Chrome now permits you to copy frames from movies for simple sharing

Google has simply made it simpler than ever to seize video stills whereas utilizing its Chrome net browser. The corporate highlighted the battle confronted by customers when making an attempt to seize video frames — noting that screenshots typically produced lower-quality photos with the video’s progress bar proven throughout it. If you happen to’re utilizing Chrome (or one other Chromium-based browser, like Microsoft’s personal Edge), that’s now a factor of the previous. Beginning in the present day, customers can hit pause at any time throughout a video, right-click, and choose the brand new “Copy Video Body” possibility from the pop-up menu.

We went forward and tried the function however seen it did not work as supposed. On YouTube, evoking the brand new possibility required two proper clicks as a substitute of 1. The primary right-click introduced up the native YouTube menu however after a second attempt, the menu with the brand new function was accessible. If you click on the “Copy Video Body,” Chrome will seize what’s at present being proven and you will have the choice to stick your picture in supported textual content fields throughout the browser, like Google Docs. We have been additionally in a position to paste the picture into the Apple Notes app; from there, it can save you the precise file.

As of proper now, there is no such thing as a possibility to save lots of the copied video picture on to your desktop as a file. The function can be restricted relating to streaming providers, with a lot of them proscribing the power to seize content material. The truth is, to date we have solely gotten it to work on YouTube. So, whereas this function might technically be useful in a pinch, it could want some fine-tuning to be extra helpful. Chrome’s new “Copy Video Body” is being rolled out in the present day for Home windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS.