creating animation

There was a time when people had to draw on acetate to make animations but now we have computers. So you'd think it would be easy to make a short animated commercial, you can even put animation into your powerpoint presentations. BUT can you put a pptx into windows movie maker, no, of course not. I found out there was a youtube competition to win $25000 worth of advertising, and I already had the idea but there was no way I was going to get that idea done, so I animated it. Easy enough, I thought. Then you come up against the road blocks that microsoft have so kindly put in your way. Anyway, it meant that I had to do something very similar to the 'old school' animators and animate it frame by frame which I did in Fireworks as an animated gif. These could then be put together in windows movie maker. Of course, then I wanted to record an audio track on there and do some editing of the audio track (something you used to be able to do in windows, but not in vista it seems). So, I had to find a program that would let me do that and I was lucky enough to find Free Audio Editor http://www.free-audio-editor.com/ which turned out to be a pretty great program. Want to see the finished result?

Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWhf3kF8WiA