How to Save a Screenshot in After Effects
Get a step-by-step guide to saving a screenshot in After Effects.
Nobody says that After Effects is an easy software to learn, this is especially true when you’re ready to export your first screenshot. You’ve probably made the mistake of clicking the snapshot button (camera icon) only to find that your screenshot is nowhere to be found on your computer.
Once you have your specific frame selected go to Composition > Save Frame As…
From this menu, you will see two options: File and Photoshop Layers. Photoshop Layers will convert your composition into a Photoshop Document. This can be useful, but be mindful that this conversion isn’t always 100% perfect. You might need to edit the Photoshop Document before handing it off to someone else in the creative pipeline. Select ‘File. ‘ if you want to save your frame in a popular image format like JPG, PNG, TIFF, or Targa.
STEP 2: ADJUST SETTINGS
The image file will default to a PSD, but odds are you probably want it in a different format. To change the type of image that will be exported hit the blue text next to the ‘Output Module’. This will open up the Output Module where you can change your type of image to whatever you want under the ‘Format Menu’.
Once you’re done adjusting your settings hit ‘Ok’ and change the name of your image to whatever you want. If you want a full-res image leave the ‘Render Settings’ to the default setting.
STEP 3: RENDER
Simply hit that Render button. It shouldn’t take After Effects more than a couple of seconds to render out your frame.
Saving Image Presets
If you anticipate that you will be exporting a lot of single frames in the future I highly recommend creating render presets for various kinds of image formats. On my computer I have presets saved for JPEG, PNG, and PSDs. By saving these presets you can save yourself time when your export images in the future.
Saving a render preset is easy, simply adjust all of your render settings and hit ‘Make Template. ’ under the Output Module menu in the Render Queue. You can also save and share these render templates with anyone you like.
If you use the Creative Cloud (as you should) then you can actually sync these render settings to your account so that each time you login to After Effects your render settings will be synced on the new machine. To do this go to After Effects > Preferences > Sync Settings > Output Module Settings Templates.
Screenshots vs. Snapshots
You may have heard of a feature in After Effects called Snapshots. Snapshots are different than Screenshots. Snapshots are temporary image files stored in After Effects that allow you to recall a screenshot so you can compare two frames in the future. It’s like when you go to the eye doctor and they say 1 or 2… 1 or 2…
You Can’t Use the Camera Icon to save screenshots.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to save a snapshot file. You must use the screenshot step-by-step method listed above. I honestly don’t use snapshots that much in my day-to-day motion graphic work, but I’d be interested to hear about how some of you guys use it on your After Effects projects. Perhaps Adobe will create a screenshot button in the future?
THE PSD PROBLEM.
Remember when you’re saving to a format like PSD, your images might not be exactly similar when you open them up in Photoshop. This is simply because not all of the same effects or transfer modes can be found across both platforms. My best recommendation would be to plan out your projects so that you don’t run into any issues if you decide you want your layers to be editable in Photoshop.
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вопрос про after effects. подробнее.
я сделала снимок нажав на значок фотика, но найти его не могу. в какой папке хранятся снимки after effects?
Голосование за лучший ответ
А он и не сохранился в папку, он сохранился в буфер обмена. Чтобы снимок сохранился в папку, нужно нажать другую клавишу, смотрите здесь :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3Q0IdizAA
Чтобы правильно сохранить снимок в After Effects, посмотрите вот это небольшое видео :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7V_8Rs8vPw
Наташа АникинаГуру (3176) 4 года назад
в какие настройки заходить я что-то не нашла
Наташа Аникина Гуру (3176) ?
можно просто указать свой путь в настройках программы, например рабочий стол
Наташа АникинаГуру (3176) 4 года назад
в какие настройки заходить я не нашла?
Previewing
Though it is common to speak of rendering as if this term only applies to final output, the processes of creating previews for the Footage , Layer , and Composition panels are also kinds of rendering.
You can preview all or part of your composition as you work without rendering it to the final output. Many of the controls for previewing are in the Preview panel.
Use preview to play video and audio
After Effects allocates RAM to play video and audio in the Timeline , Layer , or Footage panel at real-time speed. The number of frames that can be stored for real-time playback depends on the amount of RAM available and the settings in the Preview panel.
The default preview behavior is configured to produce a preview that represents a real-time playback. When you press spacebar (the default keyboard shortcut), After Effects starts a preview with audio, and caches frames until the available RAM is filled.
