Animated GIF 2004-06-23 - By Jack Whitney
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I don't know anything about PowerPoint, but based on my experience with
animated gifs I'll take a crack at it:
When creating animated gifs from frames in image editing software like
Adobe ImageReady or Macromedia Fireworks, there is an option to control
the amount of time each frame is displayed during play. The first frame
may be set to display for 1/10th of a second and the next frame for 2
seconds, etc. When you save the animated gif from Carrara at 12 frames
per second, it does the math and sets each frame to display for 1/12th
of a second. Your browser obviously understands this. Maybe PowerPoint
is not capable of making this distinction, or maybe it has a feature in
the preferences or in the menu somewhere that allows you to dictate how
long each frame is displayed. I would suggest you start with that. If
nothing pans out there, try to set the frame rate with ImageReady or
Fireworks. If you don't have one of them you could probably download a
trial version or look for a freeware equal. Here is one for Mac called
GifBuilder:
http://www.mac.org/graphics/gifbuilder/
As I typed in the line above, it occured to me to try a Google search
with the following ing the search field: "powerpoint animated gif frame
rate".
I got some interesting links that may answer your problem. Good luck.
Jack
On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 02:27 PM, northwatchmantech wrote:
> Ok, I'm going to try this again...
>
> Does anyone know how to fix the problem I am running into with an
> animated gif I am doing for a Powerpoint Presentation? When I create
> the animated gif and display it using internet explorer, the gif
> plays at the right speed. When I play the animated gif in a
> powerpoint presentation, It plays like it's on steroids 3 to 5 times
> it's speed). I need to slow it down but in adding frames, it makes
> the file size too big.
>
>
> My settings are:
>
> no dithering
> optimal palette
> gif version 87a
> no transparency
>
> My animation is 3 seconds long and frame rate is set to 12. In
> powerpoint, my animation runs about half a second so that it does
> three (3) revolution in the time it should do 1.
>
> Thank you
>
> Northwatch
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Digital Illustration, Animation & Design
http://www.jwhitneystudio.com
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