Slower than 'slow' FADE slide transition ?

[BHavermann]

I'm using PPT 2003, and was hoping to come up with a work around that fades
full page photos on each slide slower than the 'slow' speed offered on the
slide transition speed. The idea is to have the next slide start to come in
sloooowly as the current slide slowly fades on a 400 page presentation which
would leave each slide up for a total of 5 seconds. Thanks in advance!

 

[Kathy J]

There isn't a way (or not that I know of) to select a different speed for
your transitions other than the ones given. If you were using custom
animations to do the fades, then I could help - those can be set as slow or
as fast as you want them to be (virtually).

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[BHavermann]

I thought that is the route I would need to take. When I try that I was
hoping to take advantage of the Master pages in order to cover the
animations. Can you suggest an easy way to do the custom fading like I
mentioned that would make it appear that the next photo is slowly fading in
over the previous one? The problem that I encounter is that when it
advances to the next slide, THAT image is totally gone and then the next one
slowly faeds in. There may be an easier way, but I'm not having any luck
coming up with it. :-(

Thanks.

 

[villem teder]

From your description, it sounds like you want the images to dissolve
from one through to the next, slowly. If that is the case, one easy
way is to put the pictures on top of each other on the same slide. To
each picture, apply an exit animation of however long you want. And
set each animation to start with a click. As a picture fades out, the
one beneath appears to fade in. It might be possible to have each
animation happen automatically after a set period of time, but I
haven't looked into it.

If you want to actually have it as separate slides, it gets a little
trickier. One way it might be done is to have two pictures per slide.
After the fade animation is done, the picture that remains is copied
to be the top picture of the next slide. That picture then has an exit
animation applied to reveal the next picture. And so on. A lot more
work than simply stacking all the picture on the same slide.
And a little confusing semantically, as the "transition" to the next
picture is part of an animation on a slide, while the "transition" to
the next slide doesn't appear to do anything.

And please don't forget to send a message to mswish about adding more
control to transition times.

Villem Teder

 

[Adam Crowley]

If you want to actually have it as separate slides, it gets a little
trickier. One way it might be done is to have two pictures per slide.
After the fade animation is done, the picture that remains is copied
to be the top picture of the next slide. That picture then has an exit
animation applied to reveal the next picture. And so on. A lot more
work than simply stacking all the picture on the same slide.

My approach would be only very slightly different - I'd put a copy of the
photo from slide 1 underneath the photo on slide 2 and Fade in the photo on
slide 2. That way you could make much more sense of what you see in slide
sorter without hurting your head.