Finished product looks grainy, but havent changed settings

[Romanpen]

Hey, so I only actually finish a product once every few months and always seem to have trouble at the end, getting it to the right look on the final product. I can't remember what I did different, but this project i'm trying to turn into a watchable video seems way grainer than my last vid. I haven't changed settings but it just looks like crap. When I preview it in animate it looks smooth and great but for some reason whenever i export video/media then run it through media encoader it looks like crap.   What am I doing wrong here?

[Mario_CR]

Hello, can you post your export settings?

[Romanpen]

yes, here they are

[Mario_CR]

That looks like a fairly low resolution, plus you're using a strange aspect ratio.

Go to the properties panel (Doc Tab) and change the stage size to 1920 x 1080 px, that will give you a standard 1080p video. The quality will be noticeably better.

[Romanpen]

Thank you!

[Romanpen]

Ok, so I just did that and it thew the camera way off, and messed up some of the tweens. Is that normal or did i mess up?

[Mario_CR]

There was a bug like that a few versions ago, I think it was fixed in Animate 21.0.5. https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/fixed-issues.html

The easiest solution would be to update, but if for some reason you can't, try this workaround instead:

1. Leave your stage at the original resolution.
2. Go to Export Video/Media and in the pop-up window go to render size and increase the resolution. The export panel won't let you change the width and height individually (to keep the sizes proportional) In that case, change one or the other.(ex. try increasing the W value to 1920 or higher)
3. In format select QuickTime (don't select H.264 or any other).
4. In preset select Default (Animate). That means the video will be forced to render in Animate skipping Media Encoder entirely.
5. Hit export. That will give you a lossless MOV file.
6. If you need an MP4, take that MOV and drop it into Media Encoder, convert it to H.264 and you should get a proper MP4 video now.

(If your version is Animate 2022 skip the first two steps, just increase the render size and export normally)