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Once you are done with creating and editing your animation, you will undoubtedly want to
save it. GIF Animator provides several output methods to meet your specific needs. You can
save your work as an animated GIF file, or save the frames of the animation individually, or
even output it as digital movie file. In addition, GIF Animator also gives you an option of
exporting your work as a stand-alone executable file.
It is important that you save your work every now and then whether it is finished or not.
Saving allows GIF Animator to keep the object information of your animation project (*.uga),
which you can open again so that you can continue your work where it was left off.
When you save your animation for the first time or select File: Save As, you will find a list of
different saving file formats to choose from in the Save As menu. The following is a brief
overview of where these file formats are best to use.
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GIF File - This saves the entire animation project by stacking it together as a standard GIF
file. GIF(s) are highly used format for displaying animations in the World Wide Web
because of its lossless compression.
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UGA File - GIF Animator defaults to saving files in its native format. This format retains all
the object informations individually making it easier to modify it in the future.
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UFO File - UFO stands for Ulead File for Objects format which can be edited using Ulead
PhotoImpact (6). Select a frame and save it in UFO format file then you can edit the objects
and base image independently of each other using Ulead PhotoImpact (6).
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PSD File - This is Adobe Photoshop's native file format. Select a frame to save, edit the
objects, layers, and base image independently from one another with Photoshop.
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Image Frames - This is quite useful when you intend to save all the frames as individual,
sequentially numbered files. Each frame in the sequence are labeled as name001.jpg,
name002.jpg and so on, where name is the one you specified in the Save As dialog box.
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Video File - GIF Animator allows you to save your animation project in a video file format
such as AVI or MPEG. These file formats can transmit the images faster by compressing and
streaming them.
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Macromedia Flash (SWF) - Shockwave Flash is Macromedia's native file format. This is
ideal for presenting vector-based graphics such as text, line drawings or any non-photo-
realistic imagery in the Web.
Tip: At least, you should save your animation as the project format (*.uga), so that all attributes you
set in GIF Animator can be always retained.
SAVING & EXPORTING
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