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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:37:29 -0500, Mike <Ama### [at] aol com> wrote:
>Heh heh. I'm not aware of any free gif makers, though PSP 5 will do it. It
>will set you back around $70 US. You can get a free demo from www.jasc.com.
Microsoft have a feww .GIF maker (I forget it's name) which can
convert AVI's to animated GIFs. I forget where it is exactly though :(
>There are a number of other tools listed under the animation FAQ at
>www.irtc.org. It's a quick place to start. My personal favorite for making
>.avi is videdit, which is free from microsoft. Combined with the indeo 5
>codec, it can make good quality videos that are pretty small. The only
>problem with using videdit is that it needs sequenced .dib files, which are
>a flavor of bmp. What I do is render tga's and then batch convert them to
>.dib using Paint Shop Pro. It can also import .flc, which is good if you
>have animation created with DTA. The down side is that flc are 256 colors,
>which doesn't look so hot.
>
DTA can also convert .TGA (and other file formats) to .DIB for VidEdit
to pull in without dropping to 256 colours. Unfortunately this can
result in a LOT of HDD space being used while making an animation...
Cheers,
Cliff Bowman
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http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/7855/
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