AVD Video Processor

AVD Video Processor is a software that you can use to take screenshots from movies in order to create an animated GIF file.

The interface of the application is very plain and simple to navigate through. You can open a new file via the file browser only, because the "drag and drop" method is unsupported.

A snapshot can be easily taken with the click of a button while playing a video. In case of DVDs, you can also jump to a menu (e.g. sub-picture, root, audio, chapter), title or chapter, as well as set the speed, zoom level and position.

Once you have created a list of snapshots, you can perform various operations on them (e.g. resize, crop, rotate, flip), zoom in and out, apply an anti-aliasing filter (e.g. triangle, linear) and enable to maintain the aspect ratio. Settings can be restored to their default values at any time.

When it comes to the GIF animator, you can copy an image and place it in the clipboard, add an image series, export pictures to the AVI format, apply transition effects (e.g. cross dissolve, fade in and out, center zoom), modify the size and background color, and others.

You can create thumbnails, build an AVI file from a series of images or split it into audio and video files, change thumbnail settings (e.g. layout, size, gap, background), specify the output directory and resolution, and more.

AVD Video Processor requires a moderate amount of system resources and includes a brief help file for novices. The tool crashed once during our tests, when we attempted to open an ASF file. Also, the interface is outdated and the unregistered version has some severe restrictions.

The most important one is that you cannot actually save the GIF animation. In this case, we cannot properly test AVD Video Processor. It certainly has potential but you should take a look for yourself before making any decisions.