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The next topic,
Adding Sound, Video, and Animation Clips,
describes how to turn your presentation into a multimedia event with digitized sound, video clips, and animation files created with animation software.
To start
Adding Sound, Video, and Animation Clips,
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In slide show view, you show your presentation onscreen to test links between slides and see how they will look to an audience.
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When you show your presentation onscreen, you
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For more details about animating objects and about
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Automatic slide show is ideal for presentations that need to run unattended, like those you see at information kiosks or trade show booths.
When you choose to show a presentation automatically,
you can specify the number of seconds to pause between slides, to show the presentation once through or repeat it, and to show all slides or a range of slides.des.
You can pause by pressing the F2 key, and resume by pressing F2 again. You can cancel a slide show by pressing the
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When you show an onscreen presentation interactively, you decide when to advance to the next slide, so you can talk as long as necessary and answer your audience
s questions. You click the left mouse button to advance to the next slide and click the right mouse button to return to the previous slide.
You can also display the TwinClick palette by pressing and releasing both mouse buttons simultaneously. (This action is called twin-click.) You can use this palette to navigate in a slide show.
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You may have seen a presenter reveal bullets progressively, concealing subsequent points until the current one was thoroughly discussed. You can do that and more in Compel by defining bullet transitions.
You can hide bullets when a slide is first displayed and reveal each bullet by clicking the slide. You can dim the previous bullet when the next one appears, and draw further attention using a graphic such as an arrow or a pointing hand. And instead of just revealing a bullet in place, you can make it float in from
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Slide transitions can add visual interest to your presentations and let your audience know you
re moving to a new topic. A slide transition causes Compel to draw a slide on the screen in a special way
for example, by dissolving it into pixels, or by wiping it off the screen. The effect that you saw as this slide displayed was a slide transition.
You can define a slide transition for an individual slide or for all the slides in a presentation, and you can choose from several different transition effects.
The effect that you saw as this slide displayed is the Dissolve slide transition. When you leave this slide, you will see a Horizontal Split Out slide transition.
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You can animate objects in Compel, making them grow, shrink, move, disappear, or reappear. This simple type of animation is ideal for illustrating growth, expansion, and movement.
Animating an object couldn
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To start animating an object, you move it where you want the animation to begin and make it the size you want. Then you move the object where you want the animation to end, and make the object larger or smaller if you want it to grow or shrink.
You can also specify whether
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You name the animation so you can link it to an object for playback.
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To play the animation, you link it to an object on the slide and specify the event that triggers the animation.
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You can link the animation to the animated object itself, so that clicking the object causes it to move. Or you can link the animation to a different object.
Animation is only one of the effects you can add to a presentation. For more details, see the next topic,
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