ZdNetItalia : Ulead GIF Animator

Create compact GIF animations
Ulead GIF Animator lets you quickly produce compact GIF animations for your Web page with drag-and-drop simplicity. Featuring a logical, well-designed interface, it offers support for virtually all common image formats. Use it to easily convert .avi and Quicktime files directly to .gif animations. Features include smart frame and palette optimization, visual composition, the ability to view multiple frames simultaneously, global image layer change commands, and complete palette control. You'll also find image cropping; layer merging; creation of banner text; transition, cube, and color animation effects; palette gradients; and infinite looping. Ulead GIF Animator is a particularly good choice for the less artistically inclined. It includes an animation wizard and several tools that employ design features for crawling text, transitions, and many other special effects that will have you producing outstanding animations with minimal effort. Reviewed on Oct 14 1998.