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corban YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 35 Canada	PNG saveFrame MUCH faster then JPEG, TIFF, GIF Sep 29th, 2008, 5:45pm   I did some tests and noticed that using saveFrame() to PNG format is 2-3X faster then any other format option.

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Re: PNG saveFrame MUCH faster then JPEG, TIFF, GIF Reply #2 - Sep 30th, 2008, 1:36am   corban wrote on Sep 29th, 2008, 5:45pm: I did some tests and noticed that using saveFrame() to PNG format is 2-3X faster then any other format option. For what it's worth, this will vary widely between platforms (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux), versions of Java (1.4, 1.5, or 1.6), and depending on your image dimensions.