Speed of Powerpoint fades from Slide-to-slide

[Guest]

Does any one know of a way to slow down the fade from one slide to the next.
Microsoft's options include "slow" which is infact too fast for my needs -
and only in "custom Animations" on a single slide can I find a slow fade from
one image to another. I would rather do it from slide to slide - so if there
is an add-in for doing a slower fade, I will be grateful to know about it.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

You could use the technique from this tutorial to have more control of the
slide transitions:

http://www.pptmagic.com/articles/3Dtransitions.htm

 

[villem teder]

Mustache:

What version of ppt? I have been complaining about this for years. If
what you are after is "fade-through-black" but with control of the
fade times, it can now be done fairly easily, and am suggesting to my
clients they can finally upgrade from PPT3. In my case, the content is
all text, but images should also work.

In PPT2007, you create master layouts that have the entrance and exit
animation times needed. I'm not sure if multiple-masters in PPT2003
works in similar ways, haven't tried it.

The secret to making this work, (PPT2003 and 2007) when the animations
are on manual clicks, is an add-in available here:

http://officeone.mvps.org/anims/anims.html

Aside from adding a number of animations, it also has a feature to
allow auto-transitions with manually-clicked animations. The only
limiting thing is, is that the add-in needs to be on the computer
showing the presentation.

(Otherwise, it would be nice to have transition control like in
Keynote, anywhere from 0 to 60 seconds.)

Regards,

Villem Teder
Toronto

 

[Guest]

My vote is for Glenna's way! Takes a little effort but you can get a great
cross fade transition. I've lost count of the "how do you do that?" questions

 

[villem teder]

Ah yes, the definition of "fade". To my ancient mind a fade applies to
a single thing. A crossfade or dissolve is two things, each fading.
Unfortunately, MS long ago called that pixely thing a dissolve, and
when they finally added a real dissolve, they didn't get rid of the
old one or rename it, but called it fade smoothly. Argh. (And then
there was a presentation program I was evaluating years ago that
called all transitions fades, but did not offer a fade proper!)

I agree that for the occasional slow crossfade, Glenna's method is the
way. However, if there were a buch of images that needed to crossfade
in sequence, I would put them all on the same slide and give each one
an exit animation fade of however long is desired. They can be
triggered manually, or timed. While I have played with this for a
group of images, I haven't actually tried it in a show. I suspect that
I would have to use duplicates of the first and last image to get into
and out of the crossfade sequence.

If it is just a sequence of images, I suspect a slide show program
would be easier.

Regards,

Villem