Digital Inspiration Technology Blog: Watch any YouTube Video as a Series of Still Images

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Watch any YouTube Video as a Series of Still Images Aug 3rd 2012, 19:50 YouTube, earlier this year, added storyboards to their video player that give users a much a better idea of what’s inside any YouTube video. For instance, here’s the YouTube generated storyboard of  the popular Thriller album. → Internally, YouTube splits the video into multiple segments and each of these segments is represented with a single image frame. All these frames are then stitched together to form one big image that can help you visualize the entire video at a glance. Storyboard are now available for most YouTube videos including the longer ones like feature films. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6yfGGxXyHw See all the Storyboard of any YouTube video. When you watch a video on YouTube, your browser downloads the corresponding storyboard images  in the background but you never get to see them in raw form. You can either hunt for the downloaded images in the browser’s cache or if you want a more simple  solution, just add the following YouTube Frames bookmarklet to your browser. YouTube Frames Then open any video on the YouTube website (it won’t work for embedded videos), click the bookmarklet and it should display all the still image frames of that video on one page. The bookmarklet (source code) was tested in Chrome 21 and IE 10. This story, Watch any YouTube Video as a Series of Still Images, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 03/08/2012 under Bookmarklets, YouTube, Internet.

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