Animated GIF moves too fast

Jeff

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Dec 20, 2000, 10:14:57 AM12/20/00

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I have inserted an animated gif file that looks fine in IE5 and other gif
viewers, but when I play it in Powerpoint 2000, it moves too fast, like it
is ignoring the embedded delay info.

Austin Myers

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Dec 20, 2000, 11:50:25 AM12/20/00

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Jeff,

A known issue. Read the following.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PPT2000: Animated GIF Appears to Drop Frames During Playback [Q238804]

PSS ID Number: Q238804
Article last modified on 08-30-1999

WINDOWS:2000

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
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SYMPTOMS
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If you insert an animated GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) image into your
presentation, Microsoft PowerPoint may appear to drop frames during playback
of
the GIF when you view your presentation in Slide Show.

CAUSE
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PowerPoint uses Windows VGXDirectAnimation API technology to play the
animated
GIF images.

PowerPoint appears to drop frames or play some animated GIF images much
faster
than a Web browser because most browsers do not use VGX for playback.
Browsers
slow down the frame rate for animated GIF images which have frame rates that
are
higher (faster) than needed. Many animated GIF authors create images that
use
the smallest possible frame delay, about one one-hundredth of a second, to
get
smoothly animated movies; however, this is faster than the eye can perceive.
When you play the animated GIF in a browser, the browser lowers the frame
rate
to make playback slower. Because PowerPoint does not do this with animated
GIF
images, it tries to animate as fast as possible, and frames appear to be
dropped.

RESOLUTION
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To resolve this problem, reduce the frame rate of the animated GIF image by
setting the speed to one-fifteenth or one-tenth of a second. You must do
this
using animated GIF editing software. If you have animated GIF editing
software,
please see your documentation for how to set the frame rate of your animated
GIF
image.

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Keywords : kbgraphic kbdta kbslideshow
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbprb
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Shyam Pillai

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Dec 20, 2000, 11:57:09 AM12/20/00

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Jeff,
This is a known issue. Check out these articles

OFF2000: Animated GIF Files Play Very Quickly in Web Page
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q226/6/97.asp

PPT2000: Animated GIF Appears to Drop Frames During Playback

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q238/8/04.asp

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Sonia

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Dec 20, 2000, 12:22:18 PM12/20/00

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To add to what Austin and Shyam have said, at the bottom of this page
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/autorun_giftoavi.htm there are a few software
products that will allow you to make the recommended changes. All are fairly easy to use.

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Sonia Coleman, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Website: http://www.soniacoleman.com
PowerPoint Tutorials: http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/Tutorials.htm
Autorun CD: http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/Autorun_CD.htm

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