Questions tagged [slideshow]
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How to extract all images from a PowerPoint presentation?
I have a PowerPoint presentation that is basically a slideshow. How can I extract all the images into a folder?
I've seen articles that direct you to save the presentation as HTML, but this file ...
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What is the shortcut key for starting the slideshow from the selected or active slide?
What is the shortcut key for starting the slideshow from the selected or active slide?
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Convert .png images into a .ppt presentation on Linux?
I've created a presentation as a series of .png images, one per slide. What is a good way to convert these into a .ppt (PowerPoint) that I can give to some audio-visual person? I'm entirely on ...
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ffmpeg slideshow with crossfade
I just figured out how to make a slideshow with crossfade. It's a two-step process. The first step reads the pictures with framerate 0.5 (which means 2 seconds for each picture), and produces an ...
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Can Windows 10's desktop slideshow use pictures from inside multiple subfolders?
It seems that Windows 10's desktop slideshow does not use pictures from inside subfolders. Is there a way to get it to use these pictures?
I have a Wallpapers folder with subfolders like Landscapes ...
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Free-flow Alternative to Powerpoint? [closed]
So I've been digging around the net trying to find a good set of alternatives to Powerpoint. Part of my interest is that I found one, Prezi, that I liked for it's free-form style. Part of the power ...
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Successfully concatenating multiple videos
My mission is to create videos out of old web slideshows. To start with I have jpegs and audio files that worked as Flash slideshows in an old system, structured such as this:
Audio structure
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What presentation software should I use for a five minute talk?
I am giving a lightning talk shortly and need to put together some slides. It is a technical talk about Perl documentation. I will be using a OS X machine to run the presentation software.
I would ...
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FFMPEG slideshow from images - only one frame shown
I am a beginner with ffmpeg.
I want to convert several images to a slideshow and came up with this command:
ffmpeg -y -r 1/5 -i *.jpg -r 25 output.mp4
Pretty straight forward. However, the video ...
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How to make a DVD movie of my photos?
I want to make a slide show out of my photos, burn this slide-show to a DVD as a movie that can be played on a regular old DVD player. Suprisingly, I am finding this difficult to achieve. All the ...
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Can you get a simultaneous animation and transition in PowerPoint 2016?
I have a presentation with a slide that, while it is in the process of crossfading to the next slide, I want to perform an animation. The animation and transition are of the same duration, so they ...
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Slowing down screensaver slideshow speed Windows 10
I am only given 3 options (Slow, Medium, Fast).
I need it to go slower than "Slow".
"Slow" is around 10 seconds, I'd like to have around 20s.
How is this achieved?
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generating video slideshow with avconv but maintaining image ratio
This may have already been answered.. but I'm struggling to search for it!
I have a set of images, of varying dimensions that I've created a 'fade affect' with, using imagemagicks convert command.
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Windows 7 wallpaper slideshow
Is there any way to modify the current active theme and change only [Slideshow] section?
UPD: Particularly I'm interested to change RssFeed value of currect theme.
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Fullscreen Photo/Video Slideshow App?
I have a folder that contains a lot of subfolders which include photos and/or videos. Is there any free application that would display them in a random slideshow? It's something I want to run on a PC ...
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Where is the Desktop Slideshow using RSS as the source, for Windows 7 RTM?
I've heard that you can have your desktop background change, based on a directory or location of photo's. Kewl.
This post says the location can be an RSS feed -> awesome!
A sample RSS feed could be ...
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Last slide in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow is always black
The last slide in my slideshow comes up as a black screen.
I've tried all of the recommendations in PowerPoint Help but it makes no difference which slide I put in the last position; it always comes ...
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Disable slide transitions on a particular element in PowerPoint
Basically I have the same title on two consecutive slides and I don't want the title to do a slide transition as it doesn't change. Is there any way to do this?
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OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress messing up master slides when saving in native (ODP) format
I want to have several master slides in my presentation so I created them in View ► Master ► Slide Master. The background images of my master slides are different (I added the images to each master ...
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What software is Hans Rosling using in this presentation?
In Hans Rosling's presentation on Human Development Trends he shows a scatter plot which explodes in to subsets of data. Does anyone know what software was used to create this presentation? I have ...
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FFmpeg slideshow with images of different dimensions
I have .jpg files like (img001.jpg), each of them with different dimensions. I also have an audio file .ogg. I wanna create slideshow with audio but I have a scaling problem, because the image ...
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How to mimic the "desktop slideshow" feature in Windows 7?
I've been using the Windows 7 RTM lately, and I love the new "desktop slideshow" feature that changes the desktop background at an interval. How can I mimic this behavior on other version of Windows? (...
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How can I have the PowerPoint Slide Sorter on my laptop's screen, and the full-screen slide on the projector?
I'll be doing a rather non-linear presentation (more of a Q&A) where I'll need to pull up arbitrary slides from a long presentation. The fastest way I can jump from one slide to another is to use ...
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How to create a video with slide transition from images using ffmpeg
Have two or three images, want to create slide left , slide up , slide right and slide down transitions using ffmpeg
Fade in and out i found from the link Create video with 5 images with fadeIn/out ...
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What does the IE "Display intranet sites in compatibility mode" option do? Why is it a default in IE?
What does the "Display intranet sites in compatibility mode" option in IE mean exactly? Why would it be the default?
I design and develop with Mac vs PC so I am not particularly savvy when it comes ...
