Powerpoint 2003 ??? reguarding moving pictures

[Kickback]

This is what i am playing around with. My presentation will consist of
using one picture and saving that picture at various pixel sizes, starting
off at 32x32 and working my way up to, perhaps, 600x600. I plan on putting
the smallest pixel sized picture on the 3rd slide against a black
background, and every slide, there after, will increase in picture size,
until i reach the last slide having the largest picture on it. All slides
having the same black background. Once done, and played back, the image
will appear moving from the center of the background towards the center of
the foreground. My only dilemma is, i noticed the slide transition time
only goes down to 00:00.1 and that doesn't seem fast enough for the image
to have that nice smooth transition. On the other hand, if i take all
those images and make them into a GIF file using "Jasc Animation Shop,"
then insert the GIF file onto one slide, my problem has been solved.

Now my questions are:

Is there a way to get powerpoint to speed up faster during slide
transitions, without having to revert to some other program to accomplish
it and...

Two, am I right in doing what I did to overcome my problem or maybe you
have some other suggestions? Thank You

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Kickback,

Is there any reason why you are not just using the "zoom from center"
animation effect that is built into powerpoint?

You could just use the 600x600 pixel image then?

It would be a lot smoother than trying to 'fake' the effect

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Kathy Jacobs]

What I do...
Insert the picture a single time at the largest size you will want it. Give
it an entrance animation. Then give it a Grow/Shrink animation to start at
the same time as the entrance animation. Set the percentage for the grow
shrink to something tiny. Now, add successive Grow/Shrink animations to run
one right after the other with larger and larger percentages. The last one
should be at 100%. It runs very smoothly and doesn't seem to degrade the
picture. Try it and post back with your results....

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