Here is an easy way to Download Youtube Storyboards , a Useful way to discover scenes

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Here is an easy way to Download Youtube Storyboards , a Useful way to discover scenes

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In a nice Coincidence , A Few days before @Freezefantasy post this wonderful youtube search method , I also discovered a very Useful youtube method to search for scenes

We all know Youtube Storyboards , Its the images of the video generated when you hover on the seekbar of the video , its great but it gets tiresome keeping hovering on the whole video scanning it for scenes , but with this following method , it isn't tiresome anymore

There is a way to easily download those Storyboards , and in a High quality , and view them in a single HTML file and all you have to do is to scroll down and happy hunting

The Method is to use a program called yt-dlp , You can download it from here , download it in an easy to access directory ( for example , downloading it in a folder called yt that its directory is C:\yt ) , then Run CMD , then inside CMD browse to the folder containing the yt-dlp.exe , in our example its C:\yt , after accessing the folder , Copy and paste the following command

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yt-dlp -f sb0
, then press on space and paste any youtube link ( Whether its a Video , Playlist , Whole Channel ) so the final command will look like this

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yt-dlp -f sb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR8E-VMKU0s
, and it will start downloading the storyboards of the Video/Whole Playlist/Whole Channel in the same folder , Use Microsoft Edge to open the mhtml folder for any Video and Voila , The Whole storyboard of the video is in front of your eyes

Keep in Mind , The Images displayed in the file is limited to how youtube generate those images in the seekbar , so in short videos the gap between a pic and the other could be one second , in long videos the gap could be up to 10 seconds , so there is a space for error the longer the video is , so for longer videos if there is no clear ASFR moment visible but there is signs for it so its worth checking the video itself

Example of a Short video ( Perfect for Commercials )

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yt-dlp -f sb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR8E-VMKU0s
The ASFR moment in the images generated from the video

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Example of a Long video

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yt-dlp -f sb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=XdXmfW8DNgM
The ASFR moment in the images generated from the video

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