Animation Problems

[Joe Cofone]

Due to the number of photos in my PP presentation, the
file is quite large at 50+Mb. I running XP with 512 Mb of
RAM. Some of the individual slides contain a significant
amount of photos, with the largest containing about 18
photos. When I run the show I have noticed a degradation
on some of the animation effects such as fade in or out,
that causes the effect to be choppy at times. It doesn't
seem to happen when I just preview the slide, only when I
run the show. Can anyone offer any advice on how I might
improve the "smoothness" and overall quality of the
animation effects while running the show. Thanks

 

[Echo S]

I could've sworn I've seen this same question already today.

I'd first make sure your photos aren't overscanned.
See http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

Be sure to check the link to TAJ Simmons's tutorial.

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

In addition, defrag your hard disk and try to minimize the number of
programs loaded in the background (at startup).


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I could've sworn I've seen this same question already today.

I'd first make sure your photos aren't overscanned.
See http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

Be sure to check the link to TAJ Simmons's tutorial.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]

Due to the number of photos in my PP presentation, the
file is quite large at 50+Mb. I running XP with 512 Mb of
RAM. Some of the individual slides contain a significant
amount of photos, with the largest containing about 18
photos. When I run the show I have noticed a degradation
on some of the animation effects such as fade in or out,
that causes the effect to be choppy at times. It doesn't
seem to happen when I just preview the slide, only when I
run the show. Can anyone offer any advice on how I might
improve the "smoothness" and overall quality of the
animation effects while running the show. Thanks

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Make sure 'Hardware Acceleration' is turned on (SLIDE SHOW >> SET UP SHOW >>
check box near bottom).

Additionally, the type of graphics card and the amount of dedicated RAM it
has is as important as your computers system RAM. For a file this size with
lots of animations a computer should have at least 64megs of dedicated Video
RAM (not a shared memory system).

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Troy Chollar
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