[Nagittar]

is there a "SWISH"-like app available for the mac? (animated type effects)

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[godzookie2k]

That generates flash-output? For free? (thats all I've heard of swish, never used it though) no, but you might be able to track down "Logomotion" from a few years back for free by now, it did that sorta stuff. But I think livemotion/flash are our only alternatives.

[art_director]

If you want to open your purse there are Flash, Director and AfterEffects. All are spendy.

[train]

Swish is not freeware. I don't know of any free solutions.

However,
One mac alternative is SWfX available from <a href="http://www.wildform.com" target="_blank">Wildform</a>

Another alternative is to use Swish, Flax, etc. with VirtualPC. I tried Flax on VPC with a slow G3 and it ran just fine.

The novelty of cool text effects quickly wears off though.

[Gee-Man]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Nagittar:
<strong>is there a "SWISH"-like app available for the mac? (animated type effects)</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Try <a href="http://www.dvfonts.com/" target="_blank">India Pro</a>. Not free, but certainly cheaper than After Effects or other programs like it, and creates effects that looks a lot like Swish. I personally find a lot of the included animated text effects cheesy, but they can be useful at times.