Using Presentation as Part of a Webcast

[Christine]

....just found out this week that ANY kind of animation doesn't work in
webcasts. Apparently, the webcast records the slide as an individual jpg and
basically it broadcasts everything at the same time.

Has anyone had any other experiences w/ webcasts and using animation
successfully?

The only work around I can think of is "animating" from slide to slide
instead of on the slide itself.

Yet another limitation to remember when developing presentations for others!

Christine

 

[Echo S]

...just found out this week that ANY kind of animation doesn't work in
webcasts. Apparently, the webcast records the slide as an individual jpg
and
basically it broadcasts everything at the same time.

Has anyone had any other experiences w/ webcasts and using animation
successfully?

The only work around I can think of is "animating" from slide to slide
instead of on the slide itself.

Yet another limitation to remember when developing presentations for
others!

Depends on what webcast software you're using, but yes, many of them don't
support animation. However, most of them allow desktop or application
sharing. If you go that route, you can just play the presentation on the
machine as usual. I wouldn't go too heavy on the animation, though, because
it will be slow and choppy (and, therefore, simply annoying, not effective)
for many of the webcast audience members.

If they're uploading their slides, "building" slide-by-slide is definitely
better. And watch out for hidden slides. A lot of the webcast software
doesn't upload hiddent slides at all.

 

[Christine]

Thx guys/gals

I haven't been working on decks for our larger meetings that utilize
webcasts and just found this out from my coworkers that do.

Apparently the vendors that work with our company to host our webcasts use
the type of software that doesn't support animation.

The hidden slide info is good to know too Echo...none of our users are even
aware of it though so I'm pretty safe there!

Christine

 

[Echo S]

Cool. It's good you're finding out now and not during a presentation!

Be aware that some of them (the web apps) have issues with transparent
and/or gradient objects as well. It's better than it used to be, but I still
see issues occasionally and have to cut the object and paste special as PNG
to get it to look right when uploaded to the webcast app. (Just thought of
that, or I would have mentioned it earlier, heh.)