To start a preview of video and audio, do any of the following:
- Press any preview keyboard shortcut Spacebar , Shift + spacebar , Numpad — 0 , Shift + Numpad-0 , or Option / Alt + Numpad — 0 . Each keyboard shortcut results in a different preview behavior based on the Preview settings assigned to each of the keys. You can configure the preview behavior for each keyboard shortcut by modifying the settings in the Preview panel. For more information, see Configure Preview Behaviors.
- Select the (Play) button in the Preview panel. When you select the Play button, settings assigned for the shortcut currently displayed in the Preview panel are used.
- Select Composition >Preview >Play . When you select the Play option, settings assigned for the shortcut currently displayed in the Preview panel are used.
Configure Preview behaviors
You can configure the Preview options to suit your working style. Controls in the Preview panel allow you to configure preview behaviors for each keyboard shortcut ( Spacebar , Shift + Spacebar , Numpad — 0 , Shift + Numpad — 0, Numpad -, or Option / Alt + Numpad -) audio, looping, caching, range, and layer controls.
To configure settings for Preview :
The Preview panel is open by default in most workspaces within After Effects. However, if the Preview panel is closed, select Window > Preview to open it.
In the Preview panel, you can modify the following settings to configure Preview behavior:
Choose a keyboard shortcut to Play/Stop a preview: Spacebar , Shift + Spacebar , Numpad — 0 , Shift + Numpad — 0 , or Option/Alt + Numpad-0. The preview behavior depends on the settings specified for the currently selected keyboard shortcut.
Restore default preview settings for all Shortcut keys.
To restore preview settings for all keyboard shortcuts to closely match their behaviors in previous versions (After Effects CC 2014 and earlier), hold the Option (macOS) or Alt (Windows) key, and select the Reset button.
Mute Audio
Mute audio during a preview.
Include Video
When enabled, the preview plays video.
Include Audio
When enabled, the preview plays audio.
Include Overlays and Layer Controls
When enabled, the preview shows overlays (for example, grids and guides) and layer controls for selected layers as defined in the View > View Options dialog box. This can be enabled regardless of whether Include Video is enabled. Viewer panel overlays include guidelines, safe margins, grids, and 3D reference axes. To choose which overlays to show for the current viewer, open the Choose Grid and Guide options menu at the bottom of the Viewer panel. While a preview is playing back, you can dynamically show or hide layer controls using: Cmd + Shift + H (macOS) or Control + Shift + H (Windows) .
Specify if you want the preview to play in a loop.
Showing or hiding layer controls during a preview does not affect the state of the Layer controls option in the Preview panel. You cannot simultaneously disable all three Include buttons. At least one button must remain enabled. When you disable the third button, one of the other buttons is enabled.
Cache Before Playback: When you enable this option, After Effects caches frames before starting playback. This option is not enabled by default for any of the preview shortcuts. If you Option- (macOS) or Alt- (Windows) select the Reset button in the Preview panel, Cache Before Playback is enabled for Numpad-0 .
- Work Area: Only the frames within the work area.
- Work Area — Extended by Current Time: Work area is dynamically extended with reference to the position of the current-time indicator (CTI).
- If the CTI is placed before the work area, the length of the range is from the current time to the work area endpoint.
- If the CTI is placed after the work area, the length of the range is from the start point to the current time. If From Current Time is enabled, the length of the range is from the start point to the last frame of the composition, layer, or footage.
- If the CTI is placed inside the work area, the range is the work area with no extension.
- Select Range > Play Around Current Time .
- In the Play Around Current Time settings dialog box, set your desired preroll and postroll values in seconds.
- Select OK .
Specify a Frame Rate for the preview. Select Auto if you want the preview and composition frame rates to be equal.
Select the number of frames you want to skip while previewing to improve playback performance.
Specify preview resolution. Value specified in the Resolution drop-down overrides the resolution setting of the composition.
Choose one or more of the following behaviors to occur when you stop a preview with the current shortcut or the Play button:
- If caching, play cached frames: When this option is enabled and you use this shortcut to stop a preview before caching has completed, only caching is stopped. Playback of cached frames restarts from the beginning of the range. When this option is disabled, stopping a preview with this shortcut stops both caching and playback.
- Move time to preview time: When this option is enabled and you use this shortcut to stop a preview, the Current Time moves to the position of the Preview Time .
