What is the best way to have animated background that allow text overlay.

[aarondd]

What is the best way to have animated background( programs, file format, file type) that allows text overlay with great resolution. I'm using this for church and I would like to have a background picture that animates like clouds moving in the background.

 

[Ute Simon]

What is the best way to have animated background( programs, file format,

file type) that allows text overlay with great resolution. I'm using this
for church and I would like to have a background picture that animates like
clouds moving in the background. <


You could use an animated GIF file, but file size can become quite big, if
you fill the whole screen. Or use Flash (SWF file) for a rectangle on one
side of the slide (not as a background, flash and video will always play on
top).

BUT: Consider, that a animated background reduces readability enourmously!
Use large animations for title slides with not much text. Prefer no or only
marginal animation for "normal" slides with much text.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Walter Donavan]

Let us not be so pessimistic. My church uses animated backgrounds on its
giant slides that it shows in its 3,500-seat auditorium. It certainly can be
done.

 

[Ute Simon]

Let us not be so pessimistic. My church uses animated backgrounds on its

giant slides that it shows in its 3,500-seat auditorium. It certainly can be
done.

Walter,

I didn't want to sound too pessimistic. It certainly CAN be done. Do you
know, how THEY do it? Would be interesting.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Dave]

Walter,

I didn't want to sound too pessimistic. It certainly CAN be done. Do you
know, how THEY do it? Would be interesting.

Kind regards,
Ute

If its a 3,500 seater, probably done with dual source into vision mixer
chroma keying the powerpoint background.

 

[Walter Donavan]

You could contact them at www.fbcnet.com and ask them. They have a zillion
email addresses there and I am sure someone could help you. Click on the
Contact Us link about halfway down the page on the left.