how to simulate powerpoint "animation"

leo_d. wrote on 10/6/2008, 4:32 PM

i was given slides of the PPT. but in this person's presentation, the lines "fly in". the slides though contain all of the lines.

i was trying to figure out a way to "cover" portions of the slide and just "lowering" this "cover" line by line until every single bullet point is finished...

so on one video track is the full slide with 10 bullet points. on another video above it is like a white jpg. i want to overlay the white and just lower and lower and lower it...

what makes it harder is the slides have a footer graphic at the bottom so i cant just cover the entire thing, but like a slice?

does that make sense?

thanks...

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Chienworks wrote on 10/6/2008, 5:01 PM

There's all kinds of ways to do this. One really simple thing is to put the footer graphic on it's own track above the slide and white cover. Another thing is to use Pan/Crop with maintain aspect ratio turned off to make the white slide progressively smaller, but you'll also have to use Track Motion to reposition it at each step because Pan/Crop always wants to center the image. Another method is with the cookie cutter with the rectangular preset, choosing the option to let you pick height and width individually. Another method is to use a series of separate images for the mask with progressively more transparent area. And another method is to create a separate image for each step with one more bullet point added to each one. And ... yet another method is to use keyframes to add one line of text to the slide at each step.

Personally, i'd be the cookie cutter method is the simplest.