Animating Slide Objects While Media is Playing in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Animate any object in PowerPoint 2013 while a media clip on the same slide is still playing.
Author:Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: Microsoft PowerPoint 2013
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 and higher
You have a 5-minute video or audio clip playing on your slide. And exactly after the clip has played for 30 seconds, you want some text to appear
superimposed over the video clip. Alternatively, you may want to show other objects on the slide while your audio clip is playing. All this while, the
original audio or video clip should continue playing. How do you achieve this result?
It might seem difficult, but you can end up with these results quite easily using the Trigger Animation option. These Trigger animations typically
happen as a result of a click on some other slide object -- but in PowerPoint 2013, you can now cause Trigger animations to also happen on media
playback through a Bookmark.
Follow these steps to learn more -- while we have used a video clip in this walkthrough, you can achieve the same results with an audio clip:
Select the video clip on your slide, or if you want to start from the beginning, launch
PowerPoint 2013 -- within the
Presentation Gallery that shows up by default, select the
Blank Presentation or any other template / Theme. This opens up a new presentation with a blank slide. Thereafter, optionally
change the slide layout to Blank,
insert a video clip and select it.
Then, add a Bookmark to the selected video clip as required.
In Figure 1 below, you can see that we have selected a video that already has a Bookmark added (notice the yellow dot in the Player
bar below the video clip) -- additionally, the slide also has a Text Box, containing the words "Wildlife" -- this has been placed over the
video clip. Do note that no animation has been added to this Text Box yet.
Figure 1: A slide with a video clip and a Text Box
Now you can optionally select the video clip. Then click the Video Tools Playback tab of the
Ribbon, and select the Automatically option within the
Start drop-down list, as shown in Figure 2, below. This will ensure that your video starts playing as soon as you
play the slide.
Figure 2: Play your video clip automatically
Now, select the Text Box, and add an animation – we
added an Entrance animation to this Text Box -- we
added a Wheel animation (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: Text box selected and animated
Now locate the Advanced Animation group within the Animation tab of the Ribbon, and click the
Trigger button to bring up a menu as shown in Figure 4, below. Choose the On Bookmark |
Bookmark 1 option, as shown in Figure 4 to make the selected Text Box animate while the video is playing through
Bookmark 1. If you have more than one Bookmark, you can choose any Bookmark you want.
Figure 4: Trigger animation set to happen
Note: Do you have several Bookmarks in your video or audio clip? You can make different Trigger animations happen via these multiple
Bookmarks!
Save your presentation and play it. You can see the wheel animation on the Text Box when the bookmarked point in the video is playing, as shown in
Figure 5.
These “pushpin” graphics are already placed in PowerPoint slides. Just copy them and paste within your slides to create a look that makes a picture, shape, or anything else appear as if it has been pushed onto a surface, board, or wall with a pin!
These ready-made pushpins are already within PowerPoint slides, and have been provided in five colors. Just copy them and paste them on your slides.