Stop a Preview
You can stop a preview using any of the following:
- Press any of the preview keyboard shortcuts: Spacebar , Shift + spacebar , Numpad — 0 , Shift + Numpad — 0 , or Option / Alt + Numpad — 0 .
- Select the Play/Stop button in the Preview panel.
- Choose Composition >Preview >Play Current Preview .
- Press the Esc key.
The following actions also cause After Effects to stop a preview:
- Select the previewing viewer panel. Selecting the tab of the viewer panel will not stop the preview.
- Adjust a property of time, such as the Work Area bar or Time Navigator bar.
- Drag the current-time indicator (CTI) or select the time ruler without the Option (macOS) or Alt (Windows) key held down. This action also changes the current time.
- Change the composition settings of a previewing composition.
- Hide the previewing viewer panel behind another panel in the workspace. For example, select a different panel in the same group or open a new viewer panel in the same group.
- Start the render queue.
The Play / Stop button in the Preview panel and Composition > Preview > Play Current Preview is linked to the shortcut currently displayed in the Preview panel. Using these actions to stop a preview has the same result as pressing the currently displayed keyboard shortcut.
Default preview settings
The following are the default preview settings for each of the preview keyboard shortcuts:
Shift + Spacebar
- Play video in preview: On
- Play audio in preview: On
- Show overlays and layer controls: Off
- Cache before playback: Off
- Range: Work area extended by current time
- Play From: Current Time
- Frame Rate: Auto.
- Skip: 0
- Resolution: Auto
- Full Screen: Disabled
When the Spacebar is used to stop a preview:
- If caching, play cached frames: Enabled
- Move time to preview time: Enabled
- Play video in preview: On
- Play audio in preview: On
- Show overlays and layer controls: Off
- Cache before playback: Off
- Range: Work Area extended by current time
- Play From: Current Time
- Frame Rate: Auto
- Skip: 0
- Resolution: Auto
- Full Screen: Disabled
When the Shift + Spacebar is used to stop a preview:
- If caching, play cached frames: Enabled
- Move time to preview time: Disabled
When the Numpad-0 is used to stop a preview:
- If caching, play cached frames: Enabled
- Move time to preview time: Disabled
Shift + Numpad — 0
Alt + Numpad — 0
- Play video in preview: On
- Play audio in preview: On
- Show overlays and layer controls: Off
- Cache before playback: Off
- Range: Work Area extended by current time
- Play From: Start of Range
- Frame Rate: Auto
- Skip: 1
- Resolution: Auto
- Full Screen: Disabled
When the Shift+Numpad-0 is used to stop a preview:
- If caching, play cached frames: Enabled
- Move time to preview time: Disabled
- Play video in preview: Off
- Play audio in preview: On
- Show overlays and layer controls: Off
- Cache before playback: Off
- Range: Work Area Extended by Current Time
- Play From: Current Time
- Frame Rate: Auto
- Skip: 0
- Resolution: Auto
- Full Screen: Disabled
When the Numpad+0 is used to stop a preview:
- If caching, play cached frames: Enabled
- Move time to preview time: Disabled
When the Alt+Numpad-0 is used to stop a preview:
- If caching, play cached frames: Enabled
- Move time to preview time: Disabled
Preview only audio
When you preview only audio, it plays immediately at real-time speed, unless you’ve applied audio effects other than Stereo Mixer , in which case you may have to wait for audio to render before it plays.
Set the sample rate for audio for the entire project in the Project Settings dialog box ( File > Project Settings ).
The Audio Hardware and Audio Output Mapping preferences determine the behavior of audio previews. The output module settings determine the quality of audio in the final output. In the Audio Hardware pane of the Preferences dialog box ( Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware ), you can select the device class, map the default output, change the settings, and set the latency.
Manually preview (scrub) video and audio
- To manually preview (scrub) the video in the Timeline panel or go to a specific frame, drag the current-time indicator.
- To scrub audio in the Timeline panel, Ctrl + Alt -drag (Windows) or Command + Option -drag (macOS) the current-time indicator (CTI).
- To scrub audio and video in the Timeline panel, Ctrl -drag (Windows) or Command -drag (macOS) the current-time indicator (CTI).
If you stop moving the current-time indicator (CTI) with the mouse button depressed while scrubbing with audio, a short section of audio loops.
