Generate a YouTube thumbnail in PandaStudio
PandaStudio generates a YouTube thumbnail from a reaction, a subject image, and overlay text, or suggests one straight from the transcript, using your own AI account.
Describe the thumbnail (an excited reaction, the topic, a few words of overlay) and PandaStudio generates it, or let it read the transcript and propose one. It lives on the export page next to the title and description so you finish everything in one place.
In the app
- 1Open a finished export's detail page.
- 2In the Thumbnail section, pick a reaction and layout, describe the subject, and add overlay text.
- 3Generate, or click Suggest from transcript to have it propose one.
- 4Set it as the thumbnail before publishing to YouTube.
Ask the AI
Open the AI chat in the editor and say any of these. The agent does the edits for you.
“Make a thumbnail with an excited reaction and the words FIRST SALE.”
“Suggest a thumbnail from the transcript.”
CLI & MCP
Every capability is a verb, reachable from the terminal or from an MCP agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Claude Desktop).
export.generate-thumbnail
pandastudio export.generate-thumbnail --entryId=$ENTRY --reaction=excited --overlayText='FIRST SALE'
export.set-thumbnail
pandastudio export.set-thumbnail --entryId=$ENTRY --path=<image>