How do I animate large images in Powerpoint

[Guest]

I wish to 'scroll' a large image across in Powerpoint. I have used '03 and
'07 Beta to try this without any luck....

If I have an image of say, 4000 x 768 - and try and motion path it to the
left, after only one or two screen widths - the image stops and I just get
the slide background - but there is more image to scroll - is this some
inherant limitation of Powerpoint and/or is there any workaround?

 

[Guest]

http://billdilworth.mvps.org/large_scale_image_scrolling.htm

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[Glen Millar]

Doug,

Ouch. It might be the one I fell over in San Diego. (Not that the location
matters, because if it did you could try somewhere else on the planet to get
it to work).

Anyway, seems there is some sort of problem with how big an image can be. It
looks fine on the slide but disappears when you animate. You need tow
images, one cropped in half from the right, and another cropped in half from
the left. Put them side by side and then animate. Does this help with your
problem?

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Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
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glen at pptworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, or
anything else relevant

 

[LVTravel]

Another workaround would be to create a WMV file in PhotoStory 3 with the
proper panning and then import the movie into PPT and have it show in the
proper screen.

 

[Guest]

Well - the VBA option isn't ideal as I can't control the speed very well.

I've tried the split-and-animate-together option, and with that you have to
try and sync up the motion of the second part to tag itself onto the end of
the first part - you can't park it on the end to start with or it sits
outside the renderable area and thus behaves as if it were one large image

I've managed to get something reasonable results by splitting into 1024x768
chunks and sliding each one in and out in turn, and they just about work, but
you can get seams between them.

The WMV option is always an option but 1024 x 768 movies are not small
things, not really top quality in the sort of format that's going to play -
and not too reliable really.

I was hoping that I'd just missed something - but sadly it doesn't look like
I have....I'll have to rethink things a little.

Doug

 

[Ute Simon]

If it needs not to be automatic movement, you could use a webbrowser element
on your slide to display the image. And use its scrollbars to manually move
the image.

Best regards,
Ute