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tamaranth ([personal profile] tamaranth) wrote2007-11-19 09:43 am
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Software enquiry

I'm looking for free software (online app, trial version, freeware, whatever) that will let me specify a start position (A) and end position (B) and produce an animation of the journey from A to B. This is such a vague requirement that my Google-fu fails. Help pls?

[identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com 2007-11-19 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
What sort of effect are you looking for? I'm imagining that you want the sort of 'line moving along a map' beloved of old adventure serials (and homaged* in at least one of the Indiana Jones films)?

*If that is a word, he says in the guilty knowledge that it almost certainly isn't.

[identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com 2007-11-19 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
that's the kind of thing, yes!
And 'homaged' should be a word ...

[identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com 2007-11-19 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
It looks as if Easy GIF Animator (http://www.blumentals.net/egifan/index.php) might do the job - it has a free trial version, although as it's priced in US$ even registering it would be fairly cheap. As it's a PC rather than Mac app I've not had a chance to try it out but it looks like it might let you define a line along a path.