Note: This article covers ways to improve animation quality. Be aware that some of these settings may increase export time. For tips on reducing export time, see Tips for decreasing animation export times.

 

After an animation is created in SYNCHRO Pro, you can right click on the created/selected animation in the Animations window and choose Export Animation. 

 

In Export Animation window> Resolution tab, you can define the resolution, duration, codec, etc.

• Resolution:1920x1080, Frame Rate: 25. 
• Duration: typically set to the whole duration. Or set Start and Finish second to export part of the animation
• Split every (sec): This setting is helpful if you have a long animation to export and want to break the long animation into multiple clips. 
• Compression codec: The recommended format for efficient results is MP4, using default Codec and Bitrate. AVI may produce a higher quality but will take substantially more time to render.
• File for Export: click the Browse button and choose the directory that you'd like to save your animation.  
  • "Open animation location when complete" can be enabled to show the exported animation in folder. 

 Export Animation> Content tab to set your animation layout, render/shaded options, etc.

• Check the boxes to include content or windows in the animation
  
  • All windows/ content can be resized
• Shaded Options, use DirectX 11 with 4x or 8x anti-aliasing
• Add shadows if you’d like but it takes longer to export

Additional settings 

• Global Lighting: enable Global Lighting in 3D View Properties> Effects. Then turn on Axis Indicator and adjust Global Lighting direction with CTRL. 

• Lighting Intensity: go to Options> 3D View> Lighting Intensity to adjust settings for background (Ambient) or directional light (Diffuse)

• Shadow: If shadow is enabled in 3D View Properties> Effects, additional settings are available in Options> 3D View> Rendering Effects. 
  • Turn on/ off Jitter
  • Use higher numbers for resolution and samples

• Ambient Occlusion: If Ambient Occlusion is enabled in 3D View Properties> Effects, additional settings are available in Options> 3D View> Rendering Effects. 
  • Set Strength - multiplier on the default contribution for Ambient Occlusion
  • Set Radius - multiplier for the screen-space search radius of Ambient Occlusion
  • Enable/ disable highest quality

• Fast Silhouette Edges: Set threshold/tolerance used when comparing adjacent pixel depth values to detect silhouettes