Author Topic: Screen Shot from Youtube video (Read 247 times)

cav58d · « **on:** December 01, 2007, 09:03:47 AM »

Is there anyway to capture a frame and copy or take a "screenshot" of a youtube video?

I think its Adobe flash?

Chairboy · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2007, 09:06:15 AM »

Sure. Pause the video, then hit Alt-Printscreen. Open Paint or your favorite graphics program, select Paste, then crop it down to the video player.

cav58d · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2007, 09:07:34 AM »

Alt + Printscreen? Not sure I follow....

Chairboy · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2007, 09:13:24 AM »

I made an assumption that you're on a Windows machine. If that's not correct, the answer will be different.

But yes, pressing Alt-Printscreen on your keyboard will take a snapshot of the current active window and 'copy' it into memory. Then you can 'paste' it into a program like pbrush.exe or photoshop (or Paint.net, corel, etc etc) and crop it to size.

cav58d · « **Reply #4 on:** December 01, 2007, 09:15:32 AM »

Okay, I understand now...I never even knew the "print screen" key existed lol...

and yes, I do have windows...

thanks chair!

Tigeress · « **Reply #5 on:** December 01, 2007, 09:42:48 AM »

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Originally posted by cav58d
Okay, I understand now...I never even knew the "print screen" key existed lol...

and yes, I do have windows...

thanks chair!

Goodness! Capturing an image of the active window or the full screen is very powerful.

To make a copy of the active window, press ALT PRINTSCREEN.

To copy the entire screen as it appears on your monitor, press CTRL PRINTSCREEN or SHIFT PRINTSCREEN.

You can paste the image to MS Paint and save it to a file.

To paste the image into a document, click the Edit menu in the document window, and then click Paste.

When saving it to a file, I recommend selecting the save file type as .jpg otherwise, the default is .bpm and the resulting file will be huge... typically several megabytes as opposed to hundreds of kilobytes for a .jpg.

If you take a snapshot make sure you don’t have info showing that might compromise your privacy. It happens all the time.

Just a word to the wise...

TIGERESS

Gunslinger · « **Reply #6 on:** December 01, 2007, 10:24:05 AM »

cav if you search for it you can actually download the video off of youtube in FLV format and then convert it to MPEG. I'd post a link but skuzzy doesn't like it.