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Ulead GIF Animator 5 got bought by Corel or something at some point?
The copyright for my registered version 5.05 goes up to 2001. Not sure how limited the shareware version you may still be able to dig up somewhere would be.
The registered version doesn't run perfectly in modern Windows; some file open/save dialogs will crash the whole thing. So I just kind of save wherever it opens to successfully and move the file manually later. : P
Anyway, the program lets you load bitmaps and layered PSD files and so forth and arrange them together into little movies; you have frame-by-frame access for arranging things, can tell things to move from point to point over a certain number of frames, and other simple animating and video editing things. You can set the play duration of individual frames. And of course you have all sorts of color and animation optimization options when it comes down to exporting your little soundless movie as a .GIF file.
There ARE now what seem likely to be much more efficient animation formats, for instance I found a cool Metal Sonic animation GIF on selectbutton https://selectbutton.net/t/sonic-mania/2289/231 that's 2.26 MB but when I uploaded it to Tumblr, Tumblr converted it into a 361 KB webp https://smbhax.tumblr.com/post/738365350038683648/ (although it hasn't managed to get savings nearly that huge on GIFs I've converted out of Ulead, maybe because they're all dithered and stuff and the Metal Sonic one is like very flat-color optimized probably by someone who knew what they were doing with the animated GIF format in the first place (and had a better GIF editor ; D)! |
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