As a number of you have noticed, the default speed when you save your powerpoint as a movie is very fast–the slides go by in about 2 seconds, which is too fast for reading most of your brilliant works.
So, to leave slides up for longer:
- click transitions>
- transition options>
- when you see the pop-up dialogue box, click ‘advance slide after (add whatever you like here—however long you want your slide up) seconds’.
Note: By clicking ‘all transitions’ at the upper left, you’ll be making sure that all slides play for that length of time when you save as a movie (you can also do this by highlighting all the slides in the left column). If you want some slides to stay up for longer than others, you should highlight each slide individually and change the seconds for each one.
A couple of other things to note: unfortunately, the movie format will NOT support the in -slide powerpoint animations so many of you are fond of. I’m working on a solution to that, but in the meantime, you should be creating more than one slide when you want new text and/or elements to appear, then dissolving between the slides. See my demo video for a reminder on how to do that.
It’s also more difficult than one might have thought to embed video into the slides, then to have that transfer to the movie format. Even when successfully playing, things are still turning out wacky for most of us (for example, the rest of the slides get thrown off). We’ll keep working on that. But there is good news: as we move forward, we’re going to be transferring this project to imovie, where we’ll be able to manage things more handily.