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From: Bev A. Kupf on 2 Feb 2005 23:17

Hi,

One of the professors I work for needs to make a Powerpoint
presentation with animation. He needs to have an object
move from one defined point to another. I'm told Windows
Powerpoint has an animation option called "motion path",
that permits doing this.

This doesn't seem to be present in Powerpoint 2004. As
an alternative, I created a set of slides for him that
had the object in a different position along a trajectory,
exported these as TIFF files, and then used iMovie to
convert the TIFF files into a movie that I imported back
into a Powerpoint slide.

The resulting movie works, but lines look jagged and imprecise.
So, is there another way to get something equivalent to
"motion path" in Mac Powerpoint 2004 (or Powerpoint X). Or,
what can I do to improve the quality of the movie I create
with iMovie using a series of high-resolution TIFF files.

Thanks,
Beverly
--
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From: John Decker on 4 Feb 2005 19:05
In article <slrnd039ds.u9a.bevakupf(a)myhome.net>, Bev A. Kupf says...
>
>
>Hi,
>
>One of the professors I work for needs to make a Powerpoint
>presentation with animation. He needs to have an object
>move from one defined point to another. I'm told Windows
>Powerpoint has an animation option called "motion path",
>that permits doing this.
>
>This doesn't seem to be present in Powerpoint 2004. As
>an alternative, I created a set of slides for him that
>had the object in a different position along a trajectory,
>exported these as TIFF files, and then used iMovie to
>convert the TIFF files into a movie that I imported back
>into a Powerpoint slide.
>
>The resulting movie works, but lines look jagged and imprecise.
>So, is there another way to get something equivalent to
>"motion path" in Mac Powerpoint 2004 (or Powerpoint X). Or,
>what can I do to improve the quality of the movie I create
>with iMovie using a series of high-resolution TIFF files.
>
>Thanks,
>Beverly
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Try posting to:<microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint>


JD

From: Bev A. Kupf on 5 Feb 2005 06:37
On 4 Feb 2005 16:05:21 -0800,
John Decker (John_member(a)newsguy.com) wrote:
> Try posting to:<microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint>

Good suggestion -- I'll give them a try.

--
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9rique_=26_Herv=E9_Sai?==?ISO-8859-1?Q?nct?= on 5 Feb 2005 13:44
Bev A. Kupf <bevakupf(a)myhome.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One of the professors I work for needs to make a Powerpoint
> presentation with animation. He needs to have an object
> move from one defined point to another. I'm told Windows
> Powerpoint has an animation option called "motion path",
> that permits doing this.

There is a *somehow* related discussion in the (unfortunately Apple
proprietary) Keynote forum, where someone details how to build a movie
(later incorporated in a slide) featuring a pointer (or whichever image
you want) that will follow the cursor. Most probably, instead of the
cursor you could have the image follow a given path. But I retained it
was not instant...

http://discussions.info.apple.com/keynote/

ah, I got it. The description itself is there:

http://www.keynoteuser.com/tips/pointer.html

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From: Tim Murray on 5 Feb 2005 18:43
> One of the professors I work for needs to make a Powerpoint
> presentation with animation. He needs to have an object
> move from one defined point to another. I'm told Windows
> Powerpoint has an animation option called "motion path",
> that permits doing this.

Of course you have things like Flash, but on the lower end, maybe a product
like SnagIt would do the trick?

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