Headline Studio is an impressive software that produces broadcast quality banners for the web and hence benefiting both browser and creator. The product from Metacreations has got everything that has got everything for banner creation software. Headline Studio has full-featured options available for users and is robust and creates quality banners in no time.

Key Features

• Headline Studio has a visually impressive Mac OS interface. The problem with this is, it brings extra load on processor and sacrificing the intuitiveness and familiarity of Mac OS.  Window Widgets used in Headline Studio are non-standard, which can be confusing to beginners. Also there is no option for collapsing window, and the normal widget that used to be the on the right of title bar in softwares is simply absent in Headline Studio. Also the desktop is not visible to user in the background; there is a blank, earth tone pattern instead of this. Don’t get disappointed, once you can ignore these factors you have a very powerful software before yourself!!!
• Headline Studio produces crispy and clean web graphics which uses a time line-based approach for creating animation. The timeline feature is further upgraded with “Key Points” with which user can further update properties of text or images for animation. Users are also provided with different transitions and 3-D effects that can be encapsulated with each key point. These transitions include bouncing objects, splitting text by letter or word, click here banners, speedy text, cycling colors through different letters and many more. The texts in banners are re-editable even after effects and filters have been applied on them.
• Learning Curve is another unique feature in Headline Studio. Though the process may look a bit confusing at beginning; there are detailed tutorials available for users both well diagrammed and well written with which users can easily understand this feature.
• Another disadvantage user will find in Headline Studio is the lack of layer supports. Users with Photoshop background will find it really distracting in the software. Also it lacks JavaScript support for users.
• Once the animation is created user can simply preview it using the GIF Export dialog. Users just need to set the number of frames in the resulting file and also click preview. Headline Studio immediately produces preview with the user specifies number of frames.
• Even though Headline Studio aims on building web banners, user can also use this software for creating any type of animation. User can import any image of there choice (GIF, JPEG, TIFF formats etc) and can perform animations effectively.

The Verdict

If you create web banners in a regular basis, Headline Studio definitely should be a software in your list. IT reduces your time in creating banners and also improves the productivity. The software though a little difficult at first is really powerful to use once you get used to it.  Try it and get impressed!!