Welcome to TG Forums John.

Fist of all, Talkgraphics is not run by the Xara software company, but rather by a dedicated team of Xara software users/moderators and it's members.
A number of Xara developers do visit the forums on occassion and do respond to posts at times.

Xara Xtreme is able to export Flash animations and animated .gif
There are limitations. The best advice at this time would be to suggest you download a 30 day trial version from the Xara web site and then check the movie tutorials available from Xara and many members:

Eggs tutorials
Xhris's tutorials