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Best and affordable way for great slideshows on a HDTV [closed]
The need - to allow my non-technical family members to access our media library (our pictures and movie clips).
My setup is:
Upstairs desktop Windows Vista machine with 1TB of media files on it, ...
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Tool for creating a video from an audio file, video file and slides?
I'd like to create a video file from 3 sources mixed: audio file, video file and slides. Could you recommend me a tool? I must say I have no experience in video edition.
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Windows 10 lock screen slideshow not working
I've been trying to get this to work for the past couple of days. I've been following tutorials found at other places to see if I can fix it (restarting Windows Search, looking at indexed folders, etc....
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Slide show running on a secondary monitor pauses when focus changes
I have observed that if we change the focus (from the slide show) while running a slide show, which is set to advance automatically (in a secondary monitor) the slide show pauses automatically.
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How to convert single images into a video with blending transition?
I would like to convert a series of webcam images into an animation/film/movie/video.
Because there is a lot of motion between images, I want a fading/blending transition between images.
Many Windows ...
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Good Slideshow DVD programs? [closed]
I want to burn a bunch of pictures to a DVD slideshow. However, Google reveals that there are tons of software programs that claim to do this. Can anyone recommend one of them without me having to ...
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Remotely Controlling Picture Slideshows From One Central Location to Thirty Remote Locations
I work for a company that has 30 convenience store locations and we're looking to have display screens in all the stores that play the same content. We want to be able to remotely control the content ...
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Rehearse slideshow and record audio and speaker with webcam
Using my MacBook Pro unibody 2008 and OS X Lion, I am rehearsing a slideshow with PowerPoint for Mac 2011.
In some video tutorials I have seen how people record their voice, their face (using the ...
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Jupyter Slideshow in VSCode
I am trying to edit and present a slideshow inside of VSCode using Jupyter Notebooks (on a Windows 11 computer). I can make Jupyter notebooks, and I have the Jupyter Slide Show extension installed in ...
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What causes windows to stop using all selected photos in desktop slideshow
I have my Windows 7 desktop set to run a slideshow (shuffle turned on) with the contents of a folder that currently contains 148 photos. The problem is that every now and then, it stops cycling ...
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Google Reader Play Alternatives with Slideshow [closed]
Are there any other RSS Readers featuring a Slideshow through the articles than Google Reader Play?
Can be Desktop App, Browser Plugin, iOS App, etc. I'd rather prefer a non-webapp as I'd like to ...
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How To Make A Random Slideshow Through Folders and Subfolders
I use FastStone Image Viewer to manage and view the images on my Windows 10 PC. It can slideshow images in random order within a specific folder. However, if the images are scattered through more than ...
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Windows 8: Different Themes or Different Wallpaper Slideshows for Multiple Monitors
I know I can assign different wallpaper for each monitor that is connected to my computer in Windows 8(by right clicking and selecting "set for monitor 1,2,etc"), but I don't know how to assign ...
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PowerPoint 2010 not showing slides full screen
Recently I was showing a presentation in PP 2010 when I noticed that the slides were no longer showing full screen (either on my laptop or on the projector), but had wide black margins each side.
It ...
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How to create a zooming effect in a slideshow presentation?
I would like to create a presentation, similar to Power Point slides, but with a Google Maps feature. When you zoom in in Google Maps, the content becomes more detailed. That's exactly what I need for ...
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using Jekyll to generate HTML-based slideshow presentations from Markdown source?
I want to create slick HTML-based slideshows to use for giving presentations. I've found a couple that I like, such as scrolldeck.js.
Basically it's a static site within a folder, i.e. a single ...
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slideshow on extra monitor?
I'm looking for a slideshow style application for windows that I can apply to one monitor on a multi-monitor system. I want to simulate it being a photo frame, in rotating pictures etc. I also need ...
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How to full screen a PDF having more than one slide per page
The problem I'm facing is that I have PDFs that are made of 4 slides per page, when I try to full screen it, I have to zoom in the upper-left, upper-right corners in order to view the wanted slide..
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Slide show in dual monitor system?
I have heard about using dual monitors in PC so that you can work smoothly. I would like to use it in a function where I will be connecting a projector to a Windows laptop (Win 7 or later) and show a ...
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MS Power Point 2003: How to play all the slides quickly one after another - just like in a movie?
I have a lot of slides in my PowerPoint application and they all are just like film frames of one motion film, so I want to play back them all very quickly - is it possible in Power Point?
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Two different slide designs in a single PowerPoint presentation
Is it even possible to do that? If so, what's the easiest way to achieve this?
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How can I go to the next slide of a PDF opened in Chrome, so that the next slide takes the entire vertical space of the screen?
I opened a PDF containing slides in Chrome. How can I go to the next slide, so that the next slide takes the entire vertical space of the screen?
Example of a slide that takes the entire vertical ...
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Creating sub slides in presentation file?
I have to describe my idea with a presentation file (pptx). My presentation cannot exceed 20 slides, but I want to add some extra slides with some details and show them to listeners only if they need ...
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Windows 8 wallpaper slideshow simply does not work - Fresh Install
this has been driving me crazy for the past few days, I have a fresh and clean install of Windows 8 Pro 64Bit (Activated - Not upgrade).
I have about 50 JPEG wallpapers that I want to set as a ...
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Solutions to create HTML based slide shows
What solutions are available to create HTML-based slides?
A while ago I saw a demo of an fantasy solution that transition between slides was like some image on the table a camera zoom out and zoom in ...
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