diff --git a/src/services/ffmpegService.ts b/src/services/ffmpegService.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..365867de6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/services/ffmpegService.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import { createFFmpeg, FFmpeg } from '@ffmpeg/ffmpeg';
+import { getUint8ArrayView } from './upload/readFileService';
+
+class FFmpegService {
+    private ffmpeg: FFmpeg = null;
+    async init() {
+        try {
+            this.ffmpeg = createFFmpeg({
+                log: true,
+                corePath: '/js/ffmpeg-core.js',
+            });
+            console.log('Loading ffmpeg-core.js');
+            await this.ffmpeg.load();
+        } catch (e) {
+            throw Error('ffmpeg load failed');
+        }
+    }
+
+    async generateThumbnail(file: File) {
+        if (!this.ffmpeg) {
+            await this.init();
+        }
+        this.ffmpeg.FS(
+            'writeFile',
+            file.name,
+            await getUint8ArrayView(new FileReader(), file)
+        );
+
+        await this.ffmpeg.run(
+            '-i',
+            file.name,
+            '-ss',
+            '00:00:01.000',
+            '-vframes',
+            '1',
+            'thumb.png'
+        );
+        console.log('Complete transcoding');
+        const thumb = this.ffmpeg.FS('readFile', 'thumb.png');
+        return thumb;
+    }
+}
+
+export default new FFmpegService();
diff --git a/src/services/upload/thumbnailService.ts b/src/services/upload/thumbnailService.ts
index dd0e25d58..c02d06704 100644
--- a/src/services/upload/thumbnailService.ts
+++ b/src/services/upload/thumbnailService.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { convertHEIC2JPEG } from 'utils/file';
 import { logError } from 'utils/sentry';
 import { BLACK_THUMBNAIL_BASE64 } from '../../../public/images/black-thumbnail-b64';
 import { getUint8ArrayView } from './readFileService';
-import { createFFmpeg, FFmpeg } from '@ffmpeg/ffmpeg';
+import FFmpegService from 'services/ffmpegService';
 
 const THUMBNAIL_HEIGHT = 720;
 const MAX_ATTEMPTS = 3;
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export async function generateThumbnail(
                 canvas = await generateImageThumbnail(file, isHEIC);
             } else {
                 try {
-                    const thumb = await ffmpegThumbnailGenerator(file);
+                    const thumb = await FFmpegService.generateThumbnail(file);
                     return { thumbnail: thumb, hasStaticThumbnail: false };
                 } catch (e) {
                     canvas = await generateVideoThumbnail(file);
@@ -189,36 +189,3 @@ async function thumbnailCanvasToBlob(canvas: HTMLCanvasElement) {
 
     return thumbnailBlob;
 }
-
-async function ffmpegThumbnailGenerator(file: File) {
-    let ffmpeg: FFmpeg = null;
-    try {
-        ffmpeg = createFFmpeg({
-            log: true,
-            corePath: '/js/ffmpeg-core.js',
-        });
-        console.log('Loading ffmpeg-core.js');
-        await ffmpeg.load();
-    } catch (e) {
-        throw Error('ffmpeg load failed');
-    }
-    console.log('Start transcoding');
-    ffmpeg.FS(
-        'writeFile',
-        file.name,
-        await getUint8ArrayView(new FileReader(), file)
-    );
-
-    await ffmpeg.run(
-        '-i',
-        file.name,
-        '-ss',
-        '00:00:01.000',
-        '-vframes',
-        '1',
-        'thumb.png'
-    );
-    console.log('Complete transcoding');
-    const thumb = ffmpeg.FS('readFile', 'thumb.png');
-    return thumb;
-}