LiveSwif Lite

LiveSwif Lite is an application that includes standard options for creating Flash animations, buttons, buttons and movies.

The interface is not particularly attractive, but we must take into account that the app has not been updated for a pretty long time. You can import images (e.g. BMP, GIF, JPG, TGA, EMA, WMF), sounds (WAV, MP3) and existing SWIF movies in your project.

Basic drawing tools that you can use include selection, freehand, curve, rectangle, spline, flat, contour, deformation, zoom, and text. Plus, LiveSwif Lite provides a collection of shapes in its library.

It is possible to clone objects, undo and redo your actions, edit movie properties when it comes to the size, frame rate and background color, insert layers, scenes, buttons and sprites, loop the sound, set the path motion and transform it, as well as manipulate objects (e.g. group, bring to front, align, combine, merge, convert to shape).

The project can be saved to file for further modifications, or exported as a single image (JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIF) or SWF movie. Several samples are provided for beginner, intermediate and advanced users.

LiveSwif Lite is surprisingly light on the system resources, and it has a good reaction speed. We have not come across any problems in our tests, since the program did not hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. On the downside, it does not contain a context menu or Options panel. LiveSwif Lite is not compatible with newer operating systems.