Since animator is using ffmpeg to render each shot... i wonder if it would be possible to just open up the rendering command so we can use our own custom .cmd or even just a our own ffmpeg strings?

With something like this we would be able to pretty much render using any external rending utility i think (not 100% sure). But even if i had to create a custom autohotkey script to save a snapshot in lumion as the animation progresses it would essentially be the same.