A channel that ships weekly needs a thumbnail every week, and redoing the same layout by hand is the part that quietly slows a schedule down. This workflow makes the thumbnail from a spreadsheet row. List your videos in a Google Sheet, and Orshot renders an on-brand thumbnail for each new row and saves it to Google Drive, upload-ready.
Click a row to see the thumbnail it renders:
One row becomes one thumbnailClick a row
| ATitle | BGuest | CEpisode | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How we hit $1M ARR | Priya Sharma | 042 |
| 2 | The truth about cold outreach | Daniel Okoye | 043 |
| 3 | Design systems that scale | Mei Lin | 044 |
Orshot renders
Thumbnail
PNG
Rendered from row 1, one per row
What stays consistent
The template holds everything a viewer recognizes, so only the words change per video:
- The layout and safe zones, so the title never collides with the YouTube timestamp.
- Your fonts and color treatment, identical from episode to episode.
- The title, guest, and episode number, pulled from each row.
- The size, always 1280 x 720, so nothing gets cropped on upload.
Set it up once
- Connect the sheet where each row is one video, with columns for the title, guest, and episode.
- Map the title column to the template so each placeholder pulls from the right column.
- Choose where thumbnails save by pointing the destination at a Google Drive folder.
- Add rows and the thumbnail renders and files itself, so you grab it when you upload the video.
