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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.

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Animations For Prezi

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

3D animated clipart for Prezi and PowerPoint.

We often get asked if PresenterMedia will work with Prezi.  The good news is that our animations and clipart work great!  View the sample Prezi above to see our 3D animations in action.  Click here to view our entire collection of animations for Prezi and PowerPoint.

Question and Answer

Sample Animation

Search for Clue

Sample Animation

Bail Water

Sample Animations

A few notes about Prezi:

  1. Download our animations as .SWF (Flash animations)
  2. Use the largest size available for the animations
  3. PNG clipart works great
  4. Our Video Backgrounds will work when inserted as a .flv video, but will not automatically loop.

You can also post your PowerPoint presentations created with our templates on Prezi, but, since the presentation is converted to PDF by Prezi, the animations are converted to still images.

Let us know if you are using Presi and PresenterMedia together.

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Your First PowerPoint Animation

Monday, June 27th, 2011

Downloading an animation from PresenterMedia is an easy process, but if you’ve never used an animated file (.gif) in your presentations before, there are a couple of pitfalls to avoid.  Watch this short new video tutorial from PresenterMedia co-owner, Art Holden, to see how simple it is.


Click the Play button above.
How to download animations for PowerPoint.

Covered in this video:

  • For PowerPoint, always download the largest animation available.  This yields the best quality.
  • After clicking the download link, always choose “SAVE” to save the image to your computer.  Choosing OPEN may end up removing the animation from the image.
  • In PowerPoint, always use the “Insert/Picture” function to place the animation in your presentation.  Inserting it as a video or copying and pasting it into your presentation can yield poor results.

View all our Animations for PowerPoint.

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Matching Animation Background Color

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Welcome to another Getting Started video tutorial.   We hope these tutorials help you get the most out of your PresenterMedia subscription.

In most cases using the clear background versions of our PowerPoint animations work great.  But in some software, such as Flash, clear animations are not supported.  Here are a few examples when customizing the background color of our animations may be needed.

  • Using a Flash (SWF) animation in Captivate or Articulate
  • Using an animated gif with Keynote on the Mac
  • To get the best image quality possible.

Our customizer application makes it possible to exactly match the background color of an animation to the background of your project.

Press the play button to view a video on how to use PresenterMedia’s customizer to change background colors.

Covered in this video:

  • Finding the exact color value of your presentation’s background.
  • Applying the exact color to a PresenterMedia PowerPoint animation’s background.

If you have any questions, please feel free to use the comments section or our contact form.

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Animated Clipart Stops after Saving

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

For a very few PowerPoint users, for some reason PowerPoint improperly applies compression to animated .GIF images when the presentation is saved.  We have been unable to duplicate the problem here at PresenterMedia, but Microsoft acknowledges it here.

If you are one of the few PowerPoint users who have experienced the problem, there is an easy work around.  Unfortunately you need to do this work around every time you start a new presentation that contains animations.

1. Choose ‘Save As’
2. Click the ‘Tools’ options.
3. Choose ‘Compress Pictures’

PowerPoint Compress Pictures

Choose Compress Pictures from the Tools Pulldown

4. Click on ‘Options’

PowerPoint Compression Options

Choose the Options for Compress Pictures

5. Uncheck ‘Automatically preform basic compression on save.’

Automatically preform basic compression

Uncheck Automatically Preform Basic Compression on Save

6. Click ‘Ok’ in the compression settings.

7. Click ‘CANCEL’  on the Compress Pictures dialog.  Choosing OK here will apply the compression and freeze the animations.

Cancel Compression

Choose Cancel to avoid applying the compression.

8. At this point, you can either save your presentation, or go back to working on it.  This setting is now saved as part of the document and you will not need to do it again for this document.

Unfortunately, you will need to reinsert any animations that have been compressed, as there is no way back after the compression has been applied.

If anyone knows why this happens for a few PowerPoint users, we would love to know.  Leave your comments below.

Here is more on this problem from the PPTfaq.

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