Re: Timing of animated GIFs

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So, here's what I did. The last frame of my GIF was set to 10 seconds, so
that I could advance the PowerPoint slide with the last part of the GIF
showing. Originally, that last piece did in fact stay showing for the
remainder of the slide, suggesting that the timing on the first frame was
being bypassed (as it was starting too early), but the other frames were
fine. So, I added a duplicate frame to the front of the GIF, and set it for
0.1 seconds, and decreased the original first frame (that is now the second
frame) to 6.4 seconds so that between the two frames, it would still be the
same total time. And, voila! It worked! It can still bypass the first
frame, but since the second frame now holds the delay time, it looks fine on
the screen while playing.

Don't know if this will help anyone in the future, but it seems like a
decent work around.

Thanks for all your help! It was your suggestion of that website that gave
me this idea.



"Echo S" wrote:

But I belatedly noticed you're both using 2003. Cool. Hope you got it worked
out.

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"Echo S" <msnewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Depends on the version of PowerPoint, John.

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"John Wilson" <john AT technologytrish.co DOT uk> wrote in message
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Hi Heather

As Echo says ppt is not good with ani Gifs but in 2003 I can get a 6.5
second delay to work OK with an image ready Gif.
If you send me your Gif I'll try it out.

For what its worth for me ....
Loop forever > does just that (after the delay each time)
Loop once doesn't animate at all
Loop twice > loops once!! (delay still works)
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"Heather" wrote:

Background:
I made my own animated GIF from Adobe PhotoShop and ImageReady. This is
a
relatively new skill for me, but my animations work fine with other
applications. I set the image to start the animation at 6.5 seconds so
it
would coordinate with the overall timing of the slide. I did set it for
only
one animation, not on a loop, and that part is going fine. I am using
PowerPoint 2003.
Problem:
The GIF starts to animate as soon as it hits the screen, and does not
wait
the designateed 6.5 seconds. Ideas?





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