Was curious why the scaling option in Presenter doesn't make for a smooth playback. Specifically, I was hoping to do some Ken Burns Effect stuff for some still images and I've noticed that the scaling effect causes the image to do some subtle bouncing and looks jumpy in the playback.
Any explanation? Also, any advice for how to fix it or work around it?
If you are talking about the grow and shrink animation if you right click look at the animation timings, there is a smooth start and finish option for this type of animation it is on by default
Would this be right clicking on my Grow/Shrink animation effect in my Animation Pane? If so, would I be looking at the Smooth Start and Smooth End sliders?
hmm...was checking those options and the Smooth Start slider and Smooth End slider were each already set to 0. It's strange because when I officially "Preview" the slide with the Grow/Shrink animation going, it's looks jumpy and not very good. But, if I remove the Grow/Shrink animation from my still photo and start from scratch by finding in my animation options and then hover my mouse over it, the Grow/Shrink animation looks smooth as Articulate quickly previews for me what the Grow/Shrink animation option does and will look like. Is the Grow/Shrink animation just inherently weak in Articulate? I've been doing all my Ken Burns Effect stuff in Apple Motion and then making little MP4 movies that I convert via the Articulate Video Encoder to get them to appear more professional in Presenter playback . Was just hoping there was a chance that I wouldn't have to do that at all consider how convoluted that process is.
Grow and shrink is better in articulate than powerpoint, it does not pixelate as much, it will however look much better done in something like after effects etc
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Hi Josh
If you are talking about the grow and shrink animation if you right click look at the animation timings, there is a smooth start and finish option for this type of animation it is on by default
Phil
Thanks, Phil.
Would this be right clicking on my Grow/Shrink animation effect in my Animation Pane? If so, would I be looking at the Smooth Start and Smooth End sliders?
-josh
Yes, sorry not got powerpoint in front of me, I would set them both to off
Phil
thanks, phil
hmm...was checking those options and the Smooth Start slider and Smooth End slider were each already set to 0. It's strange because when I officially "Preview" the slide with the Grow/Shrink animation going, it's looks jumpy and not very good. But, if I remove the Grow/Shrink animation from my still photo and start from scratch by finding in my animation options and then hover my mouse over it, the Grow/Shrink animation looks smooth as Articulate quickly previews for me what the Grow/Shrink animation option does and will look like. Is the Grow/Shrink animation just inherently weak in Articulate? I've been doing all my Ken Burns Effect stuff in Apple Motion and then making little MP4 movies that I convert via the Articulate Video Encoder to get them to appear more professional in Presenter playback . Was just hoping there was a chance that I wouldn't have to do that at all consider how convoluted that process is.
-josh
Hi Josh
Grow and shrink is better in articulate than powerpoint, it does not pixelate as much, it will however look much better done in something like after effects etc
Phil
thanks, for your help, phil. i guess i'll just keep pluggin' away!
-josh
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