AV News 197 - August 2014
As you will see,
you can change
the rate at which
the
animation
occurs at the start
and at the end. In
this example I
have gone for a
slow start to the
animation, so it
takes 40% of the
time to 'get up to
speed' and then it
slows down pretty
quickly, in the last
10%
of
the
animation time.
Two new features which have appeared in version 8 of PTE are the ability to
animate blur and animate colour adjustment. Use exactly the same facility, but
change the blur parameter for one of the keyframes. For example, you might
start with the image blurred at time 00:00, but even before the image has
totally faded in, your second keyframe returns the image back to normal
sharpness. The effect will be that your images seem to drift from one to
another. Moody, misty scenes would seem to be worth trying here.
Likewise you can change an image from colour to mono, sepia or your own
colour effect using keyframe animation. This could make an easier way to get
from those monochrome, archive images to your contemporary colour images.
In the next article I will look at using more than two keyframes and at
animating a number of objects on a slide.
However, can I counsel you? In many cases animations can be distracting
to the audience and, rather than enhancing your sequence, can disturb. So
every time you think of using an animation in your sequence, ask yourself
whether it will really improve what you are trying to get over.
Great Yorkshire AV Day
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