bicycle opened this issue on Jan 14, 2007 · 21 posts
RodneyB posted Sun, 14 January 2007 at 2:14 PM
I love Corel Photopaint for this purpose. Easy to add effects and text to the animation as well.
There are freeware programs out there as well as trial versions of most of the popular (more powerful) software. Ulead's Gif Animator is an example:
http://www.ulead.com/ga/trial.htm
A bit harder to wrap your brain around is Imagemagick:
It can do a whole lot more than create animated gifs though and is probably more complicated than what you need. Works on servers as well as single computers.
A search via Google (or your favorite search engine) should turn up a lot of possibilities:
One I haven't looked at that seems interesting... Movies13.
I see it is available on this page:
http://jansfreeware.com/jfgraphics.htm
AVI2GIF (type it in a search) is a simple one too if you already have a AVI movie generated.
Keep in mind that you generally get what you pay for!
Rodney