GIMP Version: 2.6.11
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: 7 64bit
GIMP Experience: Intermediate Level

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Saving an animated gif with the same quality as the playback version, is there a way to up the quality when saving

Don't know what to tell you about upping the quality, but that's a groovy animation, man.

save it with 256 colors??

The animation looks cool

About the question...no ...gif have a very low quality, that is not visible if the image to save contain very few colors
(no more than 255 :
255 may seems many but we are not talking of colors on a painter palette that could be mixed togheter,or diluited
consider that the most simple gradient as from black to white contain dozens and dozens of colors.

You may get better result by converting to index manually using a dedicated palette (=sampling the colors that you wish more to preserve ), playing with the settings (as the dithering options:
dithering may help to emulate the missed colors but may also create a sort of chickenpox effect,
another option should allow to minimize color bleeding when dithering, but at risk to enhance the chickenpox FX,
no dithering avoid chickenpox but at the price of a posterize effect ..that may even be cool )

So there is not a fixed rule just several option to play with , according to the image

with additional plugin you may also save animation as Flash(,swf) or as animated png (apng) that may have much better quality but also much bigger file size

In a few words the xcf file and so the playback version is in RGBA mode, meaning that support several MILLIONS colors

But gif support only index mode so that millions of colors are reduced to 255, and quality reduced on the same proportion

I tried the apng but get an error everytime

i am trying to find out wich of the several Windows version of this plugin works better, i maybe i will know better later

NOW back to your problem i would try to see if change options help:

as example UNchecking everything except "save as animation"

Humm..maybe you may also left checked "save resolution" but i would avoid to check the other options

thanks
I tried unchecking apng options but same error. So is apng able to use millions of colors unlike gif?

"So is apng able to use millions of colors unlike gif?"

Yes but the file may be much bigger

More exactly apng support both Index (255 colors) and RGBA mode. so result and file size will depend by the image mode
( in gimp menu you may change from Image/image Mode...
BUT here a warning, changing from RGB to INDEX is a destructive process, once done you may recover original quality only using UNDO )

Much, much bigger!! Unless you are working with only a few frames, it's almost not worth the effort.

Case in point: files/hummingbird_ani.png

just installed parthas 2.7.4 and saved my gif as apng..worked great, nice quality and size
RGB mode 1.84 mb

That looks great. APNG works nicely when only using a few frames.

it is only 5 frames but this is the first i've been able to get the plugin to work