Although YouTube’s main reason for existence is of course to offer a platform for viewing the videos published on itover time, it also became a live streaming service, added many social networking features, deployed YouTube Music as a music streaming service… in short, it has seen an interesting evolution in what it allows to do, how users use the service, points that do not always coincide.

An example that concerns us today is YouTube an exceptional resource to get the images we may need for a thousand and one uses. For example, you may remember that in early September we told you that Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron would premiere at the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals, followed by the release of the first international trailer. tapes. Well, the image that opened the said news was actually a screenshot of the said trailer.

The problem is that until now it has been necessary or use a scanning tool like the one built into Windows or install a browser extension which allows us to extract a specific image from the moment of click. The first solution is acceptable only if you operate this activity very casually, i.e. from Easter to bouquets. If, as many do, you need to extract images regularly, using an extension is more than recommended.

Four months ago Google added a “COPY video frame” option to the YouTube popup menu (the one that appears when you double-right click on a video), now Google has added an option to SAVE a video frame: https://t.co/iVJlZtbrn3
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However, it seems that this will soon no longer be necessary because, as we can read in MSPowerUser, YouTube lets you extract and save frames from videos from the context menu. As we can read, the service has already released this feature for some users who, when right-clicking on a video, found a new entry called “Save video frame as…” and of course it allows Take the currently displayed frame and save it as an image file to the computer.

At the moment, of course, there is no information either about the format of the obtained file, or whether the image resolution is the maximum video or the one with which it is being watched at that moment, and of course, nor about Google’s plans for their deploymenton. In addition, we will have to check whether it is available in all videos or, on the contrary, the accounts that publish them will have some control in this regard, for example the possibility of blocking the extraction of images, something that would not surprise me in copyrighted content.

So if you are one of those people who regularly need to extract stills from YouTube videos and therefore you are waiting for this feature to arrive because you plan to make good use of it, Before they arrive, I’ll tell you that I’m using Screenshot YouTube, and so far it’s been great for me. If you need it.