After Effects 18.2 (0-00-00-00) in name when Save Frame As

I use a Mac Utility called A Better Finder Rename. I created a "Droplet" app to delete the appropriate amount of characters at the end of the file name. It can do it to any amount of files very quickly. I belive they have a ersion for the PC as well. 

If this is about being able to export frames really quickly, then you might also want to check out Video Copilot's FX Console: https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2018/05/fx-console-updated-to-v1-0-3/

This lets you click a button to take a screengrab which you can copy directly to your clipboard.  I use it all the times for making thumbnails for my tutorials.  Way quicker than rendering.

Hi

after adding to render queue change the settings in " Output to".

Click on the arrow button you can see some options.

Hope this will work for you.

All the best

-Bala

Agree with Mylenium.  You could commission someone who knows scripting (or learn it yourself) to write a script that mimics the behaviour of the "Save to still" function, but eliminates the timecode reference in the file name.  You could even add a button to apply it.  This is quite straightforward stuff for someone who knows what they're doing.

But the built-in functionality is what it is.

It works as it always has. Unless you create your own script that mimics the functionality there is no way to change that.

Mylenium