# Render options have no effect on render quality

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**Created:** [February 13, 2019, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/render-options-have-no-effect-on-render-quality/9411 "2019-02-13T10:13:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![BobSynfig](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/bobsynfig/32/175_2.png) [@BobSynfig](https://forums.synfig.org/u/BobSynfig)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/render-options-have-no-effect-on-render-quality/9411/2 "2019-02-13T19:16:02Z")

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FFMPEG rendering is “a bit buggy” at the moment.  
There are other ways to create a clean video, let’s check the explanations by Lobozamora 🙂

> [@Rendered video has visual noise in each format](https://forums.synfig.org/t/rendered-video-has-visual-noise-in-each-format/9298):
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> On Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit, I’m rendering a short animated loop (simple stickman dancing for 6 seconds), and each format I try, the render is either broken or has odd distortions around the character. These are my settings when I go to File -\> Render For rendered file formats: .avi (broken = gray and flickery), .mov (broken = gray and flickery), .mpeg (almost good, but has some undesired graininess around the character) I used Target -\> Auto, as well as for each format the reco…

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