Why do still renders look sharper than animations? I'm doing an scene based on the Solar System (in Cycles), with the inconvenient that when i press 'Render' and then i press 'Save the Image As' it looks better, brighter and more defined than when i press Animation.
I saved the two images as PNG (Because i needed as Alpha images for later)but when i imported them to an editing software (on this case, Adobe After Effects) I can clearly see the difference...starting from the definition of the Orbit/Line.
I hope someone can lend me a hand about this one, i'm getting troubled.
Make sure the resolution for the final render is set at 100%.



If you are going to do further compositing/postproduction/color correction in other software, render to an image sequence in a lossless format using a higher bit depht like 16bit per channel.