How many animations on a slide?
Jun 24, 2011
Working on HR course which ends with a 'you all are leaders' type of slide. To do this, we want to flash pictures of employees from all departments on the screen. We have 54!!! photos. I am trying to have them appear one at a time and doing the animation 'on click' for each photo.
Before I spend a lot of time creating the animation, thought I'd better ask if there is a limit to the number of animations on a single slide that will work in Presenter? Or--can anyone suggest a better way to accomplish a smiling faces slide without severely reducing the number of photos?
We publish to LMS for distribution.
Thanks
5 Replies
You shouldn't encounter a problem with that number of animations on your slide, but you will want to make sure you continue to use "on click" for each of them so that Articulate Presenter will recognize them.
Good luck!
That's a long slide if you have each one come up individually. maybe group them according to dept, or manager. Then show each group one at a time.
Other than that, I've had more that 50 anims on a screen at once. so it can handle it.
I too have had loads of animations on various slides and they generally work fine. Only visual issue I've really encountered is Slide Layouts loading abou1-2 seconds after the main slide content - which doesn't look good. Tends to happen on SLs with slightly heavier images and slower connections. I still wish it wouldn't happen though.
From a learner perspective, I'd go with grouping them in some way. 54 profiles to skip through is a lot, especially if you're on 51 and want to go back to 10, etc.
Thanks to all for your responses!
Hi Virginia - Here's a slide with around 26 animations: http://articulate-community.s3.amazonaws.com/Reducing-OST-ProgressiveReveals/player.html
The biggest challenge is managing so many layers in PowerPoint. I created that example in PowerPoint 2007 using the Selection Pane. It would be tougher in PowerPoint 2003 (no Selection Pane).
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