Jacquelin Vanderwood May 15, 2001 Power up your presentations and web sites with Animation Factory's "Power Media Pro". What is this product? It's four CD's packed full of 3D animations, backdrops, and photoclips right at your fingertips. There are over 15,000 gif animations, 1,000 backgrounds, and 1,000 photo-clips to choose from. There are all kinds of categories, too many to list in this review. To view the items, all you need is an internet browser. The program is extremely simple to use. The stills come in 24-bit PNG with Alpha Channel, Huge Clear, Huge White meaning a clear or a white background. The backdrops can be right-clicked, copied, and pasted right into your PowerPoint presentations. In regards to the backdrops, each example you see is accompanied by a variety of that same design. The animations can be saved with a Huge Black, Huge Clear, or Huge White background. Also, Still Black, Still Clear, and Still White gives you the option to download this image as an animation or a still. The animations that I have included below were reduced in Adobe Image Ready. A side note, I first had to uncheck Read-only in Properties so that I could save them to my hard drive. In reference to copyright topics, you are limited to how you can use the images. You cannot sell them and others are not allowed to download them and use them. It's the basic copyright issues.     
    
To find out more about this product and others, dial up www.AnimationFactory.com. 
This is an excellent source of gif animations, stills, and backdrops. I would recommend it to everyone who owns a computer. It's only $99.95. System Requirements are cross-platform Windows, Mac, Linux
A compatible program such as Flash, Director, PowerPoint (except version 97), Image Ready, Photoshop, and other web design programs | | Copyright 2000, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved |
