Re: best program to make animated gif for powerpoint???

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Set-up varies a lot depending on the task I'm working on.

A small motion GIFs can make hyperlinking, both self explanatory and
professional in appearance. It can animate a corporate logo throughout the
presentation.

Combined with animation, a swimmer can really swim across the screen, or an
object on the slide can change perspective as the screen changes (think
matrix slow-mo effect).

With multiple masters available in PowerPoint 2002 and up, you can place a
GIF on the master, if you ill need it for multiple slides. You can use them
as the background for an autoshape, to add a new dimension of animation to a
slide. You can use the transparency in a GIF to add motion and effects.
Really, a GIF is one of the more useful tools when putting together a
presentation.

However (and this is big), animation and motion are not always welcome in a
presentation. If the motion will distract or detract: trash it. The
unnecessary use of gratuitous animation is one of the common mistakes of new
presenters.


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"LisaH" <LisaH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I was just thinking...
> how do you set up your animated gifs in PPT? I mean, do you only create a
> side bar that animates and you don't put it as a background, but just have
> it
> play on top at the side? Or do you have an animation play in the
> background
> throughout the slide?
>
> Thanks Bill!
>
> "Bill Dilworth" wrote:
>
>> OfficeFx is a great PowerPoint addin that creates high quality animated
>> backgrounds. Note that it has some minimum requirements for processor
>> and
>> graphics card. These minimums are fairly high end for most laptops, but
>> the
>> results are very nice.
>>
>> I use MS GIF Animator, to animate mine, but there are several other
>> softwares out there, some of which offer pretty good results.
>>
>> If you are creating a full size background (1024 x 768 x 16) and adding
>> additional frames (overlays): the GIF file will be big. There is simply
>> no
>> way to compress that amount of information down to 100KB and still have
>> it
>> look recognizable. If your computer cannot display the file well, then
>> animated backgrounds may be beyond your machines capabilities.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bill Dilworth
>> A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
>> Users helping fellow users.
>> http://billdilworth.mvps.org
>> -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
>> yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
>> yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
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>>
>>
>> "LisaH" <LisaH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:6DD5EFEE-D3A6-40F5-B2E4-DD5836012F8C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > What program is usually used to make an animated Gif for powerpoint?
>> > The
>> > file
>> > that I did out of ImageReady came out to be like 17 MEGS.
>> > What is Office FX? Is that the program that is best to use?
>> >
>> > "Austin Myers" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Are you saying the GIF is covering your entire background? If so you
>> >> are
>> >> going to need a very powerful machine, lots of RAM and a great video
>> >> card
>> >> to
>> >> both play the GIF and run PowerPoint.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Austin Myers
>> >> MS PowerPoint MVP Team
>> >>
>> >> PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "LisaH" <LisaH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:0D142BF9-0A97-4927-8BFE-ADDFFC5B8355@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > I would like to make an animated background to put into powerpoint.
>> >> > i
>> >> guess
>> >> > it only takes animated gifs. I know how to use ImageReady and Flash
>> >> > to
>> >> make
>> >> > an animation, but are those good programs to make animated gifs for
>> >> > a
>> >> > background? ImageReady worked best for me, but the animation played
>> >> choppy.
>> >> > Is there a way to rendor out specifically for Powerpoint? Is there a
>> >> specific
>> >> > program used to make animations specifically for PPT?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks!!
>> >> > wdsg2@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>


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