GIF Animator 5 is a little expensive at first peek ($49.95, or $29.95 to upgrade), but it offers some great features that do set it apart from similar freeware, for example. It provides a helpful dialog box letting me know GIF Animator 5 has stopped responding, but this isn’t a big deal as it’s simply the result of application changes made in Vista. There’s also a crash error every time I close help in Vista. There’s no update for this either, though Windows help provides a link to a download of the old version of Windows Help to get you around this. Unfortunately, GIF Animator 5’s help files are not compatible with Vista so you’ve got to get at them another way. Something that has popped up running the program in Vista is a problem with product help. Search those first before you send email and then mention that you have when you first contact support to save an extra email and the additional wait while someone replies. Help & Support (4 out of 5)Įmail support is effective, though the techies do try to push you towards the community forums. Those with problems may have had more specific issues caused by other applications but GIF Animator 5 worked fine on Vista for me. Having tried it myself I haven’t seen any problems with Vista or with XP (there were also problems reported with XP). The machine I use daily runs Windows Vista so I was interested to see how it performed because I’d read reports from others experiencing problems running GIF Animator under Vista. Since Ulead GIG Animator 5 was released in 2001, it will most likely run on any PC manufactured since then with an operating system of Windows 98 or later. Memory usage after GIF Animator 5 is saved to Program Files is less than 16MB (which doesn’t exactly strain your hard drive), although this number grows slightly as you start finding the Ulead folders dotted around your document folders. It takes almost no time at all to do anything, and although there are sometimes a couple of odd crashes it is a remarkably sound application. Ulead GIG Animator 5 performance is flawless. GIF Animator 5 quickly loads a couple of components and you’re ready to go. Setup was simple, just enter the product key if you have one, or hit “Try” for a 15-day free trial. Installation & Setup (5 out of 5)Īt around 10MB, you can’t call Ulead GIF Animator 5 a hefty download, and it installs pretty quickly, too. Ulead GIF Animator 5 proves that even when the market changes, a product can stay the same and seven years later still be at the top of its class. If you work with GIF files or animations for anything, you’ll find Ulead GIF Animator 5 is an invaluable asset. Some of these other uses include presentations (place a couple of animations in a PowerPoint file to illustrate a point or to add a little humor) advertising (it’s very useful for producing banner advertisements, as several of the preset sizes in the program are banner ad sizes) and in applications (as mouse pointers, avatars, and so on). My first impressions weren’t great, but if you put looks aside you’ll find this animator offers features few others have, even on the enterprise level. When was the last time you visited a professional website and saw a page full of flashing GIFs? That said, would I part with $49.95 for Ulead GIF Animator 5? Yes. IntroductionĪs a developer I have to say that animated GIFs are almost dead. The article has been archived and left up for informational purposes. Editor’s Note: This review was originally written in January 2008 and reflects the author’s opinion at that time.
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