Animation: replacing effects that slow performance

[Isis]

Power Point 2003
When I send my presentations on CD, I want them to play well, even if
receiver has a less powerful PC than mine. In Power Point Tips advice says
that "animations that include fading, rotating, or scaling" slow performance.
What comparable effects can I use instead? I am particularly interested in
keeping the movement from picture to picture smooth, like the way they look
with "fade". Thank you.

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Is the presentation on the CD being viewed using the PPT viewer (also
running from the CD)?
- First running from a CD will be slower performance, especially depending
on the speed of the CD drive.
- If using the PPT Viewer, it will playback all animations and effects, but
it does so without any hardware acceleration. This can have a huge impact on
animation playback vs. running in the full program which takes advantage of
hardware acceleration.
- I have not done an effect by effect comparison. But before a PPT Viewer
based project is completed I run the presentation through the viewer and
modify any animations that it really chokes on. Sort of trial-and-error, but
in the controlled enviroment of my office...

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
troy at tlc creative dot com
www dot tlccreative dot com
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[Isis]

Thank you for posting, Troy.
The reason I was seeking effects that would play easily was to try to
achieve some consistancy when the presentation is played on a variety of
computers. Silly me, no matter how simple the animation - it will STILL play
differently from CD, or on other systems. So, rather than limit what effects
I use, I looked in other directions for making the slide show run exactly the
way it is intended. Elsewhere on this billboard, I found that I can transform
a Power Point slide show into a DVD that will play on any DVD player. Thus,
the visual effects - and even the music cues - in my presentations can play
as intended.

 

[Sonia]

But, my recommendation is that you don't invest any money in that solution until
you've created a test DVD with a trial version of whatever software you choose.
I think that you might find the results disappointing, especially if screen
resolution and sharpness and true color representation are important to you. TV
technology is no match for what you see on a computer monitor.

An inexpensive test, if your video card is capable, is to connect an S-Video
cable to your S-Video Out port on the video card to the S-Video In connection on
the TV. That will give you an idea of what the presentation will look like when
converted to video and burned to a DVD.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com