All rendered outputs of UE 5.8 look soft compared to viewport and to high resolution still output

Summary

UE 5.8 on Mac studio M1 64 GB RAM. Works excellent. Image nice and sharp on viewport. Can output beautiful high resolution stills. But all output renders look soft compared to viewport.

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

All rendered outputs are soft when compared to the viewport and when compared to when I output just a single high resolution frame. Both of those look sharp and beautiful

Steps to Reproduce

I have tried just about everything that I could think of in addition to what Claude and Gemini could think of as well. Whether it’s ProRes or EXR the images look soft compared to the viewport. Please help.

Expected Result

Every export looks soft when trying all the possible solutions. But when I choose to export a high resolution still image it looks as spectacular as the viewport in UE 5.8.

Observed Result

All rendered outputs are soft. But the viewport and the high resolution still frame output are nice and sharp

Affects Versions

5.8

Platform(s)

Mac