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Create an Animation for Rise Using PowerPoint
- If you create something like this flowchart in PowerPoint, then add in a fade-in animation to each item, set the animation to happen "After Previous" (automatically). (time to play through 1 second).
- Duplicate the slide - set each item to have no animation.
- Go back to first slide - add a transition - NONE but set it to Advance slide after X seconds (where X is the same length of time as it takes for the animation to play [example 1 second)
- Go to second slide - add a transition - MORPH and have it Advance Slide after Y seconds (where Y is the length of time before the animation loops again [example 10 seconds])
- Then you can add this animation directly into a Rise Image Block (or elsewhere)
You can also change the slide size in PPT to reduce the white space around the animation. Example (chart 4.gif) I changed the slide size to half the height
First animation (chart.gif) - no 2nd slide
Second animation (chart 3.gif) - 10 second 2nd slide
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This is awesome!! But--at least for me--there is a key step missing that is implied with the OP's attached GIFs. To keep the looping, after saving the PPT file, do a Save As and save it as a GIF. Then proceed to Step 5 to upload the GIF. You cannot upload PPTs to image or video blocks. Also, converting it to video or image removes some to all animations/transitions. Another option is to import it to Storyline 360 and then import it into the Rise 360 course.
Grand stuff and great tip, super quick to generate and easily tweaked
PPT also does videos, but doesn't retain the timings frustratingly.
There are free online tools to change and optimise these GIFs and have them 'stop' if you want.
But I've generated a local code where you can target these and reduce loop counts, in case you want it to stop looping at the start or end after a certain amount
Found this to be a minor frustration if there's key info the learners/users want the last part after watching the transition.
Also found this needs to be right after a 'continue' block as the gif loop count starts as soon as it's rendered, so if it's 'down' the page, then it will have finished looping
I've attached my loopmodifier profile for terminal runs as a txt (would need to be adapted to local drive and converted to .ps1 file) and a handover doc if you would ever want to use it
Also got a local optomiser in the asset size if "chunky" to reduce overall wrapped content as GIFs can sometimes be weighty in the final publish/wrap
Happy 'giffing'Cool tip TracyParish! I've used PPT to generate custom GIFs when I can't find what I'm looking for in the marketplace. Many folks look down their noses at PPT, but what it can do now is amazing!
Hi TracyParish this is a great tip! I'm moving it to the examples board since more users will be able to find it there.
