About SWF and GIF
SWF is the special format of Macromedia's animation design software—Flash. SWF supports vector and lattice graphics, it also possesses specialties like: Zoom without distortion, small file size and so on. It uses streaming media technology; you download and play at the same time. It is widely used in web design, animation production and other fields at present. SWF files are also known as Flash files commonly. GIF is divided into animated GIF and static GIF, it supports transparent background image, "size" is small, and many on-line short flashes are GIF format. In fact, GIF saves a number of images as an image file, producing flash accordingly. In the final analysis, GIF is still image file format, so it’s very popular, preponderating over the SWF far-forth, so there is
SWF to GIF animation converter.