We attended a webinar as a group today and are pretty sold on Articulate for our teams. We are curious about Powerpoint imports, though. Do animations or any sort of interactions we design into our Powerpoints make the transition into Storyline?
We know that when we import PPT files into Captivate, it's basically the equivalent of a picture, but Captivate is obviously generations behind Storyline. I was asked to find out about this.
I had an opposite case, where I wanted to import a PPT without preserving the animations, but I didn't find any checkbox to tick on, to refrain from this preserving option. Is it possible, or do I have to first remove all animations from my original PPT? Many thanks!
You have to remove them in either Ppt or SL. Fortunately, removing them is fairly easy. On a slide, select all, and set animations to none. Unfortunately, you have to do it for each slide.
I guess there's a further question - which ones will make it to a HTML5 export? I was very disappointed when I saw the published output of one of my courses, and found that wipe isn't supported in HTML5
I'm sorry to hear that! Some web browsers have better HTML5 support than others. One example of this is how they handle masking animations, such as split, wheel, and wipe. To be specific:
All Storyline 360 and Storyline 3 animations and transitions work as expected in desktop versions of Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
I spent a bunch of time creating some really nice animations in PPT, then imported them into storyline and it broke them. I had to redo them all from scratch in storyline in order to get them to work. To be clear, import of animations into storyline from powerpoint will not work, storyline will break your animations and you'll have to redo them all, . (period!)
6 Replies
Hello Joseph!
YES, Storyline takes animations and other properties from Powerpoint and will convert them accordingly.
You can check this article for more details on animations: https://community.articulate.com/series/articulate-storyline-360/articles/articulate-storyline-360-user-guide-how-powerpoint-animations-transitions-are-imported?_ga=2.267670603.479949055.1505852067-937168960.1505332705
Hope it helps!
Dear Mike,
I had an opposite case, where I wanted to import a PPT without preserving the animations, but I didn't find any checkbox to tick on, to refrain from this preserving option.
Is it possible, or do I have to first remove all animations from my original PPT? Many thanks!
Irina,
You have to remove them in either Ppt or SL. Fortunately, removing them is fairly easy. On a slide, select all, and set animations to none. Unfortunately, you have to do it for each slide.
I guess there's a further question - which ones will make it to a HTML5 export? I was very disappointed when I saw the published output of one of my courses, and found that wipe isn't supported in HTML5
Hi Adam!
I'm sorry to hear that! Some web browsers have better HTML5 support than others. One example of this is how they handle masking animations, such as split, wheel, and wipe. To be specific:
I spent a bunch of time creating some really nice animations in PPT, then imported them into storyline and it broke them. I had to redo them all from scratch in storyline in order to get them to work. To be clear, import of animations into storyline from powerpoint will not work, storyline will break your animations and you'll have to redo them all, . (period!)
This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.