# Animating with frozen time steps

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/animating-with-frozen-time-steps/17534
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** openfoam
**Created:** [April 25, 2026, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/animating-with-frozen-time-steps/17534 "2026-04-25T07:34:09Z")
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### Author: ![Eliah](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/bbce88/32.png) [@Eliah](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Eliah)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2026, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/animating-with-frozen-time-steps/17534/1 "2026-04-25T07:34:09Z")

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Hey all, I have ParaView 6.1.0-RC1, just wondering if someone can give some advice.  
I want to be able to freeze my timesteps at 0s to move the camera around to display my setup then lock the camera position and run through my timesteps. Can someone point me in the direction to something that might help.  
I know I could do 2 and splice them together but there has to be a better way

I’m new to ParaView so anything helps

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### Author: ![Francois\_Mazen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/francois_mazen/32/6483_2.png) [@Francois\_Mazen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Francois_Mazen)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2026, 6:20am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/animating-with-frozen-time-steps/17534/2 "2026-04-27T06:20:47Z")

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Hi @Eliah , welcome to the ParaView Discourse!

Have you watched this webinar about how to animate data with ParaView?

[![](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bb10a4d849147d2c656ca65ba33dcceaa9c32627.jpeg "Animate your scientific data analysis with ParaView") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6PTrFUFD00)

It may answer some of your questions.