[Solved] GIF animations exported to PowerPoint
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:25 pm
HI
I have made a large number of presentations both (before) in PowerPoint and now in Impress. I would regard myself as an experienced user.
The main use i have for presentations these days is to present songs to our Ukulele group to sing along with.
(1) I have been using .gif animations to liven up my slides. What i find a bit strange is that the gif files that have transparent backgrounds behave perfectly on the editor screen, but show a white background on the actual presentations - and some flicker and misbehave - surely this should show up in the editor screen? I only use very small ones as the big ones freeze impress for 10 minutes at a time!
(2) The reason I have been using .gif images is that when i export the Impress file to one of the .ppt formats (the Ukulele laptop that drives the projector runs Windows) (a) the image animations do not work (b) the media links do not work. If I have time I can sometimes re-make the links directly in PowerPoint but that is not the point.
(3) The "songbooks" we work from are collections of PDF or .DOCX documents, one for each song, each page as long as the song. It is possible in PowerPoint to import a page of that size, put the top at the top of the screen and then scroll it up slowly to the bottom of the document, so the audience can use it a bit like a Karaoke to sing and play along with. However in Libre Office the size of the working area is not big enough to accommodate a long document in the same way. Because of the issues in (2) I do not break the document into two scrolling halves because the conversion loses it, instead I break the document over two pages. I have tried making gif files and MP4s but for the reasons outlined above this is not practical as they become very big. So to sum up
(1) why do the gif files not work correctly?
(2) is there any way to preserve all the enhancements when you export the file to PowerPoint format?
(3) Is there any way to increase the size of the work area?
Many thanks
Derek
I have made a large number of presentations both (before) in PowerPoint and now in Impress. I would regard myself as an experienced user.
The main use i have for presentations these days is to present songs to our Ukulele group to sing along with.
(1) I have been using .gif animations to liven up my slides. What i find a bit strange is that the gif files that have transparent backgrounds behave perfectly on the editor screen, but show a white background on the actual presentations - and some flicker and misbehave - surely this should show up in the editor screen? I only use very small ones as the big ones freeze impress for 10 minutes at a time!
(2) The reason I have been using .gif images is that when i export the Impress file to one of the .ppt formats (the Ukulele laptop that drives the projector runs Windows) (a) the image animations do not work (b) the media links do not work. If I have time I can sometimes re-make the links directly in PowerPoint but that is not the point.
(3) The "songbooks" we work from are collections of PDF or .DOCX documents, one for each song, each page as long as the song. It is possible in PowerPoint to import a page of that size, put the top at the top of the screen and then scroll it up slowly to the bottom of the document, so the audience can use it a bit like a Karaoke to sing and play along with. However in Libre Office the size of the working area is not big enough to accommodate a long document in the same way. Because of the issues in (2) I do not break the document into two scrolling halves because the conversion loses it, instead I break the document over two pages. I have tried making gif files and MP4s but for the reasons outlined above this is not practical as they become very big. So to sum up
(1) why do the gif files not work correctly?
(2) is there any way to preserve all the enhancements when you export the file to PowerPoint format?
(3) Is there any way to increase the size of the work area?
Many thanks
Derek