Animations Question

Welcome to the community, Kevin!

It sounds like you may have already seen it, but I wanted to share our handy chart on supported PowerPoint animations just in case you hadn't. 

Good luck with the project

Thanks Peter!   I have seen that and appreciate your pointing it out again.

Just to clarify a little on my question.   I am wondering how much animation should be done in Powerpoint and how much in Articulate?

I have been told to do it all in Articulate but I am more experienced in Powerpoint.   So,  if anyone has a perspective,  I would appreciate it.

Hi Kevin,

Presenter has a few animation-type tools, like annotations, spotlights, ticks, arrows etc, if that's what you mean?

But I do all of my animations exclusively in Powerpoint, then use the synch animation tool in Presenter to get the timings right.

My animations include: text fading in onto the screen, handwriting-type text wiping in from the left, shapes fading in to give the impression of a greyed-out screen with a highlighted part on top, etc.

Hope this helps - shout if you need more information (or if I'm on the wrong track entirely...)

Cheers

Sarah.

Our best practice is to use the Animation pane exclusively. I have seen the Synch tool crash too often to trust it.

I have my audio file open in a separate program, get the time for when I need to animate, and add it in. This also gives me the ability to adjust my sound file if I need to play with the animations for a smoother look. And if I need to update, I just update the ones I need in the pane. I don't have to resynch the entire slide again.

This also is helpful for other developers who need to review/edit the course as they can see the animations up front.

Not really fan of the other tools either. I will use the animation pane or a swf overlay if needed.

Thank you Sarah and Dwayne!     Your replies were very helpful!

Best,

Kevin