Animation

[Sue Hickson]

Hi
I have been asked to show a series of short animations (about 10 seconds each). My director wants these to be smaller than the screen (which I can do) and to float slowly down the screen during the animation then fade to the next animation in a different position which will then also float down. He assures me that this can be done in Powerpoint. Can it be done in SCS?
thanks

[Mike Daniell]

Unfortunately this is not currently possible in SCS. I say 'currently' because I've had a number of requests for cropping, masking and overall adjustments to suit video projection screens, so dynamically adjusting the image position is a reasonable addition to that planned list of changes.

Meanwhile, what you can do is run PowerPoint from SCS. There's a basic example in the Help under Run External Program Cues.

[lwalton]

Hi Sue,

I had to do something similar last year for a play.
The director wanted scrolling title text on the cyc to flag scenes and comment on some of the action.
I made the titles in powerpoint and animated and transitioned them with the timing required, and I also masked the image to the upper part of the display to avoid the text on the actors.
I then saved a copy of the slideshow within Powerpoint as a video clip, eg wmv.
I then cued the animations as video clips in SCS.

I had to do some timing adjustments and text changes as we fine tuned the show, but that was just editing in powerpoint and resaving the video file.

Hope this helps.