I think it is pretty cool that for the next 200+ days (at time of writing) that Gif will always be within one or two minutes of an actual countdown timer! If the GIF doesn't load you can view an old version of the GIF here. WordPress did not like embedding an image of 134MB seemingly, so you’ll have to be content with the two above!įor better or worse, I use PowerPoint just about every day and blog often once a week on average, so I’m glad I know these two tips to help with timely presentations and easy media creation.The GIF below is counting down to the 3rd January 2022 at 09:00. I created the same video three times, compressing it to 10 seconds in length and using the small / medium / large file size compressions: Small GIF – 9.8MB Medium GIF – 37.7MB Large GIF – 134MB For reference, the original video was 13 seconds long (so I ‘speed it up slightly’ and was only 11.8MB in size. I tested this with a short video I made of a hike to Foggy Peak I completed recently and I will share the results with you below. Often, however, you’re wanting a GIF of a video media file and this can be quite a different thing altogether to make these quickly and compress to a file size that is acceptable for load times. I was pleased, therefore, when I came across this Office Insider article showing that since late 2019 the ability to export slides as GIF inside PowerPoint could achieve what I wanted! There is also the official Office Support article to assist, and I gave this ago to create the above and it worked seamlessly. I’ve occasionally used some of the free, online GIF makers on the web, but they typically brand your image with their watermark – something I generally prefer to avoid if I can. Of course, you can create a YouTube Video and embed, but often a short, animated image is a quicker way to get the point across – to wit, the GIF above showing my PowerPoint visualisation. When you write a lot of blogs, animated GIF can often be your friend. If you’re wanting to give this a go, then I’ve uploaded my PPTX file that you can get a copy of and tweak the settings here: Set the animation on the top circle to Wheel and then choose your time preference. Problem solved (albeit, requiring delving into sub menus of PowerPoint! Howard also offered a great suggestion for the second timer visualisation:Īnother nice way to do it is to create 2 circles the same size (like a clock face) and place them on top of each other. For example, if you wanted the slide indicator to show for 5mins then you’d choose 300 seconds:
Select the “Timing” tab that opens and then you have the “Duration” that you can set any value you wish.Find the object in the Animation Pane that you’re animating and then from the drop down arrow to the right, choose “Effect Options”.Open the “animation pane” (this was the key I was missing).Add the wipe animation (from left) under the effect options.Add the rectangle across the top of your slide in the colour of your choosing (red in my instance).The trick, it turns out, is to not use the ribbon for animation settings, but to instead drill down: Whilst encouraging people to keep to 1 minute per slide might be a good thing in many contexts, the reality is this would be too short.įortunately, I had recently attended a work presentation from Howard Gold from Three Cat Presentations and I pinged him asking if he knew any work arounds. The problem I encountered was that the ribbon only shows a maximum of 59 seconds for an animation to occur. Both of these were easily achieved using simple animation that I got the idea from on this post. As you can see in the above GIF, the PowerPoint Side has two visual cues – a timer progress bar across the top of the slide and a countdown ‘clock’ at the bottom right.
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