I've gone through the postings here on problems with Gif Animator but didn't see anything about the problem I have. Sorry if I missed it.
I've been using PI and their Animator for about 8 years and never had any problems. My problem now is, I just got a new computer with Vista. PI works great, no problems. Gif Animator does open fine but when I want to use the animation wizard to import my .ufo frames I repeatedly get the message that the program has stopped responding and it shuts down. I'm able to import all other type files, just not .ufo files.
Strange problem with Gif Animator 5
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VikingAnimations
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Your problem is called Vista... GIF Animator 5 does not support Vista. And Corel has decided to drop GIF Animator (that is, no new Vista-compatible versions). You don't mention which version of PI you have, a Vista-compatible version or not. I'm not sure if that will make any difference - perhaps Heinz or others that have stuck their toes in the Vista waters can tell you more.
About all I can suggest is either fire up an old Win XP machine, or save those files in PI in .psd format, not as .ufo.
About all I can suggest is either fire up an old Win XP machine, or save those files in PI in .psd format, not as .ufo.
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LettucePrey
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Thanks for your reply Viking. I did read before posting that although it wasn't Vista compatible some people had no problems with it. Just though it was strange since it was works with everything but the .ufo files. l've been using PI since version 6 and am using PhotoImpact v.X3 now. I'll do all my playing around with them as .psd files in animation. Since the shadows are lost when saved as .psd files I'll save the final results as .ufos. Then I'll just batch convert them to .jpegs, which I always did anyway, so I can take them into animation.
I love playing with my animations. I'd show you some of the things I did but I don't know if I'm allowed to post a link to my site.
I love playing with my animations. I'd show you some of the things I did but I don't know if I'm allowed to post a link to my site.
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Ron P.
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We have a forum for sharing your compositions, it's called Member's Samples.
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VikingAnimations
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Aha... PI-X3... I've heard from at least one other X3 user that GA 5 won't open .ufo files made with that version, but it opens .ufo files made in earlier versions. Sounds to me like the developers may have changed things enough to mess up GA 5's ability to open those files.
Can you open .ufo files in GA 5 that were made with earlier versions of PI?
Can you open .ufo files in GA 5 that were made with earlier versions of PI?