Transcript Special Effects in PowerPoint

How to Script a
Presentation
and
Include Your Own
Original Media
Bryn Jones
UNDA 2001
Scripting and Effects
in
PowerPoint
Bryn Jones
University of Notre Dame
Australia
2001
What is Scripting?
• When you create a slide in Powerpoint, it will normally show as
follows (just like this one):
– All the Graphics will appear on the screen at the start and stay
there
– All the text will appear at the start unless you add a build option in
the Slide Sorter
• If you want something different, you need to use scripting.
• Scripting allows you to add text and graphics in any order you
want.
• You start scripting by choosing
Slide Show - Custom Animation
This is the same slide with builds but no Scripting?
(A “Fly from Left” Build has been added after each mouse click)
• When you create a slide in Powerpoint, it will normally show as
follows:
– All the Graphics will appear on the screen at the start and stay
there
– All the text will appear at the start unless you add a build option in
the Slide Sorter
• If you want something different, you need to use scripting.
• Scripting allows you to add text and graphics in any order you
want.
• You start scripting by choosing
Slide Show - Custom Animation
This Page uses Scripting
Note that the words and pictures are added in a different order
• When you create a slide in Powerpoint, it will normally show as
follows (NOT like this one):
– All the Graphics will appear on the screen at the start and stay
there
– All the text will appear at the start unless you add a build option in
the Slide Sorter
• If you want something different (like this), you need to use
scripting.
• Scripting allows you to add text and graphics in any order you
want.
• You start scripting by choosing
Slide Show - Custom Animation
Choose that whilst looking at this screen and you can explore
and vary the settings for this page.
How to Script a Screen
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Place the items on the page as normal. (Insert…)
To use your own media choose Insert … from File rather than ..from Clip Art or from
Gallery
Media can be Text, Video, Clip Art, Photos or Sound
Use the command
Slide Show - Custom Animation
You should see something
like this
(but all the items will be in the
Timing panel)
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Click the Timing tab
In the list on the left, (under Timing) select the item you want to appear first on your
slide.
Choose the options under Start Animation.
Click the Effects tab and make your selections
Choose Preview for an idea of how you are going but…
To really see what happens go back and run your presentation
Select the item you want to
appear second and so on….
You will need to practise
before you really
understand it.
Try it on some of the slides
in the presentations in this
unit.
If you can understand all
of them, you are doing
pretty well.
Powerpoint has become very
confusing in its commands and
similar commands appear in several
places, often with different features.
See also
• Animation effects button
(yellow star)
• Items in the Slide Show menu
• Commands in the Slide Sorter
view
The special effects can get very irritating, can’t they?!
Save the Silos
You can use a photograph as the background
To use a photo as a background
• Use Insert Picture from the File menu
• Size the picture using its handles
• Use Draw/Order (look in the bottom left of the screen) to
move objects to the front and back so that you
can add text etc.
• Choose text colours to work with the
background.This is not always possible.
• Try it with this slide and photo.
• You can do better than this!
• The photo becomes part of the file, you don’t
need to include the file with your presentation
as you would with html.
Adding videos is similar except that videos tend to be very large files
So your presentation will need more storage space.
You also may need a more powerful computer to run it which may be a
problem in some cases. Getting videos to work reliably cross-platform is quite
difficult.
The video file may need to be included in the same folder as the presentation
Test your presentation on another computer.
If you want to try to understand the scripting of this screen, press
ESCAPE and then choose Slide Show - Custom Animation
You can insert a movie here then click on the movie to view it
This will not work over the Internet because you need
the movie file to be on your computer!
But you can insert your own movie from your own
hard drive at this point.
Use Insert - Movies and Sounds - From Gallery
Or Insert - Movies and Sounds - From File.
Have a go!
• Special effects in Powerpoint are a bit messy and
sometimes not intuitive.
• The only way to become an expert is to
experiment and keep trying.
• Not all things are possible in Powerpoint but it
does a lot of things very quickly and easily.
• You may need a more sophisticated authoring
package for some jobs.
AND REMEMBER - avoid
gratuitous graphics
and extraneous effects.