To manually preview (scrub) only the frames that are already rendered and cached into the RAM cache, press Caps Lock before dragging the current-time indicator (CTI). This prevents After Effects from trying to render other frames when you drag over or past them. This technique is useful when you want to manually preview some frames you rendered using preview settings that use an option to skip every other frame.
Audio panel options
During previews, the Audio panel volume unit (VU) meter actively displays audio volume levels. At the top of the VU meter, signals indicate when the audio is clipping—a distortion that occurs when the audio signal exceeds the maximum level that the audio device allows.
To view the VU meter and levels controls in more detail, increase the height of the Audio panel.
Choose Options in the Audio panel menu to specify the following options:
Choose whether to display audio levels in decibels or in percentages. 100% equals 0 decibels (0 dB).
The minimum audio level to display in the Audio panel.
Additional tips and options for previewing
- With all previewing methods—as with rendering to final output—a layer is visible in rendered previews only if its Video layer switch is selected.
- The following are some of the factors that influence the speed with which previews are rendered:
- Layer switches
- Fast Previews settings
- Preference settings
- Composition settings
Use the Resolution/Down Sample Factor settings menu which is one of the simplest and most influential of the preview settings controls. Choose a value other than Full from this menu to see all previews at a lower resolution.
To turn pixel-aspect ratio correction on or off for previews, select the Toggle Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction button at the bottom of the panel. The quality of the pixel aspect ratio correction is determined by the Zoom Quality preference. (See Viewer Quality preferences.)
- When possible, preview on the same kind of device that your audience use to view your final output. For example, you can preview on an external video monitor.
- If color management is enabled, you can preview a composition, layer, or footage item as it appears in the output color space. (See Simulate how colors will appear on a different output device.)
Select Show Rendering Progress In Info Panel And Flowchart ( Edit > Preferences > Display (Windows) or After Effects > Preferences > Display (macOS)) to see additional information in the Info panel or the project Flowchart panel during rendering, either for previews or for final output.
Move the current-time indicator (CTI)
The most basic way of previewing frames is manually previewing by moving or dragging the current-time indicator (CTI).
The time ruler visually represents the time dimension of a composition, a layer, or a footage item. In a Layer or Footage panel, the time ruler appears near the bottom of the panel. For a Composition panel, the time ruler appears in the corresponding Timeline panel. The time rulers in different panels represent different durations. The time ruler in a Layer or Footage panel represents the duration of the contents of that panel; the time ruler in the Timeline panel represents the duration of the entire composition.
On a time ruler, the current-time indicator indicates the frame you are viewing or modifying.
- To go forward or backward one frame, select the Next Frame
or Previous Frame 
button in the Preview panel or press Page Down or Page Up . - To go forward or backward ten frames, Shift -click the Next Frame or Previous Frame button or press Shift + Page Down or Shift + Page Up .
- To go forward a specific period of time or number of frames, select the current-time display and then enter the plus sign (+) followed by the timecode or number of frames to advance. For example, enter +20 to go forward 20 frames or 1:00 to go forward one second. Precede the value by the minus sign (-) to go backward. For example, enter +-20 to go backward 20 frames or +-1:00 to go backward one second.
- To go to the first or last frame, select the First Frame
or Last Frame 
button in the Preview panel or press Home or End . - To go to the first or last frame of the work area, press Shift + Home or Shift + End .
- To go to a specific frame, select the time ruler; select the current-time display in the Footage , Layer , Composition , or Timeline panel; or press Alt + Shift + J (Windows) or Option + Shift + J (macOS). You can also drag the current-time display in the Timeline panel to modify the value.
- Shift -drag the current-time indicator to snap to keyframes, markers, In and Out points, the beginning or end of the composition, or the beginning or end of the work area.
- Add Shift to the J and K hotkeys to quickly jump between keyframes and markers of selected layers and properties.
If you scrub the CTI while a preview is playing, preview stops. To scrub the CTI without stopping a preview, hold Option / Alt while scrubbing.
Zoom in or out in time for a composition
- In the Timeline panel, select the Zoom In button
or the Zoom Out button 
, or drag the zoom slider between the buttons. - On the main keyboard, press the = (equal sign) key to zoom in or press the – (hyphen) key to zoom out in time.
- Drag the Time Navigator Start or Time Navigator End brackets to zoom in or out on a section of the composition time ruler.
