Did you know that you can create simple animations, really quickly and easily in PowerPoint? A great place to start if you are just beginning on the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings animation career path. The only downside to PowerPoint animations is the timing, Each slide can only be timed down to stay on the screen for 1 second or longer. While this is an issue if you are Peter Jackson, 1 or more seconds can sometimes be ideal if you are viewing and watching for detail.
While this small clip is not an ideal example, it will help to show you what is possible. Remember that the animation is in PowerPoint not initially designed for the web. I have then used Author Stream to upload and get the html code to embed in this blog. Author Stream as you can see is a freebie and comes with the wee blurb at the end. There are other online applications that upload PowerPoints, Author Stream is one of many that I use. Firstly I just grabbed about 5 photos of Trang launching her rocket. These were not taken with the idea of an animation in mind so are a little disjointed. However again I hope this will encourage you to have a go. HOWEVER all is possible.
Instructions on How to below the video
Here's how.
Put all your images you require / want for the animation into a new folder and know where you have saved it. Desktop or my pictures is a good place if you are trialing this animation process
Open PowerPoint
Format
Slide layout
choose Blank
Now go to
Insert
Picture
New Album.
Click on
Insert pictures from File or disk
Open the folder
Select all the images ( Ctrl A) so they are highlighted
Click Insert
WAIT a little, 30 secs or so. If you have lots of images eg 40 of the images are high resolution, they do take a short time to come in
Click on the top image
Click the create button.
Your images appear in a slide show on the left
The front slide will say Photo album by ...... however the name was that you used to log in.
You can edit the text
You can also rotate the images or delete images here also
Now go to Slideshow on the top menu
Scroll to Slide transition
Click the tick off On
mouse click
. Click into AutomaticallyafterWhile this small clip is not an ideal example, it will help to show you what is possible. Remember that the animation is in PowerPoint not initially designed for the web. I have then used Author Stream to upload and get the html code to embed in this blog. Author Stream as you can see is a freebie and comes with the wee blurb at the end. There are other online applications that upload PowerPoints, Author Stream is one of many that I use. Firstly I just grabbed about 5 photos of Trang launching her rocket. These were not taken with the idea of an animation in mind so are a little disjointed. However again I hope this will encourage you to have a go. HOWEVER all is possible.
Instructions on How to below the video
Here's how.
Put all your images you require / want for the animation into a new folder and know where you have saved it. Desktop or my pictures is a good place if you are trialing this animation process
Open PowerPoint
Format
Slide layout
choose Blank
Now go to
Insert
Picture
New Album.
Click on
Insert pictures from File or disk
Open the folder
Select all the images ( Ctrl A) so they are highlighted
Click Insert
WAIT a little, 30 secs or so. If you have lots of images eg 40 of the images are high resolution, they do take a short time to come in
Click on the top image
Click the create button.
Your images appear in a slide show on the left
The front slide will say Photo album by ...... however the name was that you used to log in.
You can edit the text
You can also rotate the images or delete images here also
Now go to Slideshow on the top menu
Scroll to Slide transition
Click the tick off On
mouse click
box and change time to 1 sec which is 00:01. Click Apply to all
Now play, Slideshow, on the top menu View show and admire. Think wow, move over Peter Jackson. The limitation is the 1 sec
delay
By the way: Did you know Peter Jackson is a Kiwi
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