I recently started experimenting with time lapse animations.  Some may have seen that moon animation I posted recently. 

Are there any good methods of animation better than others? 

I've used MS Gif Animator which is a lot of work loading one image at a time. Something you could load multiple image files would be nice. 
I have an 8 hour sequence of sky images I took last night with my DSLR.  20 frames per hour for a total of 160 frames.  That's a lot of frames to load one at a time. 

I was looking at how to make animations in Photoshop which looks even more tedious. 
There's got to be a better way; Is there any software available on the Internet that is more automated?

Or is there software you would recommend that I can use jpegs and maybe make a Flash file? Or mpeg - avi, Mjpeg etc..  
 
Meanwhile I will be looking around the web. 

I know,, I'm conversing with myself.

I found a nice image to AVI program so I can take a bunch of jpegs and compile them all into a nice little AVI video.   Works really well and saves an enormous amount of time.

http://www.aswsoftware.com/products/imagetoavi/imagetoavi.shtml

so hows it work? ive been using PS myself, you can do alot in PS, like- time the sequence change, duplicate frames- etc, it is a pain though if you just wanna animate a few frames real quick

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so hows it work? ive been using PS myself, you can do alot in PS, like- time the sequence change, duplicate frames- etc, it is a pain though if you just wanna animate a few frames real quick

Image to avi is pretty quick and simple. Just load all your images, then you can configure the frame rate and when you compile it you can choose the compression method of your choice then just click start. 

If you have Window XP or Vista you should have Windows Movie Maker. With that there is a lot more you can do with transitions, animation effect etc. More time consuming but still a easier than PS.

 Problems come when sharing the animations on line through a image host like photobucket that use a cheezy quicktime image degrading program to view the video. The true results are much better than what you see there.

Here's the download link for that last one i just made

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mkmyxdrkt4m/Northernnewyearsky.wmv