Chrome’s Copy Video Body characteristic makes it straightforward to seize full-resolution stills

Google simply made it simpler to seize high-quality nonetheless photos from movies — and it really works in a bunch of browsers. In a submit on Google’s Key phrase weblog geared toward college students, the corporate introduced a brand new characteristic constructed into Chrome that allows you to seize a high-quality, non-overlayed body from the supply video. Good-click on the video when paused and choose “Copy Video Body.” It won’t work on all movies — really, so far as I can inform, it largely simply works on YouTube — but it surely does work in a bunch of Chromium-based browsers, not simply Chrome.

Google’s pitching this as a device for college students to seize notes from lecture movies, which, positive! After messing round with the brand new characteristic for a couple of minutes, I can verify that it does provide a lot larger high quality screenshots than my two earlier methods: taking a display seize or the Enhancer for YouTube “screenshot” button.

Right here’s essentially the most attention-grabbing stuff I’ve discovered in regards to the new characteristic:

Truly, other than YouTube, I’m unsure the place else it does work. I haven’t examined each video participant on the internet, so in case you discover elsewhere it really works, please tell us within the feedback.