Today at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST, The Presentation Guild is hosting a Free Webinar with a Microsoft Program Manager demonstrating a new PowerPoint Zoom tool – with Troy Chollar from TLC Creative Services as the moderator/host for this live demo. Hope you can join everyone!
Register and get details here.
Or, view the webinar recording here.
-Troy @ TLC
The Presentation Guild is hosting a FREE webinar next week, and everyone is invited! Derek Johnson, a Microsoft Principal Manager, is the presenter, and TLC Creative’s Troy Chollar is the moderator. Register for the event and get an advanced live demonstration of the new PowerPoint Zoom tool.
The webinar is August 16 at 2:00-3:00 pm EST. It is free and open to everyone. Get details and register here. View the recorded webinar here.
Check back this Friday for a quick video demo of one Zoom feature by TLC.
– Troy @ TLC
Using auto advance for transition is easy, but calculating when a video will end in order to add in the correct auto advance timing is tedious.
However, it turns out that we do not need to actually figure out how long a video is because PowerPoint cannot use the auto transition feature to override a video that is playing and advance, even if we want to (the solution is to trim the video to the shorter duration or manually advance the slide).
Slide has video, presenter wants presentation to automatically go to next slide when video is done – easy.
On video slide, set to auto advance after 2 seconds. This assumes the video is the only animation and it is going to start playing automatically.
PowerPoint will go to the video slide, then the video will start playing and trigger to auto advance to next slide after 2 seconds, but it cannot do so until the video is done playing, so it waits for the video to finish. When the video play animation is done, the slide automatically advances to the next slide! We use this feature to help us easily setup what could be a complex request.
See the video example below:
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– Amber @ TLC
We let the TLC Creative Presentation Design Team loose to experiment with PowerPoint 2016’s new Morph transition/animation – the results are fun, great and inspirational!
Here is our design team’s Morph ideas compiled and output as a video.
– The Design Team @ TLC
We did an internal project to have a visual sample for client conversations about slide transition looks. The video, developed and exported from PowerPoint 2013, shows every transition – and every transition option in PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2013.
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– Troy @ TLC
PPT 2013 has lots of subtle updates and additions. One great addition is a new slide transition – Page Curl.
The transition does exactly what its name implies, it visually mimics a book page being turned.
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There are 4 options: 2 mimic a single large page turning and 2 mimic an open book and one half turning over the other half.
In the Public Beta of PowerPoint 2013, one additional transition is in the options – Random. This transition option disappeared in PPT 2007, so it is not really new.
I am guessing (hoping) more exciting options will be in the full release (time will tell).
– Troy @ TLC
Indezine.com has an interview with fellow PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw that talks about using the new PPT 2010 Dynamic Content transitions to solve an animation request – And I am mentioned in the article for offering suggestions on how to use the new transitions.
See the interview write up here.
– Troy @ TLC
You have a great opening movie for your presentation. But at the end of the movie the slide shows black (last frame of movie) until you advance to the next slide. This is the last thing you want to think about as you prepare to present.
The solution is fairly easy; it is just not a movie option so you may be looking in the wrong place.
Here is my sample slide with the opening movie.
Select the movie and roll over the playback bar (see Aug. 6 post) to see how long the movie is. On my sample slide the movie is 00:08.12 seconds long.
Go to the TRANSITIONS tab.
Add a time that is shorter than the movie to the AFTER box (I used 3 seconds)
That’s it. To automatically advance to next slide after the movie plays the slide transition just needs to be a shorter time than video. In the sample I set the automatic slide advance to 00:03:00 seconds, but the video is 00:08.12 seconds. The slide will not advance until the video is done (even though it is longer than 3 seocnds).
– Troy @ TLC
Transitions also benefit from #1 – Performance. In my pre-beta version there are a number of new transitions that are really exciting!
– Pan (my new animation favorite!)
– Gallery
– Flip
– Ripple
– And the full application will have more new transitions than just these!
Video is converted to low-res .gif “movie”. Note on the PAN transitions the background stays in place while the content moves/transitions!
Plus the legacy transitions also get some fantastic updating. As example the WIPE, CLOCK, RANDOM BARS, transitions leads with a soft gradient edge. The DISSOLVE and CHECKERBOARD transitions are screens full of soft edged squares (that I might use again after ignoring since 2004).
The interface has been updated too. First, Transtions now have their own tab (no longer shared with Animations).
Almost all of the adjustments are controlled directly in the Ribbon (vs. opening a separate dialog):
We now have precise control over animation duration, ranging from a full minute:
To a very quick 1/25th of a second:
The updated interface also limits the list of transitions by adding any transition options in the new EFFECT OPTIONS menu. Here I have WIPE selected and I can choose the direction from the drop down menu.
Just another GREAT feature that adds new features and improves the existing.
– Troy @ TLC
With the background elements developed in Photoshop and saved out as .jpg images the rest of the work happens in PowerPoint. Most of the work in setting up a template happens on the Master Slides. So the first thing for me is to set the background of each slide layout with the background artwork.
The Blue Lens template has a Content slide and a Title slide.
Next is to position the text boxes to fit the background, set the font size-color-line spacing and custom bullets:
I also set default slide transitions for each slide layout (in this case both use a FADE SMOOTHLY), format the header/footer text boxes, etc.
One of the things I think a lot of people overlook is customizing the color scheme. I always include a sample chart that shows all of the default colors I have setup.
Now everything is ready to build a slide show!
– Troy @ TLC