Archive for November, 2011

Animations For Keynote

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Today we added QuickTime support to our animated clipart section.  You can now download any of our animations as a QuickTime (.MOV) file.

But what does this mean for you?
If you are using a Mac computer with either Keynote or PowerPoint, these new files will look fabulous.  You can download the QuickTime files with a transparent background and even have semi-transparent shadows and reflections included.  The transparent versions of the QuickTime files include an alpha channel which defines the transparent areas of the animations.

The QuickTime files can also be downloaded with a solid color background.  The solid color background animations will even work with the Keynote App on the iPad.

Things to keep in mind.

  1. QuickTime files are best used on a Mac computer.
    PowerPoint 2010 does have support for QuickTime, if you have QuickTime installed, but we recommend sticking with the animated .gif files on the PC.
  2. The iPad will only support the solid color background versions.
  3. The file size for the transparent versions is larger than the solid versions, so go sparingly if you want to keep your presentation file size down.

Getting Started With Video Backgrounds

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

A new Getting Started video tutorial exploring how to use our video backgrounds.

Note: Due to limitations in older versions of PowerPoint, video backgrounds are designed to be used in PowerPoint 2010, or PowerPoint 2011 (Mac) or Keynote 09 (Mac).

Covered in this video:

  • Download and Insert a Video Background in PowerPoint
  • Using the Selection Pane to select or hide items on a slide
  • Using the Animation Pane to control the visibility of items on a slide over time.

View all our video backgrounds for PowerPoint.