Customized Animation, from point A to point B on a slide?

Aug 23, 2013

hi everyone,

I've got a flow chart with 5 steps on a slide and would like to animate some boxes to highlight what the presenter is talking about. Currently, whenever the presenter talks about a point on the flow chart, I just have a rectangle (with no fill and 3pt red border) highlight that point. Then, as the presenter moves to the next point, I have that rectangle fade out and another one fade in at the new point.

While this does produce the desired effect... to draw the learners attention to the point at hand. It isn't super smooth. Is there anyway to maintain the same red rectangle and just have it smoothly move around the slide to highlight each point (i.e. no fading in and fading out of different rectangles)?

I've done a little with Storyline animations, but haven't yet found if it's possible to reach this level of customization. Any help much appreciated!

8 Replies

Josh Uhlig

over 10 years ago08/23/13 at 10:44 am (UTC)

Hi Alex,

Unfortunately, the current set of animations within Storyline are very limited. There isn't any way to move an object from one point to another directly in Storyline.

OWEN HOLT
Hero

over 10 years ago08/23/13 at 10:52 am (UTC)

That being said... I strongly encourage you to make a Feature Request and maybe with enough "voices", it will be considered for a future version release.

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

over 10 years ago08/23/13 at 10:57 am (UTC)

Hi Alex! Looks like Josh answered your question and Owen has a great suggestion here as well. Thanks guys!

Alex Knopes
Author

over 10 years ago08/23/13 at 10:57 am (UTC)

Sounds good, thanks for the guidance. I'll submit a feature request.

One more question: are any other Articulate products capable of doing this type of animation? Maybe Presenter?

(I don't own it, but would consider investing if it had that capability)

Josh Uhlig

over 10 years ago08/23/13 at 12:27 pm (UTC)

Presenter is basically an add on to PowerPoint. This animation can be done PowerPoint and then published using Presenter.

Duane Knudsen

over 10 years ago08/23/13 at 12:38 pm (UTC)

Alex, if you still wanted to do your overall project in Storyline, you could create this piece you are talking about in PowerPoint with the appropriate animations and save it as a wmv movie file. Then import that into your Storyline project. Wouldn't need Presenter.