5acrefarmer said:
Hi. Unable to find anyone here in Australia that will sell me some Gif
Animation software. I don't want a free download that never works or to
download anything as my broadband connection is poor.
I just want to create those silly little animations that everyone else
seems
to do so often and easily ! Is there a popular software that is used or is
it
always via a larger software package?
I have downloaded Microsoft Gif Animator but can't get it to work properly
yet.
Although your question doesn't concern Frontpage, I will suggest this:
Since you already have MS Gif animator, I'd stick with that. It allows you
to import the images you create to assemble them into order and play them
back as the animation, but you have to first create the individual images
that make up the frames, in an image editor. What aspect of that
application have you not been able to get to work?
The gif animation you see on the web (*.gif types anyway) are the simplest
form of "cell animation" you'd see. In other words, they are a string of
still images (the terminology used is "cells" or "frames") put together and
displayed in succession and in sequence, to get the appearance of a moving
image.
Anyway I don't know that I 've told you anything here you're not already
aware of. Just curious, what is it about your broadband that is "poor" as
you state above. It is that you don't want to waste download quota on
software that might not suit your needs, or is it to do with quality, line
speed etc?
You also say you don't want to download software that may never work. Have
you had experience with free software (for your purpose here, or other uses)
that hasn't worked? If not, how do you know what will or won't work unless
you try it? :-\
Have you tried any of the Gif Animator type products (from "ULead" for
example?).....on
www.tucows.com there would be plenty of choices.
Hope this helps.
Andrew.
