I am building a series of ppt slides that have several objects animating to various positions. I need the next slide objects to be in the same position they were at the end of the previous slide. Does that make sense?? Basically, where the animations end on one slide needs to be the objects beginning of a new slide. Is this possible or do I need to use another program to build my animations? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Hi Robert. If you don't need to animate the objects on the next slide, you might be able to get away with simply taking a screenshot of the slide and use that for the next slide.
this tool will give you motion path end points, for most other objects they are entrance animations so where they are is where the end. copy and paste and remove the animation would suffice
If you're using something other than motion paths, or if the ideas that folks shared in this thread don't quite fit what you need, feel free to attach an example slide here and we can noodle it out a little more with you.
I will check out the motion path tool. I do have a grow effect at the end of one animation, so it sounds like I will need to adjust the size of the object when starting the animation on the next slide. Well this give me hope...Thank you for the replies. I will report back.
Yes....I did find that the motion path tool works well. I have an extensive background in video editing so, I’m used to having a "match frame" button to pick up where I left off. This tool does that in a kind of clunky way but, it worked. I also found the posting from Tom, showing how to use the motion path tool very helpful (see Jeanette's reply above). One big thing I learned from Tom's post was the use of "guide lines" you can use these like in Photoshop to set X and Y reference lines to line objects up across multiple slides.
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Hi Robert. If you don't need to animate the objects on the next slide, you might be able to get away with simply taking a screenshot of the slide and use that for the next slide.
Hi robert
this tool will give you motion path end points, for most other objects they are entrance animations so where they are is where the end. copy and paste and remove the animation would suffice
http://skp.mvps.org/mptools.htm
Phil
Robert, here's a blog post from Tom that shows how to use the motion path tool that Phil shared.
If you're using something other than motion paths, or if the ideas that folks shared in this thread don't quite fit what you need, feel free to attach an example slide here and we can noodle it out a little more with you.
I love that tool btw. I used to spend an hour just trying to get the end picture in the same spot. I only wish it worked for grow as well!
Kayla
I had never tried to line up grow animations, and I thought it would be easy.
You know the increase in size et, etc, so i just had a go and realised there are more important things for me to be doing than this
Phil
I will check out the motion path tool. I do have a grow effect at the end of one animation, so it sounds like I will need to adjust the size of the object when starting the animation on the next slide. Well this give me hope...Thank you for the replies. I will report back.
I have just stumbled across this forum Q&A and it is exactly what I needed! Thank you community!
Any reports on this Robert? Hoping it turned out well for you.
Yes....I did find that the motion path tool works well. I have an extensive background in video editing so, I’m used to having a "match frame" button to pick up where I left off. This tool does that in a kind of clunky way but, it worked. I also found the posting from Tom, showing how to use the motion path tool very helpful (see Jeanette's reply above). One big thing I learned from Tom's post was the use of "guide lines" you can use these like in Photoshop to set X and Y reference lines to line objects up across multiple slides.
Let me know if you would like anymore insight.
Robert
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