PowerPoint Multimedia Effects
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Understand the concept of slide transitions and create transition effects from screen to screen
- Add sound effects to slide transitions and control the timing of transition effects
- Understand how animation effects can make any text or graphics object move onto the screen with a variety of special effects
- Know the difference between preset and custom animations
- Animate text, build text, and dim previously animated text
- Animate images and coordinate the animation of multiple objects
- Insert sound and video from the clip library
- Find and insert sound and video from other sources beyond the clip library
- Make sound and movies autostart
- Create movie special effects including loops, animations, autoplay, crop, resize, brightness, and contrast
- Insert automated GIF images onto the screen
Slide Transitions
PowerPoint lets you make a wide variety of slide transitions. You need to be careful not to overuse them. You don't want to put a different kind of transition on each screen of your application. Instead, you can change the transition effect to indicate the beginning of a new section of a presentation, or to emphasize a certain slide. To learn how to make slide transitions, watch this movie.
Sound Effects
When you learned how to make a slide transition, you may have noticed the option to make a sound effect play during the transition. Be careful not to overuse this feature, because it's quite ok and often preferable for a slide to dissolve silently. When you do want a transitional sound effect, this movie shows you how to do it.
Preset Animation
The quickest way to create an animation is to use one of the preset methods. This movie shows you how.
Custom Animation
PowerPoint lets you create some intricate custom text animations. You can set up the way you want the text to appear on your slide, such as to fly in from the left, for example, and you can set the text to appear by the letter, word, or paragraph. This movie shows you how to create a custom animated text.
Sound Files
A wide variety of sound files are available to you from the clip gallery. Watch this movie to learn now to insert a sound file from the clip gallery onto a slide.
Movie Files
You can insert a movie clip and size and position it on any screen where you want it to play during a slide show. This movie shows you how.
Animated GIFs
Animated GIF images are one of the simplest yet most effective means of getting motion on screen. This movie shows you how to insert animated GIFs anyplace on a PowerPoint screen.
