within minutes, your thumbnail is ready to export and publish!
Try it now, completely for free
We're offering OpusClip Thumbnail as part of our free tier so everyone can experience the power of AI-generated thumbnails. Current OpusClip users can access it immediately from their dashboard, while new users can sign up for a free account to try it out.
