# Saving animations takes too long
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/saving-animations-takes-too-long/8350
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 7, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/saving-animations-takes-too-long/8350 "2021-11-07T15:09:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Ali\_Sheikholeslam](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ali_Sheikholeslam)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/saving-animations-takes-too-long/8350/1 "2021-11-07T15:09:39Z")
It takes long time to save animations as _.ogv_, _.png_, and … . This issue gets worse when I add other data by importing as _.pvd_ formats and … ; It seems ParaView read them and extract them for each saving steps which result in a more time-consuming saving e.g. in one of my case with 10000 timesteps, which case folder have opened by _foam.foam_ file, without adding particles by _.pvd_ format files, animation will be saved in about 4 hours, relatively same as its solving execution time for the case. But with adding that particle files, it is going to take about 14 hours. I, mostly, save animations by using _.png_ formats and then attaching them to each other. Increasing fps number has not any satisfying effects in one of my tries by _.ogv_ format.
These long time savings do not seem logical, saving animations takes time more than solving duration 🤔 🙄
Is it needed to do specify any other additional setting to speed it up, which I missed?
Is there any other way to prepare and save animations more faster?
Which system components have direct effects on the speed?
I would be very grateful for any help and suggestion.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/saving-animations-takes-too-long/8350/2 "2021-11-08T08:34:58Z")
Which version of ParaView are you using ?
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### Author:  [@Ali\_Sheikholeslam](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ali_Sheikholeslam)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/saving-animations-takes-too-long/8350/3 "2021-11-08T10:02:42Z")
ParaView version 5.9.0. CPU is corei5 gen1, RAM 16g, Graphic GDDR5 256 bit 1g or 2g (weak comparing to other components). I have tried to make animation by laptop: ParaView version 5.10.1 on CPU corei7 gen8, RAM 8g, Graphic GDDR5 128bit 4g, it will takes about 4 hours (time was reduced to 1/3 comparing to that system).
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/saving-animations-takes-too-long/8350/4 "2021-11-08T10:03:44Z")
You may want to play around with the TemporalCache filter
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### Author:  [@Ali\_Sheikholeslam](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ali_Sheikholeslam)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/saving-animations-takes-too-long/8350/5 "2021-11-08T15:22:42Z")
Thanks, I will try it.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/saving-animations-takes-too-long/8350/6 "2021-11-09T02:10:20Z")
Another idea is to not output screenshots for 10,000 timesteps. Maybe only save every tenth timestep? This is done in the View/ Animation View. Change the Stride.