When you click the Time Navigator in the Timeline panel, the Info panel shows the times of the beginning and end of the Time Navigator duration.
- To zoom out to show the entire composition duration, press Shift + ; (semicolon) with the Composition panel or Timeline panel active. Press Shift + ; again to zoom back into the duration specified by the Time Navigator .
- To zoom out to show the entire composition duration, Shift -double-click the Time Navigator. Shift -double-click it again to zoom back into the duration specified by the Time Navigator .
- To zoom in to show individual frames in the time ruler, double-click the Time Navigator . Double-click the Time Navigator again to zoom out to show the entire composition duration.
- To zoom in the Composition , Layer , Footage , and Timeline panels using multi-touch gestures using two fingers, pinch your fingers closer together to zoom out, or move your fingers farther apart to zoom in.
For additional ways to zoom and scroll in time using the mouse scroll wheel, see Scroll or zoom with the mouse wheel.
When zoomed in time, press D to center the time graph on the current time.
Choose a viewer to always preview
Designating a viewer as the default panel to preview is especially useful when you have a Composition viewer that represents your final output and you always want to preview that viewer, even when you’re changing settings in other panels.
The panel that’s set to always preview appears frontmost for the duration of the preview.
- Select the Always Preview This View button in the lower-left corner of the panel.
OR
- Select the Primary Viewer button in the lower-left corner of the panel.
Primary Viewer Button
The Primary Viewer button is next to the Always Preview This View button in the lower left of the Composition , Layer , and Footage viewer panels.
Primary Viewer functions similarly to Always Preview This View , except that Primary Viewer only defines which viewer or view is used for audio and external video preview.
- Only one view can be set as P rimary Viewer ; enabling it for a viewer or view disables it in any other viewer or view where it had previously been enabled.
- When Primary Viewer is disabled, the most recently active viewer or view is used for audio and external video preview.
- When you switch to a different viewer or view, that viewer or view takes control of audio and external video preview.
When multiple views are open, previews use the frontmost composition view for 2D compositions and the Active Camera view for 3D compositions. To turn off the Active Camera , deselect Previews Favor Active Camera in the Preview panel menu.
Preview modes and Viewer Quality preferences
After Effects provides several options for previewing that make various tradeoffs between speed and fidelity.
Preview modes and Fast Previews preferences
Each preview mode provides a different balance between quality and speed for playback and for updating of images during interactions, such as when you drag a layer in the Composition panel or modify a property value in the Timeline panel.
Draft 3D and Live Update modes apply to all views of a composition.
Disables lights, shadows, and depth-of-field blur for cameras. To turn Draft 3D mode on or off, select the Draft 3D button at the top of the Timeline panel.
Updates images in the Composition or Layer panel during interactions. When Live Update is deselected, After Effects displays wireframe representations during interactions.
- To temporarily toggle Live Update mode, hold Alt (Windows) or Option (macOS) while dragging to move a layer, modify a property value, or move the current-time indicator (CTI).
- To prevent After Effects from updating images in the Footage , Layer , and Composition panels, press Caps Lock . When you make a change that would otherwise appear in a panel, After Effects adds a red bar at the bottom with a text reminder that image refresh is disabled. After Effects continues to update panel controls such as motion paths, anchor points, and mask outlines as you move them. To resume panel updates and display all changes, press Caps Lock again. Pressing Caps Lock is a good way to prevent views from being refreshed for each frame during rendering for the final output.
- When you are using OpenGL to render previews and are previewing on a video monitor, the preview shown on the video monitor doesn’t update as you interact with elements of your composition until you have released the mouse at the end of an interaction. (See Preview on an external video monitor.)
Fast Previews
The Fast Previews options range from higher quality but slower performance (Off) to lower quality but higher performance (Wireframe).
Off (Final Quality)
Fast Previews is off. Use this mode when previewing the final quality of your composition.
Attempts to downsample footage while dragging a layer or scrubbing a property value. For the ray-traced 3D compositions, Adaptive Resolution reduces the ray-tracing quality based on the current adaptive resolution:
- At 1/2, the ray-tracing quality value is cut in half.
- At 1/4, it is reduced to at most 4.
- At 1/8 or 1/16, it is reduced to at most 2.
You can change the adaptive resolution limit in Edit > Preferences > Previews (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Preferences > Previews (macOS).
Available in ray-traced 3D compositions only. This option reduces the ray-tracing quality (number of rays fired by the ray tracer) to 1.
