topic Re: Full Resolution Animation in CFD Forum

Full Resolution Animation

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:44:13 GMT

I was trying to put together a video using the save animation tool in CFD but I could not get the resolution to go above 640X480. I changed the resolution to 1920X1080 underneath the static image button located in the results tab. Despite this the AVI files produced still come out at 640X480.

Re: Full Resolution Animation

Amal.C — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:45:04 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for reaching out 🙂

Currently, the video resolution created by CFD is limited to 640X480 and it cannot be improved.

Our Developers are at the moment working on improving it to much better resolution for future versions.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Amal

Re: Full Resolution Animation

siegijank — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:34:22 GMT

Is this issue already solved? I also need videos with a higher resolution since 640x480 is definitely not state of the art.

The suggested workflow of setting the static image resolution size to a higher resolution size doesn’t work for me either with CFD2019.2. But it could also be an issue of CFD2019.2 since this version is very buggy.

Re: Full Resolution Animation

iepure — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:16:41 GMT

Please developers sort this out. 640x480 (VGA) resolution, something we were using 35 years ago; developed for the IBM PS/2, is just not acceptable. It can't be used on a professional website or even a school powerpoint presentation - it's just useless. My daughter's school laptop is 1920x1080. It's just not the mark of a professional product.

Re: Full Resolution Animation

Chris.Lechien — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:32:52 GMT

We are coming up on EIGHT YEARS where we were told the developers were working to make this better, and in CFD 2026, it is still broken.

When will this be updated to actually WORK the way the documentation SAYS it works??

Re: Full Resolution Animation

siegijank — Thu, 22 May 2025 12:37:05 GMT

I've moved away from Autodesk because of those things!

Re: Full Resolution Animation

iarianmehr — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:57:55 GMT

Is there any update here? I can not find the video resolution improvment yet.

Re: Full Resolution Animation

dhoni4455 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:48:49 GMT

That’s a common quirk in CFD—changing the static image resolution doesn’t affect the animation export. The Save Animation tool is locked to 640×480 unless you use an external screen-capture or post-processing tool. If you need full HD, exporting image sequences instead of an AVI and stitching them together usually works best.

Re: Full Resolution Animation

nrtallon — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:06:38 GMT

It's been 9 years...