GIF Movie Gear 4.2.1

• License:

  Free to try; $39.95 to buy

• Editor's Rating:

  3.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.5 stars (out of 8 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  456,654

• Operating Systems:

  Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

• Limitations:

  30-day trial

• Date Added:

  July 10, 2009

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version GIF Movie Gear 4.02 GIF Movie Gear 3.02 GIF Movie Gear 3.0 GIF Movie Gear 2.61 GIF Movie Gear 2.5 GIF Movie Gear 2.03 GIF Movie Gear 2.0 Cel Assembler 1.2f Cel Assembler 1.2 Cel Assembler 1.1

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Publisher's description of GIF Movie Gear

From Gamani Productions:

GIF Movie Gear makes building GIF animations easy. The intuitive interface of this animator uses a filmstrip metaphor to show all the frames at once, and all aspects of the animation (transparency, timing, and order.) can be controlled using drag and drop and the toolbar. The application's useful features include palette reduction, inter-frame optimization, animation resizing, cropping, support for Photoshop PSD, PNG, JPEG, AVI, BMP, ICO, Flash, SWF, ANI, and GIF.

Animated PNG support is included in this release.

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Editor's review of GIF Movie Gear

• 3.0 stars

• "GIF Movie Gear"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: GIF Movie Gear 4.2.1

Although it's not the prettiest program, GIF Movie Gear provides decent functionality for creating GIF animations. The application includes a basic graphic editor, although you won't find ready-made effects or automatic animation. Frames are shown as a sequence, not in a real time line, which makes editing long animations difficult. However, you will have no difficulty setting animation delays, swapping images, or changing the palette. You can import JPEGs, GIFs, or AVIs as source files. The program converts quickly, turning AVIs into animated GIFs in seconds, even for 1MB files. The utility also provides solid capabilities for Internet optimization, such as crop and resize or reducing the amount of colors. The optimization dialog box displays current size and possible savings, but it doesn't let you preview the optimized animation. If you already have a good graphics editor, GIF Movie Gear suffices.

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