Can you snapshot in Motion

I'm mostly a Maya and AE user in creating effects but I've been doing some work in Motion and can't seem to find how you can snapshot a particular render for comparison to another. This is particularly important when trying to set up lighting effects, shadows, etc. so you can try alternate settings and look at them. Other than having to go in and key each setting, jump a frame and change there does not appear to be an easy way to do this. I've searched the manuals and have not found anything there either.
The obvious, at least what I've been doing is rendering a frame out, make changes, render it out, call up the frames in Preview and look at the two for comparison. Bit of a pain.
Am I missing something simpler here?

No in AE you can take a snapshot of your current composition. 4 of them actually.
"To take a snapshot, click the Take Snapshot button at the bottom of the panel or press Shift+F5, Shift+F6, Shift+F7, or Shift+F8.
To view a specific snapshot, press and hold F5, F6, F7, or F8"
There is a small camera on the bottom of the AE preview window. You click it and you get a rendered snapshot of the current frame. You can then adjust things as you like and take another snapshot. You can take up to 4 and then call them back as you like so you can do quick Before and After comparisons. Very handy. I use it quite often. In Maya it is even easier as they have a render preview window. Granted renders in Maya are much more sophisticated than what Motion is doing but from a lighting, texture and render perspective of what you are trying to accmoplish, actually not much different at all. I am quite surprised this feature is not available in Motion or at least I can't find and easy way to do it.

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