RE: exporting animations to powerpoint
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg47258] RE: [mg47217] exporting animations to powerpoint
- From: David.Annetts at csiro.au
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:03:56 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Dennis
> I am trying to export an animation created with Mathematica
> to Powerpoint.
> If I export it as an animated GIF file, and subsequently
> import this file
> into Powerpoint, I only see the first frame of the animation
> but not the
> animation itself during the slide show.
<snippage>
> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
I get Mathematica animations to Powerpoint via bitmaps of each frame. I
assemble the movie using the program pjBMP2AVI. I typically access it
from Powerpoint using a hyperlink rather than direct import because I
have more control over the movie player -- Quicktime is sometimes more
useful than Media Player.
The sequence I use is essentially
Do[
plt = Show[...];
outfile = StringJoin[baseName, ToString[frameNumber], ".BMP"];
Export[outfile, plt, "BMP", various graphics options],
{jf, 1, numberOfFrames}
];
Regards,
Dave.
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