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Carina22563852ht5o
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January 8, 2022
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Extremly poor quality upon export, regardless of setting

  • January 8, 2022
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I´ve encountered a deeply frustrating situation, where I have created a project in Animate, which I wish to export as a .mp4 video file. However when I finally finished my projevct and it became time to export my project, the quality turned out extremely poor regardless of how i changed the settings. This is mindboggling to me, because in the programme my stage area appears perfectly fine, and every single asset/layer looks great.

 

I´ve tried exporting in setting for H.264 (High Quality 1080 HD), H.264 blue-ray, Quicktime, Apple Pro Res and Custom - all with the same dissapointing results

 

The only time I got a slightly better result is when I exported with the settings Animated (GIF) and Default (AME). However in this some of the layers still appeared very blurry, while others were fine, but this file is also extremely heavy. 

 

I suspect, that the error might have something to do with broken or missing linkages, that I´ve imported into the library (similarly to how links work in indesign). Is this a thing in Animate? I tried to see whether I could restore any linkages, but I haven´t been able to find a way of doing so. 

 

Please help,  if you know anything about this.

 

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Carina22563852ht5oAuthor
Participant
January 9, 2022

Mario_CR, thank you! However, on of the layers still appear very pixelated (the layer in the first screenshot I´ve uploaded), do you have any knowledge partaining to why that might be?

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
January 9, 2022

When animating for exporting to video, you ought to use an ActionScript 3.0 FLA, and not an HTML5 Canvas one. If you use AS3 you can then select the first frame in any layer (making a new layer just for this would be worth it), then in the Actions panel add this line of code:

stage.quality = "16x16";

The exported video will look a lot better. 

    Mario_CR
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    Mario_CRCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 8, 2022

    Your stage size is 550×400 px, try making your stage size bigger. In Canvas, the stage resolution has to match or exceed the desired video resolution, otherwise you're just stretching the pixels in Media Encoder.

    If you're making non-interactive content in general I'd suggest to work in an Actionscript 3 document instead which doesn't have this requirement.

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