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, order, etc.) can be controlled using drag&drop and the toolbar. Useful features include palette reduction, inter-Frame optimization, animation resizing, cropping, undo/redo, support for Photoshop PSD, JPEG, AVI, BMP, ICO, Animated Cursors, and GIF files, export to AVI, ICO, ANI, and GIF, gifanimation and generation of HTML code for putting the animating GIF on the Web.
Among its many features, GIF Movie Gear offers:
* Easy-to-use intuitive interface that lets you see all the frames at once and to use the mouse to interact directly with the frames (view screen shot).
* Multiple selection of frames for easy manipulation of more than one frame at a time. And because of the superior interface, you can see which frames you have selected.
* Control of all aspects of animation from delays to removal methods to palette management directly from the toolbar (view screen shot).
* Edit Timing quickly and easily directly in the preview window, either frame by frame or using relative or absolute global changes (view screen shot).
* LiveEdit lets you edit a frame or the whole animation (as layers in Photoshop) directly in the Image Editor of your choice. Changes saved in the editor appear automatically in GMG.
* 24-Bit Color support to let you build animations (AVI) without losing any color data. Also useful for icon files and for PSD, PNG, BMP, and JPEG manipulation.
* Palette reduction with a before-and-after animated view to help get your file size down while maintaining the animation's image quality (see example).
* Inter-frame optimization to shrink the file size even more (see example).
