Comp viewer in UI

Question

Hi,Is there any way I could dynamically extract screenshots from the comp viewer to include in my UI ?Thanks

David Torno · Accepted Answer

I saw this command while looking for answers,but I i'm not sure this is a reliable function.Correct. It is an undocumented, therefore not supported feature by Adobe. This means that it could easily disappear from ExtendScript or change with any future update without warning. I use it a lot for my own non-public scripts and it works just fine as long as you are only dealing with 8 and 16 bit projects. 32 bit breaks the image appearance and is unusable. Dan is correct though that saving the image this way could be a backdoor to doing what you are wanting. You could also look into an command line screen cap option, but that would obviously include all of the UI and if the user had multiple monitors, multiple images to sort through, so probably not a good idea.

Dan Ebberts · Answer

I haven't tried it, but I would guess that if you can do it, the key would be to use the undocumented comp.saveFrameToPng(time,file) to generate the thumbnail, then bring that in as an image.Dan

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