Cross Fade?

Peter Goldfield

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Jul 31, 2002, 7:18:19 AM7/31/02

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Sorry if this has been asked before but can't find the obvious "cross fade"
for slide transitions - am I or MS missing something and is there a fix?!
TIA

villem teder

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Jul 31, 2002, 9:21:20 AM7/31/02

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The closest I've found is in PPT XP, called "fade smoothly". And the
more powerful the video hardware, the smoother it looks. In looking at
it so far on various systems, mostly notebooks, (and not the latest in
video hardware), the best results are better when the display is set
to 640 X 480, and at least 16 bit colour. In most cases, hardware
acceleration needs to be turned on, at least, if not at full. The old
"fade through black" seems to have been rewritten, and along with
"fade smoothly", need more processing power. Interestingly, the fades
available under custom animations do not seem to require as much
horsepower!

There are add-ins available that may claim to do dissolves,
CrystalGraphics (?sp) being one that comes to mind. I have no
experience with them, and hopefully, others can comment.

Villem Teder

Toronto

Steve Rindsberg

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Jul 31, 2002, 9:29:24 AM7/31/02

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> Sorry if this has been asked before but can't find the obvious "cross
fade"
> for slide transitions - am I or MS missing something and is there a fix?!

You're not missing anything. That leaves ... you guessed it. <g>

Does anybody know if Crystal or some other outfit has an add-in that does
crossfades?

John Reiher

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Jul 31, 2002, 11:43:07 PM7/31/02

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In article <OLhO6KIOCHA.2048@tkmsftngp08>,
"Peter Goldfield" <photog...@duckspool.com> wrote:

Crossfade is available with PPT2001 and PPTX on the Mac. It's run
through Quicktime and as such, will only work on the Mac and only in
PPT2001 & PPTX.

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Have Mac, will Compute

Peter Goldfield

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Aug 1, 2002, 4:55:15 AM8/1/02

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Ouch! - I'm only using PP2000 (PC) as a convenient way to make an old
fashioned photo slide presemtation rather than using Premiere, or After
Effects or Diorector etc. (too time consuming), thinking that the PP
presentation was cross platform, I'll go back to my ACDSee "fotoangelo"
which is only missing a couple of bells and whistles but cross fades with
impunity and is more intuitive for sound!
Strange as it may sound, MS usually get it right! (g)(duck)

Keith Tromer

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Aug 1, 2002, 10:13:27 AM8/1/02

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With PPT 2002 and the right video hardware (see list below) and the Use
Hardware Acceleration Turned on (in Slide Show Setup) the Fade smoothly
slide transition works OK, but there is usually about a 1 second delay from
the time you press SPACE to the time the fade starts.

Tested Cards:
Desktops:
NVidia GeForce 3 ti 500
NVidia GeForce 3 ti 200
NVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600
ATI Radeon 7500
ATI Radeon 8500

Laptops
GeForce 2Go 32MB
ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility 32 MB and 64 MB

Note: GeForce 4Go seems to be MUCH worse in PowerPoint than the 2Go -- I
would love to know why, if anyone has a clue.
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Keith Tromer
Corporate Imaging Inc.
PowerTools - Productivity Add-ins for PowerPoint
http://www.corpimaging.com/PowerTools

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