Powerpoint 2003 ??? reguarding moving pictures

[Kickback]

This is what i am playing around with. My presentation will consist of
using one picture and saving that picture at various pixel sizes, starting
off at 32x32 and working my way up to, perhaps, 600x600. I plan on putting
the smallest pixel sized picture on the 3rd slide against a black
background, and every slide, there after, will increase in picture size,
until i reach the last slide having the largest picture on it. All slides
having the same black background. Once done, and played back, the image
will appear moving from the center of the background towards the center of
the foreground. My only dilemma is, i noticed the slide transition time
only goes down to 00:00.1 and that doesn't seem fast enough for the image
to have that nice smooth transition. On the other hand, if i take all
those images and make them into a GIF file using "Jasc Animation Shop,"
then insert the GIF file onto one slide, my problem has been solved.

Now my questions are:

Is there a way to get powerpoint to speed up faster during slide
transitions, without having to revert to some other program to accomplish
it and...

Two, am I right in doing what I did to overcome my problem or maybe you
have some other suggestions? Thank You

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Kickback,

Is there any reason why you are not just using the "zoom from center"
animation effect that is built into powerpoint?

You could just use the 600x600 pixel image then?

It would be a lot smoother than trying to 'fake' the effect

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Steve Rindsberg]

This is what i am playing around with. My presentation will consist of
using one picture and saving that picture at various pixel sizes, starting
off at 32x32 and working my way up to, perhaps, 600x600. I plan on putting
the smallest pixel sized picture on the 3rd slide against a black
background, and every slide, there after, will increase in picture size,
until i reach the last slide having the largest picture on it. All slides
having the same black background. Once done, and played back, the image
will appear moving from the center of the background towards the center of
the foreground. My only dilemma is, i noticed the slide transition time
only goes down to 00:00.1 and that doesn't seem fast enough for the image
to have that nice smooth transition. On the other hand, if i take all
those images and make them into a GIF file using "Jasc Animation Shop,"
then insert the GIF file onto one slide, my problem has been solved.

Now my questions are:

Is there a way to get powerpoint to speed up faster during slide
transitions, without having to revert to some other program to accomplish
it and...

Not using slide to slide transitions, no. It's not meant to do, in effect,
"cel" animation. But have you experimented with custom animations to do the
same thing? Looks pretty jerky in ppt2000 on my laptop but it's very nice in
2003 on a faster computer.

Two, am I right in doing what I did to overcome my problem or maybe you
have some other suggestions? Thank You

If the zoom or another animation doesn't get it for you, I think you're on the
right track.

 

[Kickback]

Not using slide to slide transitions, no. It's not meant to do, in
effect, "cel" animation. But have you experimented with custom
animations to do the same thing? Looks pretty jerky in ppt2000 on my
laptop but it's very nice in 2003 on a faster computer.


If the zoom or another animation doesn't get it for you, I think
you're on the right track.

Hi Steve and thanks for replying to my 2 questions. In responce to your
answers, I have used custom animations many times for entrance & exits &
plotting movements of text and pictures in general, but to take a picture,
that almost fills the screen, and shrink it down to almost the size of a
dot and have it zoom out to fill the screen, would surely degrade the image
by the time it gets anywhere close to it's original size. I have used the
zoom feature, to zoom a normal sized picture bigger, but that's about it.
Instead, I use a program called, "Compupic" and display the 800X800 image,
then use it's resize feature to shrink it down to 32x32 and save it. Then
I go back to the original 800x800 image again, and resize it down to 42x42
and save it under the same name as the first one but add a number 2 in the
filename so it doesn't over-write the first saved file and so on and so on
until i get all my frames up to 800x800. Then, i use Jasc's animation shop
to build the animated GIF file using all those frames. Then place the GIF
file on one slide of the powerpoint and it's done. Play the slideshow and
it shows my image coming from the far background of the horizon towards the
foreground, in a nice smooth pace. Now, i don't know of any feature in
powerpoint that can do the same thing that i just explained unless i am
missing something.

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

What I do...
Insert the picture a single time at the largest size you will want it. Give
it an entrance animation. Then give it a Grow/Shrink animation to start at
the same time as the entrance animation. Set the percentage for the grow
shrink to something tiny. Now, add successive Grow/Shrink animations to run
one right after the other with larger and larger percentages. The last one
should be at 100%. It runs very smoothly and doesn't seem to degrade the
picture. Try it and post back with your results....

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Steve and thanks for replying to my 2 questions. In responce to your
answers, I have used custom animations many times for entrance & exits &
plotting movements of text and pictures in general, but to take a picture,
that almost fills the screen, and shrink it down to almost the size of a
dot and have it zoom out to fill the screen, would surely degrade the image
by the time it gets anywhere close to it's original size.

Probably not. If the image is sized correctly for the size of the screen, it
should look fine. Changing its size in PPT doesn't change the image, just the
view of that image on screen at any moment.

I have used the

zoom feature, to zoom a normal sized picture bigger, but that's about it.
Instead, I use a program called, "Compupic" and display the 800X800 image,
then use it's resize feature to shrink it down to 32x32 and save it.

Compupic or other programs may do a better job of resamping a picture to a
smaller size than PPT does, but either way, you're degrading the quality of the
image.

If you've tested and found it to produce a better image this way AND that the
difference is noticeable, then I'd say you've got a good argument for not using
PPT's zoom. Otherwise, I'd suggest that you at least try it.

I go back to the original 800x800 image again, and resize it down to 42x42
and save it under the same name as the first one but add a number 2 in the
filename so it doesn't over-write the first saved file and so on and so on
until i get all my frames up to 800x800. Then, i use Jasc's animation shop
to build the animated GIF file using all those frames. Then place the GIF
file on one slide of the powerpoint and it's done. Play the slideshow and
it shows my image coming from the far background of the horizon towards the
foreground, in a nice smooth pace. Now, i don't know of any feature in
powerpoint that can do the same thing that i just explained unless i am
missing something.

So the problem isn't so much the image as that PPT's built-in effects can't do
precisely what you're after ... if that's the case, then I'd guess that doing
it as a GIF animation is as good a way of beating the system as any.

 

[Kickback]

What I do...
Insert the picture a single time at the largest size you will want it.
Give it an entrance animation. Then give it a Grow/Shrink animation to
start at the same time as the entrance animation. Set the percentage
for the grow shrink to something tiny. Now, add successive Grow/Shrink
animations to run one right after the other with larger and larger
percentages. The last one should be at 100%. It runs very smoothly and
doesn't seem to degrade the picture. Try it and post back with your
results....

Hi Kathy,

In responce to your answer to my question...
I have played with the grow/shrink feature and still puzzled as to how to
get it to do what i want. I see that the movement is quite smooth. In
fact, smoother than I could accomplish doing it my way. I would like to
use this feature but here's the problem I run into. If you can picture this
in your mind. My slide is all black, my picture of a cartoon character is
on a black background as well, so when i insert it onto my slide and have
it move, it looks like just the character is moving and nothing else. Now
that's just the preliminary. So far so good. The cartoon Character just
about fills the screen too and is centered on the slide. Now I want that
cartoon character to first appear on the slide, at let's say 5% size, which
would make it appear like it's starting from the far middle of the horizon,
then have it move towards the viewer until it gets to it's 100% size. When
i go to use the grow/shrink animation, it starts it off at 100% and shrinks
it down to 5% which makes the character appear to be going backwards
instead of forwards. Could you or anyone else, give me an example of how
to make this work the way i want it too? Maybe start me off with a good
example so i can see exactly what you mean. Sometimes it takes a good
example for the lightbulb to go off in my head...hehehe Thanks