Advanced Asset Thumbnails - a Statamic Addon

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

Example asset thumbnails

[!NOTE] Requires Statamic 6, which is currently in alpha, so the implementation might change and things could break at any time. Please report any issues you encounter.

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

Install using composer require daun/statamic-asset-thumbnails
Configure the driver and credentials in config/statamic/asset-thumbnails.php
Any supported files will automatically get a thumbnail in the control panel

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

Thumbnails are cached in the storage folder and streamed from a controller to simplify setup. If you define a custom disk inside the public folder, thumbnails can be served much faster by redirecting to a public url instead.

Define a new disk in config/filesystems.php, then update the cache.disk option in the addon's config file.

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

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.