Advanced Asset Thumbnails

Generate asset thumbnails for exotic file formats like videos, raw photos, audio files and documents.

How It Works

The addon generates control panel thumbnails for non-image files by integrating with a third-party file conversion service and caching the resulting image preview. Currently it supports the following service. Support for CloudConvert is planned.

• Transloadit: 9$/month, free tier available

Quick Start

1. Install using composer require daun/statamic-asset-thumbnails
2. Configure the driver and credentials in config/statamic/asset-thumbnails.php
3. Any supported files will automatically get a thumbnail in the control panel
4. Recommended: set up a custom cache disk for faster thumbnail loading (see below for details)

File Formats

The Transloadit driver supports the following file formats:

• Image: tiff, bmp
• Video: mp4, mov, avi, mkv, webm, wmv
• Audio: mp3, aac, aif, m4a, off, opus, flac, wav
• Raw Photo: raw, dng, heic, heif, nef, nrw, cr2, cr3, crw
• Document: pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, rtf, txt
• Adobe: psd, ai, eps

Commands

You can clear the thumbnail cache using the following command:

php please thumbnails:clear

Cache Disk

The default setup streams cached thumbnails from a custom controller. This simplifies initial setup, but comes with some overhead. To make thumbnails load faster, you can define a custom disk inside your app's public folder. Thumbnails can then be served directly from a public url, circumventing Laravel entirely.

First, define a new disk in config/filesystems.php.

'disks' => [
+  'thumbnails' => [
+    'driver' => 'local',
+    'root' => storage_path('app/public/thumbnails'),
+    'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage/thumbnails',
+    'visibility' => 'public',
+  ],
],

Then, update the cache disk in config/statamic/asset-thumbnails.php.

'cache' => [
-  'disk' => null,
+  'disk' => 'thumbnails',
],

License

This addon is paid software with an open-source codebase. To use it in production, you'll need to buy a license from the Statamic Marketplace.