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Canva Presentation Animation Explained

Canva adds notices that if the account is upgraded to a “Pro” account, animation features are added. But the animation is not what you expect. Yes, the content on each slide has entrance effects applied. No, you cannot control the animation effects in any granularity. 

When logged in to your Canva account and have a presentation open, in the top right of the editable deck, there is a drop down button with ANIMATION as an option.

There are seven animation options; Fade, Pan, Block, Rise, Breathe, Slide, Instant. The critical thing to understand is the animation style chosen applies to EVERY object on EVERY slide. There is no granular control over what objects animate (everything does) and no selecting different animation styles, or no animation, for specific slides. There is also no customization of the animation duration/speed or ability to add on-click animations to elements on a slide. 

The best way I can describe Canva’s presentation animation is it is a combination transition effect that applies an auto entrance to all elements on a slide.

The other critical item to understand about Canva’s presentation animation is an animated presentation is only available when exported as a .mp4 (or .gif). If an edit is made to the presentation, it needs to be exported again to add the animation.

In exporting our sample presentation to view the various animation styling we found a bug that altered the content of our bar chart (if this was PowerPoint I would submit a bug report to the Dev Team). The axis in the presentation itself looks correct but when exported as an mp4 the X axis label text becomes stacked (leaving the data to be interpreted as wrong).

Here is the demo presentation used for testing animation:

FADE Animation

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BLOCK Animation

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RISE Animation

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Troy @ TLC

 

 

By |2019-10-28T10:09:50-07:00June 28th, 2019|Software/Add-Ins|

Slide Design Using Images and Illustrations

Just a quick slide from a recent project that I thought was pretty cool.

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Throughout this presentation, we used a layered visual styling of photo images as the base and animated vector illustrations that interacted with the photo. Rather than list the 4-5 talking points about CO2 emissions from vehicles, we visually represented vehicles with a huge tail pipe. Then, to visually support the talking points, the CO2 icon was introduced, followed by the gasoline icon, which supported the talking point about gasoline powered engines with another vector overlay (the story there was how much better gasoline has become over the decades, in terms of CO2 emissions, but that it still creates them).

Overall, the slide design using images and illustrations allowed for a presentation that was visually creative with a unique style and a happy presenter.

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-10-10T10:55:47-07:00October 12th, 2016|Portfolio|

Use a PDF for a Slide Show

A PDF of slides, or any document if in the correct aspect ratio, can be used for presentation slides. I am using Adobe Acrobat, but most PDF viewing apps have the same capability.

Here is my sample 16×9 presentation of 4 slides exported as a PDF, now open in Acrobat.

PDFView_4

I have selected the first page vs. the Organize/Grid view.

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Go to VIEW > FULL SCREEN MODE, or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+L

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The Acrobat tool bars disappear and the slide displays full screen. Using the arrow keys or Page Up/Down keys, you can go through the pages just like a presentation.

PDFView_3

Notes:

  • No animation
  • No slide transitions
  • No video or audio (There are ways to add these, but not covered in this tutorial, and not part of PowerPoint’s PDF export)
  • Cannot be added to a master slide deck of all presenter slides (This is a separate file that just look like slides)
  • No presenter view (Duplicate display is recommended vs. extended desktop)

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:12:27-07:00May 23rd, 2016|Software/Add-Ins, Tutorial|

Can I Use Google Fonts?

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PowerPoint and Google Fonts:

  • Professional fonts that display great in presentation apps (PowerPoint, Keynote, Adobe apps, etc.).
  • The ENTIRE library is FREE!
  • Primarily for web use and designed to dynamically load when a website or web-connected app uses them (so they do not need to be installed on a device to be used. Unfortunately both PowerPoint and Keynote are not able to leverage the web-based dynamic use of Google Fonts).
  • Can be downloaded as actual font files, installed on any computer, and both PowerPoint and Keynote can use them.
  • A few considerations about using locally installed Google Fonts in PowerPoint and Keynote:
    • get previous post details.

Details about Google Fonts

  • Google describes their font collection as “hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.”
  • They have 708 font “families” (a Family is one typeface with several styles).
  • Find them here.
  • The online Google Fonts viewer has some great features, that can be used on any device. All fonts are displayed with a sample sentence that you can change to be any test. There are also options to see fonts used in a sample paragraph, a single word or very large in poster size text (good example for presentation callouts).
  • The ENTIRE library can be downloaded!
    • Use the down arrow icon in upper right of webpage to download Google Fonts to your computer.
    • Optionally, fonts.com has the SkyFonts app which works with Google Fonts and works similar to the Adobe Typekit. It will sync selected fonts to any computer that has the SkyFonts app installed. Go to it here.
    • Download the library at GitHub here.

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So, should Google Fonts be a part of your workflow?

Adding Google Fonts to your presentations is a good option, assuming you are prepared for managing Custom Fonts in a presentation and assuring everyone has knowledge of how to install custom fonts on a computer, has web access to get the font to install, and is prepared for things not displaying as designed if not installed. The other consideration is, do you need another font option? With our internal library of thousands of custom fonts, and the addition of Adobe Typekit providing its thousands of fonts to our design options, too many options can be more to manage and may provide more design options that are not really needed. But, Google Fonts is a great resource every presentation designer has available if needed.

-Troy @ TLC

 

 

By |2016-08-10T08:17:06-07:00May 6th, 2016|Resource/Misc, Tutorial|

How Do You Proof a Presentation…?

Developing a great presentation involves a lot of communication between designer and presenter. There are lots of options for supplying a proof to a client and receiving feedback and direction on content – some proofing rounds and processes are good, some hinder.

proof approved

On The Presentation Podcast, a recent episode was all about design studios sending proofs of presentations from clients, listen to it here.

Here is a quick overview of the 4 most common options for providing a proof:

  • PDFs are easy to create directly from PowerPoint, are easy to email, are mobile device friendly and have a great built-in commenting function. But they are static, so transitions, animation and video are not seen.
  • Video is also easy to export directly from PowerPoint and show all animations, transitions, custom fonts, etc. The downside is that the files can be large and there is not an easy way to provide feedback/comments.
  • Sending an editable PowerPoint file is the easiest option. The biggest concern is version control (who is working and minor items like custom fonts, client changes not being caught [for design, file size, etc.]) and ensuring what was designed is what is being seen.
  • Co-authoring and collaboration, which can be the built-in Office 2016 feature or an external program, have improved to the point of being a valid solution. But I find the most common issue is scheduling – designer and client having same time available to “meet” can be difficult.

The next few posts are going to demo some of the online proofing tools TLC Creative has been using.

-Troy @ TLC

 

By |2016-08-10T08:23:07-07:00April 18th, 2016|Resource/Misc|

Presentations that Curve

PowerPoint does not have anything to do with the physical curve of the presentation. Instead, the curve is done by all the great AV crews that we have the opportunity to work with. The 16×9 presentations are nicely designed, but have no special setup.

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The Ultrawide background is a custom PowerPoint template setup to match the projection pixel count with images and content strategically designed so as not to interfere with standard 16×9 slides and IMAG areas. TLC Creative Services plans with production companies in advance to ensure all layers are coordinated. These are the presentation design projects that our team really enjoys!

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– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:44:35-07:00January 20th, 2016|Portfolio, PowerPoint|
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