Bad quality of imported video

[vikyy58120118]

I have a problem with video quality.

I need to make custom navigation through video (5 buttons that allow to watch it from 5 cue points), so I've imported H.264 video to Animate project through File > Import > Import Video > Load external video with playback component. It has imported with the same size (1280x720), but the quality is much worse.

Firstly I thought this would change after "publishing" the project, but it hasn't. And I couldn't find any quality options in FLVPlayback component inspector.

What should I do to save my video quality?

Thank you.

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

The video is external, it will be at the same quality it is when viewed in other programs. But, you can increase the quality of the SWF that you are making. 

In the Actions panel of frame 1 of the timeline, put in this code:

stage.quality = "16x16";

That will set it to very high quality. If that then ends up being too demanding to play, you could try lower settings that are still good enough, like this for example:

stage.quality = "best";

[vikyy58120118]

Thank you a lot!

I found out, that one of the videos had bad quality originally (it wasn't obvious), but with others your code worked!