# Warning while saving animation to png files
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/warning-while-saving-animation-to-png-files/1276
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/warning-while-saving-animation-to-png-files/1276 "2019-02-12T09:09:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jvoor](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jvoor)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/warning-while-saving-animation-to-png-files/1276/1 "2019-02-12T09:09:49Z")
In paraview V5.6.0 I get this warning while saving a series of png files:
Generic Warning: In C:\bbd\ecd3383f\build\superbuild\paraview\src\ParaViewCore\ClientServerCore\Rendering\vtkPVRenderView.cxx, line 1805
Missing VIEW().
Nothing is wrong with the output images. I just get this warning that I never used to.
My pipeline is a Transform (translation) -\> threshold (masking) -\> slice -\> glyph.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/warning-while-saving-animation-to-png-files/1276/2 "2019-02-12T18:38:13Z")
Jvoor,
I just tried to replicate this, and couldn’t. A few thoughts:
- Edit/ Reset to Default Settings. Save your old settings, if this fixes the issue, Kitware will want copies so they can figure out what is wrong.
- Please give details. What OS, what data set? Can you replicate it using Examples/ can.exo or disk\_out\_ref.exo? Please give every step - for instance, after glyph, how did you save screenshot? .png?
Alan
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### Author:  [@jvoor](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jvoor)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/warning-while-saving-animation-to-png-files/1276/3 "2019-02-13T11:22:12Z")
Hi Alan,
Resetting my settings did not fix the issue. I cannot reproduce the issue using the can.exo example so maybe it is linked to my data somehow. I am working with a structured (curvilinear) grids which I translate, threshold using a mask, slice down a plane and then display some glyphs based on 3D vector data. What is weird is it is only to do with this slice. When I slice in an orthogonal plane I do not get the same warning.
OS = Windows 10 64 bit. I save the screenshots using the ‘Save Animation’ tool as pngs.
Maybe this is too specific a problem. In the end the output is completely fine, but thought I would mention it in case it causes issues for someone else at a later stage.
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### Author:  [@wyan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wyan)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/warning-while-saving-animation-to-png-files/1276/4 "2019-06-18T19:57:56Z")
I have the same issue. When rendering the PNG files into a sequence I got a lot of warnings as the following, for every png file that is rendered:
> Blockquote
> Generic Warning: In /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release\_superbuild/build/superbuild/paraview/src/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Rendering/vtkPVRenderView.cxx, line 1820
> Missing VIEW().
> Generic Warning: In /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release\_superbuild/build/superbuild/paraview/src/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Rendering/vtkPVRenderView.cxx, line 1637
> Missing VIEW().
> Generic Warning: In /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release\_superbuild/build/superbuild/paraview/src/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Rendering/vtkPVRenderView.cxx, line 1693
> Missing VIEW().
> Generic Warning: In /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release\_superbuild/build/superbuild/paraview/src/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Rendering/vtkPVRenderView.cxx, line 1820
> Missing VIEW().
> Generic Warning: In /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release\_superbuild/build/superbuild/paraview/src/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Rendering/vtkPVRenderView.cxx, line 1637
> Missing VIEW().
> Generic Warning: In /home/buildslave/dashboards/buildbot/paraview-pvbinsdash-linux-shared-release\_superbuild/build/superbuild/paraview/src/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Rendering/vtkPVRenderView.cxx, line 1805
> Missing VIEW().
Then at some point Paraview crashes with ‘segmentation fault’. This error appears in 5.6.0. For 5.6.1, Paraview just crashes at the first frame of PNG rendered.