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Using Flash Animations in Powerpoint: Cathleen Belleville A Bit Better Corporation

This document discusses using Flash animations in PowerPoint presentations. It explains that Flash is a vector-based animation tool that exports to formats like GIF, QuickTime, and Shockwave. Using Flash allows for smaller file sizes and precise animation controls. The document provides steps for adding Shockwave animations to PowerPoint and notes issues like requiring the Flash plugin and animations playing on the top layer.

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Using Flash Animations in Powerpoint: Cathleen Belleville A Bit Better Corporation

This document discusses using Flash animations in PowerPoint presentations. It explains that Flash is a vector-based animation tool that exports to formats like GIF, QuickTime, and Shockwave. Using Flash allows for smaller file sizes and precise animation controls. The document provides steps for adding Shockwave animations to PowerPoint and notes issues like requiring the Flash plugin and animations playing on the top layer.

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Using Flash Animations

In PowerPoint
Note:
This presentation
requires the Flash 4
cathleen belleville viewer be installed
on your system.
a bit better corporation
Available as a free
www.bitbetter.com download from:
www.macromedia.com
What the Heck is Flash?
vector based animation product from Macromedia
native file format is Flash
exports movies to animated gif, quicktime, avi in
bitmapped format
exports movies to shockwave (swf) in vector
format, excellent compression with antialiasing
hard to learn, but not as bad as Director
good on-line tutorial & good help
street price: $280 new/$120 upgrade
mac and windows versions, shared file format
Why use Flash & Shockwave?
Vector-based animation: looks good at any
size
much smaller files than gifs
powerpoint loops all animated gifs
very precise controls, including
buttons, starts & stops
gif files aliased to specific
background color--easy to
change in flash
Adding Shockwave Animation
view/toolbars/visual basic
click on control toolbox button (hammer & wrench)
click on more controls button (hammer & wrench)
drag out placeholder for animation
right-click to bring up properties of animation:
– movie: enter full path: c:\windows\desktop\foo.swf
– height: enter in pixels
– width: enter in pixels
– embed movie: true if you want movie to stay with pres.
– loop: set to true or false, true is default
Problems & Issues
must have flash 4 player installed
– free download from www.macromedia.com
powerpoint plays all flash animations on top layer
– no full page animations if you want text too!
important to set size in vba object properties
resizing can cause strange things to happen, or not!
slides with swf files display as all black when
saved to web
click “true” to embed movie setting if you want the
animations to travel with the presentation
Problems & Issues, cont.
files placed on master will play continuously
from slide to slide
powerpoint can’t recognize any mouse clicks
made while mouse is on top of flash object
looped files do no reset themselves back to
frame one
workaround:
• in flash, set movie as not looping
• at last frame, insert an action that goes to frame 2
• in powerpoint, set loop to false
thank you

cathy belleville & the


screenbeans
a bit better corporation
www.bitbetter.com

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