Out of interest, I downloaded moon.gif from the address given by Masaki. I
imported the anim GIF into Flash and then exported it in a number of
different formats - SWF, Quicktime MOV and AVI.

The AVI came out the largest - 2.3M! (uncompressed) whilst the SWF and MOV
were nearly equal - 137kb. The original GIF is 163kb.

So my question is would it not be easier to export animations from Guide as
an animated gif, probably the most widely supported bitmap animation around.
The problem being how to dump each required frame into a gif image.
I suppose letting the object animate for a while whilst Guide automatically
does a screen dump every 'n' seconds would be the easiest way to go.
This would not solve the problem of screen resolution - dumping a 100
1024x768 screens makes for a large file when the user may only want a
150x150 portion.
Can the size of a screen dump be designated or is it set at 'full screen'?

Anyone else have thoughts on this?

regards

James

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