# Unable to save temporal file-series in any Image Format

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-save-temporal-file-series-in-any-image-format/1988
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 4, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-save-temporal-file-series-in-any-image-format/1988 "2019-06-04T21:07:57Z")
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### Author: ![leopessanha](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/leopessanha/32/289_2.png) [@leopessanha](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/leopessanha)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-save-temporal-file-series-in-any-image-format/1988/1 "2019-06-04T21:07:57Z")

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Hi!

I am trying to save a .vtk file-series with 10k timesteps in png, jpeg or tiff format, but when doing it only saves one step at a time.

These writers do not support writing timesteps as file-series?

If so, any tips on how can I achieve that?

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-save-temporal-file-series-in-any-image-format/1988/2 "2019-06-05T01:48:49Z")

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Indeed, that appears to be the case.

You can use Python scripting instead. Are you interested in trying that?

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### Author: ![leopessanha](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/leopessanha/32/289_2.png) [@leopessanha](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/leopessanha)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-save-temporal-file-series-in-any-image-format/1988/3 "2019-06-05T15:49:02Z")

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Thank you, Cory!

I’ll try that, afterwards maybe someone can optimize the code and I can post it on Tips & Tricks section.

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### Author: ![leopessanha](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/leopessanha/32/289_2.png) [@leopessanha](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/leopessanha)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/unable-to-save-temporal-file-series-in-any-image-format/1988/4 "2019-06-06T21:03:56Z")

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```
from paraview.simple import *

activeSource = GetActiveSource()
animationScene = GetAnimationScene()

for timestep in range(0, animationScene.Duration):
  SaveData('path/to/save' + str(timestep) +'.png', proxy=activeSource)
  animationScene.GoToNext()
```