What is Video Screenshot?
A normal screenshot catches the player's buttons, the captions bar, the progress bar and the rest of the page, at your screen's size. Video Screenshot saves only the video frame and draws it from the video itself, so the picture has the video's full resolution. It is made for the moments when you need one exact image from a video: a slide from a lecture, a chart from a webinar, a scene for a review, a still for a thumbnail.
How to take a screenshot of a video
There are four ways, so you can use the one that fits how you watch:
- Camera button in the YouTube player — next to Settings, on every YouTube video, Shorts and live streams. It can be turned off in the settings.
- Toolbar icon — opens Chrome's side panel with a big Capture frame button and the video of the current tab.
- Alt+Shift+S — on any tab with a video, also in fullscreen. You can change it in chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
- Right-click the video → Save this video frame as an image.
After a capture a small card appears in the corner of the page with Copy, Save and Open; it closes by itself.
Frame by frame to the exact moment
The side panel shows the video of the tab — its size, the current time and the title — with controls: 5 seconds back, one frame back, play/pause, one frame forward, 5 seconds forward. Pause close to the moment, step frame by frame until the picture is right, then capture. This is how you get a sharp frame without motion blur from a fast scene.
PNG, JPG or WebP, or the clipboard
- PNG keeps every pixel — best for text, code, slides and diagrams.
- JPG and WebP make smaller files; a quality slider sets the balance.
- Copy to the clipboard — paste the frame straight into a chat, an email, a document or an image editor.
- The file name is the video title plus the time of the frame, for example Lecture 5 12-34.png, so your pictures stay in order.
A gallery of your frames
Every frame you capture also appears in the side panel. Click one to open it, copy it, save it again or delete it; Save all (ZIP) downloads the whole set at once. The gallery keeps the last 100 frames on your computer and you can clear it any time.
YouTube and any other site
On YouTube the extension works right away. On other sites — course platforms, news sites, Vimeo, Twitch, social feeds, videos embedded in articles — it starts when you click the icon, press the shortcut or right-click the video, so it does not need access to every site you visit. If you want the side panel to see the video on every tab without a click, press Allow on all sites in the panel once.
When a site does not let the page read the video picture, the extension takes the frame from the screen, inside the borders of the video, and tells you the picture has screen resolution. Copy-protected streaming (Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, paid films) cannot be captured by any browser tool; the extension says so instead of saving a black image.
The interface in your language
The side panel, the preview card and the messages are translated into 52 languages. The globe button in the panel's header switches the language; by default it follows Chrome.
Privacy
Frames never leave your computer. There is no account, no server and no tracking in the extension: settings are kept in Chrome's storage and the gallery in the extension's own storage on this computer. Details are in the privacy policy.
Product facts
| Developer | Cresotech (PayForSay s. r. o., Slovakia) |
| Version | 2.0.3, updated 2026-11-13 |
| Works on | YouTube and any site with an HTML5 video |
| Formats | PNG, JPG, WebP, clipboard |
| Shortcut | Alt+Shift+S |
| Languages | 52 |
| Price | Free |