Xara Cube and animation

[GOC]

Xara Cube is the best screensaver I have ever seen. I have mine set up with family photos (including the dog). I would like to put a simple animation on one of the faces. I have it set up as an animated gif, produced, of course, in Xara X. But Xara Cube will only take bitmaps or AVI's. How do I export an animated gif as an AVI? Or am I just displaying my ignorance of computer graphics?

[GOC]

Xara Cube is the best screensaver I have ever seen. I have mine set up with family photos (including the dog). I would like to put a simple animation on one of the faces. I have it set up as an animated gif, produced, of course, in Xara X. But Xara Cube will only take bitmaps or AVI's. How do I export an animated gif as an AVI? Or am I just displaying my ignorance of computer graphics?

[tomh]

If you use MS Windows you can convert animated gifs to avi using Gif Construction Set Professional (it does much more than this). It costs $20.00 and you can download a demo from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/....html#download
I haven't tried it but the company has a great pedigree (Alchemy Mindworks).

Tom

[schallow]

http://www.gamani.com

Regards! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[GOC]

Tom - I downloaded Gif Construction Set Professional and it did the job very well indeed. I intend to explore the other things it can do - I might even buy it!
My thanks to the Fontman as well

[WheelBrat]

Don't forget about JASC's Animation Shop which comes with Paintshop Pro. Version 7 comes with version 3 of Animation Shop. It is capable of handling the AVI format as well as GIF, ANI and Autodesk's .FLI & FLC.

Both great programs are very powerful and yet very inexpensive! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

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[Bob C.]

CorelDraw's PhotoPaint (7 in my case) Makes (saves)Animations as AVI's and I have converted GIF Anims to AVI using CorelDraw7