Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Create Dynamic Presentations / Add Motion Transitions
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Alright, if you listened to the first module of this entire tutorial, you might remember this. You might remember a slide that did this and then it did that. So how do we do that? How do we add that cool stuff, which, of course, you'll see how to add the motion within a slide here in just a bit. So again, how do we do that? Well, let's go to our slide here that we're building in VTC Presentation 1 and let's add a transition. We'll add some motion between slides in the presentation. Well, it's relatively simple to do. All you have to remember really is to use the inspector. So if it's not on your toolbar already or it's not up in the little palette, go ahead and launch it. So I'm going to have to use the chevron to launch the inspector and again, it will look like this. I'm going to go to the second icon in, the slide inspector and the slide inspector is where I'm going to add transitions. There's a button here or a tab for transitions. There's a tab for appearance. So I want to choose the transition tab. It'll give me my transition options. So, what the effect going to be? The effect is going to be blinds, color panes, confetti and what's nice here is that you're going to see a quick little preview of what it's going to look like. So there's color panes. There's the cube effect. There's the flip effect and so on and so on. So you can go through all these as you see fit. These are 3-D effects here, so the swoosh, whoa, and the 2-D effects have to do with stuff like that, droplet which I think is kind of effective. So you also get to decide, not only do you get to decide the transition, but you also get to decide the duration. So if you want that duration to be drawn out like that, that'll be a three-second transition. The direction, if you want to change it from left to right moving and then when does it happen? On a click or automatically? And if it happens automatically, here's the delay; how long it takes for an automatic transition to start. So that's pretty self-explanatory and at the end of the day, you get a transition that may just look like that. And again, that's to go out of one slide and into another slide. So I'll close the inspector and we've just added the transition. And notice here I've got a little button here or a little arrow, which is, you know, you can make this bigger if you want to just by moving some of the panes of this view, which I won't do right now, but if you'll notice here, when we go back to our, as we build the slide, show here, as we build our slides, we can see this little, tiny blue arrow in the lower right-hand corner. That just means simply that there is a transition, a movement out of this slide. It won't just go from one slide to another. That indeed there is some movement. So keep that in mind. You get little visual heads up, but also keep in mind that you can select multiple slides at once. Use the inspector and add a transition, let's do a flip transition, so if you want to add them to all of your slides all at once, go ahead and use those options and now you can see, if I go back here once again, that there's no little transition indicators at the bottom of each of these three slides.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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