When laying out a complex scene, or if you are working in a ray-traced 3D composition, you can use Fast Draft mode for previewing. In ray-traced 3D compositions, the Fast Draft mode renders beveled, extruded, and curved 3D layers. When previewing, the scene is downsampled to speed up the loading of textures to the GPU. In Fast Draft mode, each frame of video is still read into the renderer as needed. The downsample factor is set at 1/4 resolution, and effects and track mattes are on.
Useful for setting up and previewing complex compositions.
- In the Draft , Fast Draft , and Wireframe modes, the Current Renderer menu button’s lightning bolt appears orange. In Adaptive Resolution , it appears orange when the composition is downsampled. In these modes, the name of the mode appears in the upper-right corner of the Composition view.
- If adjusting a property or scrubbing through the Timeline takes a long time in Final Quality mode, Adaptive Resolution , or Draft modes, the scene temporarily switches to show wireframes. The frame finishes rendering when you stop moving the mouse.
- If you are in a ray-traced 3D composition in Draft mode and switch it to a Classic 3D composition, the fast preview mode automatically switches to Adaptive Resolution .
- If you want to update more than one active view when scrubbing while holding down the Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) key, enable the Share View Options option in the Select View Layout pop-up menu.
- Select the Current Renderer menu button in the upper-right corner of the Composition panel to quickly open the current renderer settings in the Composition Settings dialog box. This method applies to 3D layer, camera, or light in the composition.
Changing the Fast Previews mode to match your workflow is important, especially when working with ray-traced 3D compositions.
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I know this is an easy question but I am stuck.
I just did a snapshot & it has a camera click like sound. (I click on the small icon below the window).
Question is, how do I locate the file ?
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Todd_Kopriva • , Apr 16, 2011 Apr 16, 2011Are you talking about the Export Frame button in the Program Monitor panel in Premiere Pro?
I suspect that you’re not—that you’re actually talking about the Take Snapshot button at the bottom of the Composition panel in After Effects.
The reason that I’m confused is that you’re asking in the Premiere Pro forum, but you mentioned the button making a sound, which happens in After Effects.
Anyway, if you’re talking about After Effects, the snapshots aren’t written to disk; that’s not what they’re fo
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Are you talking about the Export Frame button in the Program Monitor panel in Premiere Pro?
I suspect that you’re not—that you’re actually talking about the Take Snapshot button at the bottom of the Composition panel in After Effects.
The reason that I’m confused is that you’re asking in the Premiere Pro forum, but you mentioned the button making a sound, which happens in After Effects.
Anyway, if you’re talking about After Effects, the snapshots aren’t written to disk; that’s not what they’re for. See this page .
If you’re talking about Premiere Pro, just click the button again, and you’ll see the path to where the exported frames are written.
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Todd_Kopriva wrote:
Are you talking about the Export Frame button in the Program Monitor panel in Premiere Pro?
I suspect that you’re not—that you’re actually talking about the Take Snapshot button at the bottom of the Composition panel in After Effects.
The reason that I’m confused is that you’re asking in the Premiere Pro forum, but you mentioned the button making a sound, which happens in After Effects.
Anyway, if you’re talking about After Effects, the snapshots aren’t written to disk; that’s not what they’re for. See this page .
If you’re talking about Premiere Pro, just click the button again, and you’ll see the path to where the exported frames are written.
Sorry Todd for the confusion.
I am actually talking about AE & I posted on the wrong section.
And thanks the answer is Compostion > Save Frame As
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Hey, I just learned something from your post — did not know that the Export Frame/Snapshot button in AE made a sound. Now I know, so all is not lost.
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the_wine_snob wrote:
Ryan,
Hey, I just learned something from your post — did not know that the Export Frame/Snapshot button in AE made a sound. Now I know, so all is not lost.
Good luck,
Hunt
Haha Bill, really glad you can learn something bcos I am always the one asking you questions. Hahhaa
You are the same Bill from muvipix, rite ?
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/t5/after-effects-discussions/how-to-locate-my-snapshot-file/m-p/3384268#M237544 Apr 17, 2011 Apr 17, 2011
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You are the same Bill from muvipix, rite ? That is correct. However, I have not spent as much time there, as I used to. Just been too busy to be on that many fourms. Heck, I am even seldom posting to my favorite wine and food forum nowadays.
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