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Monday, July 5, 2010

How to Make Animation or Movies with Microsoft PowerPoint

Flipbook cartoon animations are fun, aren't they? Don't you wish you could make them in Powerpoint? Or just make them smoother than before? This how-to can help you make movies, cartoons, and animations faster and better with Powerpoint. STEPS : 1.Open Powerpoint and create a new presentation. Make a blank slide and set the transition to advance after 1 seconds. Click Apply to all. 2. Draw the first frame of your animation. this one is important - it is the frame that all of the other frames in this scene will be based on. Take your time with it. 3. Duplicate the slide, and make a very slight change in this slide for the progress of the animation. If you had a ball falling, make it go down one or two places. (Note: Powerpoint doesn't use actual pixels, but a slightly larger placement system. Think of it as an invisible graph.) 4. Duplicate the new slide and keep going. For things like gravity, make the motion stronger each time, eg, changing it more and more. The most catastrophic thing is to make things go too fast,s o don't be afraid to take a lot of slides to do one thing - you can always delete them later. 5. Preview your presentation constantly, changing anything you think needs to be changed. Erase unneeded slides and such, add or delete details until your presentation is perfect. 6. Add in sounds and other details, then make a beginning and ending slide, maybe even an opening sequence. 7. You're done! If you want, you can even turn it into a flash movie using wink.

How to Add an Audio Player to a Website Using Entertonement

Have you ever wanted to add audio to a website, but don't want to embed a whole video frame? Add an audio player frame instead! If you want to find the easiest way to upload audio to your science fiction blog, for example, and didn't want to embed several youtube videos that would take up space, this is the easiest way for you. STEPS : 1. Find your audio source. This can include an online video, a file on your computer, or audio to record straight from your computer's microphone. 2. Open an account. Create an account at http://www.entertonement.com Yes, this will take a few seconds, but you'll save much more time, and all your audio will be in one account in case you need to re-add a clip later. 3. Upload the audio from step 1 into Entertonement: The large orange "upload" button on the right side is your friend. 4. Upload the audio from step 1 into Entertonement: The large orange "upload" button on the right side is your friend. 5. Embed the player: Click your username to go to your profile, or click "My Uploads" on the upload page after saving. Click the link for the file you want to embed, and copy the code the "embed" button gives you. 6. Add it to your site/blog: Paste the embed code in your webpage, and enjoy as you're done!