Animiz Animation Maker

PowerPoint presentations are all well and good, but they can be considered lazy sometimes. Because it is always better to show rather than tell, animating a presentation as much as possible is a sure way to catch a crowd's attention. This is where Animiz Animation Maker comes in, with its vast array of animation tools. It combines the best features of presentation makers and video editors, while keeping everything simple. The software can help you create high quality animated presentations, without too much effort from your part.

Animiz Animation Maker comes with several price tags, but a free version is available as well, though its content is a bit limited. Installing the software is an uneventful procedure, which shouldn't take more than a minute to complete. There is no need to install any special tools or services before running the program and you don't need powerful hardware.

When you launch Animiz Animation Maker, you can decide to start a blank project or start with one of the many templates placed at your disposal. They are organized in various categories, on the software's home screen, where you can also manage your projects, locally or in the cloud. A particularly useful feature is the possibility of starting a project from an existing PowerPoint presentation. If you already prepared a presentation, you can import it right away and enhance it.

The main editing environment has the same layout as a video editor, but it also has some features which you would normally find in a slideshow editor. You can create one or more scenes in a column, on the left side of the interface, and insert all sorts of objects from a large collection, on the right side of the window. Once inserted, you can move them anywhere in the editing area, resize them and manipulate them in other ways, by clicking and dragging.

Inserted items are represented in their own channels in a timeline, like in a video editor, beneath the main editing area. You can resize their corresponding bars according to how long you want to keep an object visible and you can also add new effects and animations in an object's channel. You can choose from various pre-made effects to emphasize an object or move it along a path. Also, some objects come with their own unique animations. For example, you can add people, who play various roles, for which you can choose from a wide selection of animations.

It has to be mentioned that Animiz Animation Maker comes with some really well made objects and animations. They have a simple, cartoony look, but they get the job done pretty well. Anything you want to represent can be done in a simple and fun manner.

Animations can be exported as videos, in MP4, AVI or other formats or as GIF animations. Another possibility is to publish animations to the cloud. The software provides you with a good amount of output options for cloud publishing, as well as the advantage of having the animations available online. This way, you don't need to take it with you on a removable memory device and copy it to another computer. You can just play it on a browser.

Presentations can be brought to life and made fun and interesting, without too much effort, thanks to Animiz Animation Maker's smart functionality.