# Restarting Animations...
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/restarting-animations/4466
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/restarting-animations/4466 "2020-06-01T05:08:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@xxrich](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/xxrich)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/restarting-animations/4466/1 "2020-06-01T05:08:24Z")
Save my animations as png’s to enable restarts when all heck breaks loose. I have yet to figure though, how to get the png file numbering to continue with the same value as the steps count. I think what’s needed is a starting value for png outputs or an option to default to step count. Unless this exists already in some un-obviousness place:-)
-rich
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/restarting-animations/4466/2 "2020-06-01T08:17:01Z")
Not sure to follow here. Can you provide steps to reproduce your issue ?
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/restarting-animations/4466/3 "2020-06-01T23:11:00Z")
Hi Rich,
In ParaView 5.8, one of the options for exporting PNGs is at the bottom of the _Save Animation Options_ dialog after you choose the location where to save the images. It is an “Advanced” setting, so you have to click the gear icon at the top right of the dialog. The option name is **Frame Window** , and you can set it to the starting and ending frame of the animation.
