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Grazie wrote on 1/28/2003, 5:07 PM
In VF you can . . .

1 - Make Text move, spin, fade in and out
2 - Slide Graphics all over the place
3 - Using Timeline to time graphics against music
4 - Slide two and more Videos all over the place
5 - Roll text and peel videos in and out
6 - Add and edit audio with multiple Audio effects
7 - ....... run out of ideas so far!
8 - Oh yes - you can import animated GIFs too! I've created my own and imported them into VF.

But, the 2 questions remains - why & what? Why and what do you want to do extra that you can do in PowerPoint, that you can't do separately in PP and VF?

Are you saying - "Can I import a PP pressie into VF?" The quick answer is no. This topic has been crawled over several times.

There are 2 packages that do make PP-like pressies - Flash and Swish (?). However niether can be "pulled" into VF - I believe. Others will deny or prove.

But, again - what are you trying to do?

You can pull AVIs into PP.

Hmmmm . . I need some more from you,

Regards

Grazie
IanG wrote on 1/28/2003, 5:30 PM
Version 2 of Swish can output in avi format, so that would be an option.

Ian G.
Grazie wrote on 1/29/2003, 1:41 AM
Thanks Ian.

I thought I read Swish as being VF-friendly, but couldn't get my Memory RAM to access it! Have you used it? I've got and use Opus Pro. Fabulous multi-functional AND programmable presentation s/w. It also comes with its own timeline options. Fully clickable user interface on the pressies AND user-pressie input features, ie you can construct a presentation and have the user of THAT pressie to input data, answer questions, add text, view moving MPEG and AVI files and as they say . . . a whole lot more. Oh yes it works with Flash! However you can't, as yet, output to an AVI.

I've seen Swish working and it is very smmmmoooooth!

Cheers

Grazie
IanG wrote on 1/29/2003, 3:05 AM
Hi Grazie! I've used Swish 1, but only had a perfunctory doodle with version 2. I did try producing avi and including it in VF though, and it seemed to be ok.

Ian G.
Kriben wrote on 1/29/2003, 10:09 AM
Thanks Grazie.

Because I am fairly new to VF, I did not know that I could do all these things. Essentially my video calls for rather static data charts to 'come alive'with animations like you have in PP. But I know that PP cannot be imported into VF, hence my question. But if VF can do the things you say it does, then I may not have a problem.

Thanks again.

Kriben
the_ripper wrote on 1/29/2003, 10:47 AM
I second SWISH. I am a Web Administrator, most quick animation work is always done in SWISH for the internet. much easier than Macro Media Flash for many tasks....I have even Pulled AVI's apart in SF, pulled the images back together in SWISH to make a web .swf movie! SWISH reminds me of VF, cost $50, It is easy to learn and works ;) the_ripper
Kriben wrote on 1/29/2003, 12:28 PM
Thanks. I've just downloaded Swish2.

Kriben