These are slides from a recent presentation and the video below is the animated version of the 4 slides:
With some creative layout and PowerPoint animation, the presenter used this animated sequence to convey the message of their expanded Social Media presence and how it has a global reach (all animated on clicks):
– Troy @ TLC
Video in presentations has been something I have used for many years. PowerPoint has vastly improved its video features, but currently, and in all legacy versions, when a video is inserted, the default animation settings is a Trigger animation, which is something I am constantly disappointed by.
A trigger animation is “triggered” one of two ways, direct interaction (ie. move mouse on screen and click on the programmed item) or secondary action from a programmed animation (ie. when one item is animated, it activates the trigger animation).
So, when a video is inserted onto a slide and then present, the video will not play until you move the mouse cursor on the slide and click on the video. Obviously, for majority of my meetings, the goal is to hide PowerPoint (and hide any software) to create a seamless environment where things “just happen.” Seeing a mouse move across a screen is a bad thing.
Up next is a step-by-step tutorial on changing the video play animation settings to eliminate the need to see a cursor on the presentation screen.
– Troy @ TLC
This month is focused on animation. TLC does a number of presentations each year developed for clients in Prezi. The presentation design and storyboarding need to be approached a bit different than PowerPoint. One of the primary draws of using Prezi is its unique animation (motion). This is an internally developed sample Prezi presentation:
[prezi url=”https://prezi.com/pk62jnw-q9ev/” width=”550″ height=”400″ zoom_freely=”N” ]
– Troy @ TLC
This is one animation section of a large show presentation. The goal was to visually recreate a smartphone chat look made up of user feedback on recent hotel stays, showing the power of Social Media today to influence others, friends and strangers alike. A fairly easy animation to develop in After Effects, Flash, and many other applications. Not as easy in PowerPoint’s animation, but the end result turned out great:
[youtube src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/NjrODuPxkmo?rel=0″]
The slide development required first getting the visual elements approved. Then, developing the animation and having it approved. The animation is deceptively simple with a few motion paths on each slide. But it also required exact pixel accurate placement of each visual for seamless slide-to-slide animation and careful attention to the layer order of the elements.
– Troy @ TLC
Here is a collection of slides from a presentation makeover project that highlight some of our “simple” animation that is subtle enough to work in a very corporate environment.
Video above is these slides. Note the first animation uses slide transitions for the animation effect and making it easy for the presenter to review the presentation on printouts and “see” the animations.
– Troy @ TLC
TLC Creative Services developed all of the speaker support presentations for the Lexus annual dealer meeting this year. Working from provided scripts, we crafted the speaker support for this great meeting (and we also were on showsite for rehearsals and to run the live meeting). Here is one animated slide:
[youtube src=”https://youtube.com/embed/9Y4cuXBfgXU?rel=0″]
– Troy @ TLC
Here is an amazing video showing a 1000 years of border history in Europe.
[original video no longer available from source]
Yes, you could fairly easily develop this video in PowerPoint. It would be what we internally call a “Flip Book” animation. One static slide per border change. Then set all slides to auto transition (with the CUT transition) and .01 to .05 seconds for the AFTER setting. When played, it will give the same effect as the above video – although sourcing the data and customizing the country shapes to each border would be a very large project! The video creation would be a simple as FILE>>EXPORT>>CREATE A VIDEO.
Here is a quick video I developed in PowerPoint using the Flip Book animation styling with a vector map of the United States (which was missing in the above video) and exported as a video.
[youtube src=”https://youtube.com/embed/Fpqd3v9gl7A?rel=0″]
57 slides, no animation, auto transitions, exported as video.
– Troy @ TLC
This is a quick (and great!) update to last week’s post “Stop PowerPoint from Getting the Animation Jitters!“
The incredibly talented coder, Chirag, quickly put together (in his words) “a very simple and small utility… that toggles the (regedit) setting when you execute it. When it states that sprite clipping is disabled, you get smooth animations. Ensure that PowerPoint is not running when you execute this utility.”
I have not tested, partly because I have manually updated all computers at TLC with the registry update. Download the free utility – https://www.officeoneonline.com/download/SpriteClipping.exe (61KB).
– Troy @ TLC
Long scrolling animations worked great back in PPT 2003. But with the new .xml format (.pptx) came a new render engine for animations and it caused these same animations to stutter and “jitter” as they played.
You can fix these with a registry edit (Note: the registry controls the computer and in general mistakes in here can be very bad).
First, download this test file and run (download here, 3.7MB). Take note of how smooth, or jittery, the text animation is.
Close PowerPoint.
To update a computers PowerPoint settings:
1. Start >> search bar “regedit”
2. Go to Hkey Current User>>Software>>Microsoft>>Office>>15.0>>PowerPoint>>Options
– Note: This is the path for PPT 2013. For PPT 2010, it will be “12.0” vs. 15.0.
3. In the right section, right-click and select NEW >> DWORD (32-BIT) VALUE
4. Name it “DisableSpriteClipping”
5. Find the new entry and right-click and select MODIFY
6. In the VALUE DATA box, enter “1” (BASE can be Hex or Dec) and click OK
Start PPT and run the test file again. Take note of how smooth, or jittery, the text animation is.
Many thanks to Steve Rindsberg of PPTools for making me aware of Microsoft’s Chris Maloney’s shared bit of coding that works wonders for anyone fearful of animation jitters!
– Troy @ TLC
The free 4th of July PowerPoint template featured animated fireworks. You can download a slide with just the animated (including sound FX) fireworks here and copy them into an presentation!
[youtube src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/fjo0axZ7J7M?rel=0″]
– Troy @ TLC
