Animate PNG export slightly blurry

Thank you all so much for your suggestions and taking the time to look into this frustrtating issue! I really appreciate it.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to work in terms of exporting what I see on the stage cleanly to a PNG.

I think the best solution is to take screenshots for now and then edit out the backgrounds. Pretty sloppy, but for a small amount of still images, it'll work!

Is it possible that this weirdness is caused by this document being super old (as in, AS1) and then upgraded to the latest version?

Thanks again,

Sam

Hi mate,

If I understood your explanations correctly, you export a symbol to PNG sequence by right-clicking it in the Library and choosing the option from the context menu.

I haven't used this functionality before due to the nature of my work, but just did a quick test in AnCC 19.2.1 on Win 10 and the export is perfectly sharp.

My guess is that the problem comes from some display scaling that you have on your high DPI mac monitor.

I wouldn't be surprised if animate just captures the images via the screen buffer...

Anyway... I'd suggest that you go to native resolution, restart Animate and try again. There is a chance that it will work as expected.

Animate does not seem good at hadnling non-native resolutions well.

Hope this helps!

Hi,

I just tested this and unchecking smoothing unfortunately doesnt help. I see it does get pretty blurry. If you try the Export>Image option it works better then the Export>Image (Legacy). You will loose a little quality since the file is being rasterized to a bitmap, and all your vector lines are being converted to pixels. And because of that it will add some anti-aliasing to smooth the edges so it doesn't look like its made of up squares (pixels), which it indeed is.

Not sure its worth the effort, but you can get it a little bit cleaner if you take a screen shot of your image as you want it in Animate then open the screenshots in Photoshop, drop out the background, and export to a PNG24. But the new export option seems to be pretty good. See my two test pics below..... not much of a difference, but maybe the Photoshop export is a little bit cleaner?
excuse the quick art! 

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
mark

So what happens when you uncheck "Smooth"?

Hi there. I am wondering if the publish setting for images in ANCC makes a difference when you export a symbol to png.

Anyway, i would increase the dpi then you could probably bring it in PS after and change the image settings - upsampling/downsampling, etc...