# Save Multiple Animations at Once
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-multiple-animations-at-once/6491
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-multiple-animations-at-once/6491 "2021-02-17T21:37:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@woodscn](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/woodscn)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-multiple-animations-at-once/6491/1 "2021-02-17T21:37:09Z")
I’ve set up multiple, fairly complex, layouts composed of multiple data sets, and I want to animate them over time steps. Is there a way to save images for all of my layouts simultaneously so that I don’t have to load/unload the data multiple times? The only way I know of to do it is through the scripting interface, and I was looking for something easier.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-multiple-animations-at-once/6491/2 "2021-02-18T08:38:46Z")
File-\>SaveAnimation should do the trick
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### Author:  [@woodscn](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/woodscn)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-multiple-animations-at-once/6491/3 "2021-02-18T16:18:48Z")
The Save Animation dialog can save multiple views from the same layout, but not multiple layouts, as far as I can tell.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-multiple-animations-at-once/6491/4 "2021-02-18T16:24:53Z")
Right, I’m afraid this is not supported yet.
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### Author:  [@woodscn](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/woodscn)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-multiple-animations-at-once/6491/5 "2021-02-18T16:55:19Z")
Yeah, and I can understand why that would be. Choosing many different filenames, for instance, would be cumbersome.
Perhaps a checkbox to enable it, and then Paraview automatically creates subfolders using the names of the layouts, and uses the same filename in each?
Here’s what my setup looks like, for example.
@patchett2002