ThumbGenie 1.3.0 Update = Designerfied

There’s an updated version of ThumbGenie in the wild that sports a new skin designed by Nick Gorsline (aka Gorz). It was the first Flex component skin for Nick and first Illustrator-to-Flex workflow for moi. I think after after the experience we’re both looking forward to some Catalyst.

In addition to the new look, videos are now scaled in the preview window to match the output dimensions. This should make it easier to get a handle on what thumbnails of various sizes will actually look like.

ThumbGenie 1.2 Now Supports Bilinear Image Resampling (improved scaling in non-geek speak)

One of the things that’s sort of sucked about ThumbGenie has been the quality of scaled thumbnails. The 640×360 image below was generated from a 960×540 video frame. Notice the edge degradation (jaggies) and poorly rendered text that results from the nearest neighbor scaling. (more…)