Web capture

Show a website in your video without leaving Premiere

Web Capture launches headless Chrome, captures a screenshot or a scroll video of any URL, dismisses the cookies automatically, and imports the clip straight onto your timeline.

Works with Premiere Pro 2018+ · macOS & Windows · 14-day trial

Premiere Pro 2018+ macOS & Windows 14-day free trial Updates included
Web Capture: Black Hat Editor Tools
The Web Capture interface in Premiere Pro: URL field, screenshot and scroll video options
Why Web Capture

The web in your timeline

Three reasons editors capture with Web Capture.

📸

Screenshot or scroll video

A full-page screenshot in one click, or a scroll video that captures the site scrolling frame by frame as JPEG, then encodes to MP4 through ffmpeg.

🍪

Auto-dismiss cookies

70+ CSS selectors target the most common cookie banners and close them automatically before the capture. No popup in your clip.

🕵

Stealth anti-detection mode

Patches on the webdriver flag, plugins array, chrome object, permissions and WebGL. Sites cannot tell it is an automated browser.

70+
Cookie selectors
Frame-by-frame
Video capture
Headless
Automated Chrome
Stealth
Anti-detection
How it works

3 steps, a clip on your timeline

  1. 01

    Paste a URL

    Any public URL. The headless browser loads the page with the stealth patches on and dismisses the cookies automatically.

  2. 02

    Pick screenshot or scroll video

    Screenshot: an instant full-page capture. Scroll video: the plugin scrolls the page, captures each frame as JPEG, and encodes it all to MP4 through ffmpeg.

  3. 03

    The clip is imported onto your timeline

    The image or video is imported into your Premiere project and placed at the playhead. You carry on editing without having left the panel.

Under the hood

Stealth mode

Modern sites detect automated browsers through several signals: the navigator.webdriver flag, missing plugins, the missing chrome object, Notification permissions, and WebGL fingerprints. Web Capture patches each of these before the page loads so the site sees a standard Chrome.

The result: sites protected by Cloudflare, Akamai or DataDome show their content normally instead of a CAPTCHA challenge.

Web Capture, stealth mode
Web Capture with stealth patches active on a protected page
Video capture

Frame-by-frame scroll

In video mode, the plugin scrolls the page in steps, captures each position as a high-quality JPEG, then assembles all the frames into an MP4 through ffmpeg. The image preloader first scrolls the whole page to force lazy-loaded images to load before the final capture.

Lazy-load: images that only load on scroll are preloaded automatically. No blurry placeholder in your video.

Web Capture, scroll video
The Web Capture panel in scroll video mode with a preview of the captured frames

Frequently asked questions

? Does it work with any site?

Yes, any public URL you can open in a browser. The stealth patches capture most sites protected by Cloudflare or similar. Sites that require a login are not supported.

? Do I have to install Chrome separately?

The plugin uses puppeteer-core, which relies on your existing Chrome install. No extra browser to download.

? Does the cookie banner show up in the capture?

No. 70+ CSS selectors target the most common banners (OneTrust, CookieBot, Didomi, generic GDPR, and so on) and close them before the capture. If a rare banner slips through, you can add a custom selector.

? What quality for the scroll video?

Every frame is captured as a high-quality JPEG, then encoded to MP4 through ffmpeg. The resolution matches the configured viewport (1920x1080 by default).

? Are lazy-loaded images properly loaded?

Yes. Before the capture, a preloader scrolls the whole page to trigger every lazy-loaded image. No gray or blurry placeholder in the final result.

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