Image Ready makes GIF animations. Those are designed for the web. I don’t know that the latest version of PowerPoint can play animated gifs; I highly doubt it.
If you want to create an animation for a presentation, you may be better off creating it in Flash. That allows you to create an Executable – the animation can be self contained as an EXE file, which CAN be placed in a powerpoint, and then you can click on it to run it within PP, and continue on your slideshow.
Depending on the nature of the animation/presentation, you might look into Camtasia Studio by TechSmith – that allows you to record what’s happening on your computer (like when you’re teaching someone how to use a prograom), and it creates videos that you can also play whithin Powerpoint.
The point is, the feature of powerpoint that you’ll want to concentrate on is the fact that you can run programs and various multi-media from within it, but I don’t THINK a gif animation will play. The reason is, when you want multi-media or a program to play, you create a button in your slideshow that does an OLE call to the external animation. You can say "when I click this button, play this video", and provided you have the ability to play that video on your computer in the first place, PP will allow it to run by "calling" it, and then when it’s finished, continue the slideshow.
Peace,
Tony
The latest 3 versions of PowerPoint do play animated GIF’s imported using Insert > Picture > From File…
But, as Tony rightly alludes a series of GIF frames cannot be "called."
You can make it look "called" by setting a duplicate slide (with the GIF added), to advance on mouse click.
Thanks John. I stand corrected. That’s the price of being in Win98 I guess <hanging head>.
Awww Tony…I’ll be sure and drink enough to ease your pain…least I can do.
<smile> Thanks for thinking of me John.
Thank you guys, I appreciate your help. Tony, I believe Flash can not produce animation for PowerPoint. Thank you for your time.
Armando
You can always create a Flash Projector file. This is a file that will run independantly of any external software – it’s an exe and distributable. That way, you can tell your button to run "MyFlashMovie.exe".
Peace,
Tony
YrbkMgr:
How do I do a Flash Projector file.
If you have Flash, you can do it from within Flash from the File menu, or when you double click on the SWF and flash plays on your desktop, you can create a projector from the file menu in the applet.
Peace,
Tony
