1. Animating a statistics charts, trend lines over scatter plots, trends over time. I thought you mentioned something, "I would know the value of such a gif unless it was for software promotion, neither would I do this animation as a gif." What other way can this be done?

2. Can Xara do this? zooms, horizontal pans
like these features that come with Predator movie DVD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjrBdMUl7d4 (not the beginning 3-d rolling ball intro)
inserting same link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjrBdMUl7d4