New export panel - can't export current frame easily

[morphinapg]

I know there's a quick shortcut for exporting the current frame, but that option does not let you choose, for example, a 16bit TIFF file. I often exported screenshots of the scenes I was working with in high bit depth TIFF files to preserve the quality of the source I'm working with in an image, and now the new export panel no longer defaults to exporting the current frame when you are not exporting as sequence. Instead, it chooses the first frame in the sequence, which is completely useless to me.

Sure, I could set an in point every single time I did this, but I sometimes export thousands of screencaps from each project I do, and this new workflow just made that process far harder. If the image preset I'm using does not have "export as sequence" selected, it should by default export the current frame the playhead on the timeline is at, not the first frame in the sequence/selection.

[morphinapg]

In fact, I just realized that it's not exporting the first frame of the file. It exports what's displayed in the preview window of the new export panel, which could be any frame and is completely independent of the preview when editing the sequence. This is not good at all for anybody who wants to export single frames in custom formats.

[morphinapg]

Another issue I just found: Because they don't give you a dialog box for choosing file name, you can't see what your other files are named in that same folder. You will have no way of knowing if you chose a name that's already taken until you press export, and if you're exporting several things in a row like me, you may want to number them. The new panel makes it impossible to see what the previous number you used when you last exported was, so you have to keep switching withdows to the folder. This is really going to make simple things so much more complicated. 

[Graeme Bull]

Hitting the little camera icon in the window or "ctrl-shift-e" doesn't give you the option for a tiff? It does for me. Or is it not 16bit?

[Ann Bens]

Looks like the camera icon gives 8 bit.

If you want a single frame in 16 bit you will have to set an in and outpoint around one frame in the export.

Dont know of any other way.

[Graeme Bull]

There's no way to set it to be 16 bit? There must be some pref file somewhere that has that...

[morphinapg]

If there is any hidden file that has the ability to change that, I am unaware of it. Would be nice if somebody could find such a thing.

I have been told that the DPX option is 16bit though, so that may be a workaround. I could export my shots to DPX, and then convert them to TIFF afterwards. I believe EXR also does 16bit, but it doesn't preserve identical RGB levels like TIFF does, but rather applies a gamma/eotf correction and encodes it as linear color. Unfortunately, for the purposes I will be using them, that doesn't work for me. 

This script can also help if you're like me and wish to export many screencaps from your project:

https://aescripts.com/still-exporter/

[morphinapg]

Yeah this seems to be the only way to do it right now. Unfortunately, doing this thousands of times for all the screencaps I make would be extremely frustrating. Plus, as I mentioned above, the lack of a dialog box for naming the file means I have to open the folder in windows and keep going back to reference which # file I'm on, which makes the process even more frustrating.

As I mentioned in another comment below, I was made aware of a batch script which takes markers and exports screenshots at those. It uses the same format as the camera icon, but I was told DPX would allow me to export in high bit depth. So I could potentially use that script to output all my screencaps, and then simply convert all the DPX to TIFF if I still need TIFF.

Here's the script:

https://aescripts.com/still-exporter/

Of course, Adobe should add the ability to customize the presets used for the camera icon, and also make the playhead in the new export tab match the playhead in the edit tab, so that single frame exports will still work. An optional dialog box for naming the file would also be helpful when you're outputting multiple files to the same folder per project.