Rendering

I don't know if you're a student and that your school is covering for solidworks products or not. But if you are covered, you should try using SW Visualize for rendering both image and animation. I'd say the quality of the video will be on same par with images because SW Visualize render animation by rendering each frame as an image itself. However, SW Visualize rendering is hella 'consuming' to computers. I didn't pay attention to the heat when I was rendering, and now my battery is dead (burnt), I will forever have to plug in to use my computer. I blame SW Visualize for that :)

In my opinion,

Animations as well as other digital video formats use specific logarithms to condense into a manageable file sizes. The logarithms create pixel approximations between frames that are not precise or of high tolerance. The clarity loss is not apparent due to the momentary viewing of a video frame in an animation. Further time efficacy of the program is dependent upon the processing computer hardware. The Photoview 360 can be viewed as a base entry type of animator thus saved frames will not have the same clarity as a processed still image. Secondary processing software may be required to improve quality by use of proprietary logarithms & processes which as cad.ism stated comes with additional expense & considerations. Just my thoughts, would be interested in hearing other opinions. M.Bruton