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PPT to Flash Examples

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 by gabe

17 Comments


The Demos section of the Articulate Web site is host to a couple basic yet very professional PPT to Flash examples; in the Customer Spotlight section of this blog you’ll find a whole array of some of the best examples of customer content we’ve seen; dig a little deeper in our Community Forums and you’ll find a wide range of creative, good-looking presentations that make the most of Articulate Presenter’s robust feature set and flexible customization options.

As you’ll see, our software is about more than just PowerPoint to Flash. Your imagination is the only limitation.

I’ve sifted through the forums to highlight a few of the more outstanding presentations I’ve seen. Below you’ll find a screenshot of each, along with a brief commentary about what makes it unique. Click on any screenshot to view the actual presentation.

This presentation features a mock debate between two animated characters — and an animated moderator — accompanied by audio created via text-to-speech software. The characters come to life via the presenter video feature.

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This presentation from BigInnovations is alive with interactive menu navigation, background music, and more.

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This presentation from St. Louis Sports Medicine integrates embedded Flash movies, and allows its users to download associated material via the Attachments feature.

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This presentation by Articulate MVP doofdaddy features elegant artwork with a Player design to match.

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This presentation on foxes, which includes background music and slide-based navigation links, was created by 10-year-old Emily. Articulate Presenter: So easy, even a 10-year-old can use it. Need I say more?

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If you hadn’t previously enjoyed this collection of presentations, I hope you had the chance to be inspired, get some smashing new ideas, or simply see what’s possible with Articulate Presenter.

Have something amazing or creative you’d like to share? Want to see your presentation featured here next time? Drop me a line or post a link in this forum thread: Examples of Articulate in Action.

Posted in Articulate Presenter, Customers

17 Responses to “PPT to Flash Examples”

I notice a reduction of quality in screen shots when the presentation converts to flash. Is this something others experience, and if so, has anyone determined a solution?

Steve  |  Posted at 04:06 pm on June 27th, 2006 |  #

Hi Steve-

There’s also been some discussion about quality loss on the forums. You can find one such thread here:

Images quality is dropped

Note that this is typically related either to the way Flash compresses images, or to the way you’re playing back the content (i.e., larger than the original image size).

Gabe Anderson  |  Posted at 04:33 pm on June 27th, 2006 |  #

Great work from BigInnovations! Never seen such a professional presentation done with articulate. Congratulation and thank you for showing this good example.

cubeweb  |  Posted at 10:14 am on June 28th, 2006 |  #

Does anyone have any experience with using Presenter 5 on an Apple (new Intel chip model)computer that is running Windows ‘bootcamp’? thanks
Mark

Mark Williams  |  Posted at 02:10 pm on July 7th, 2006 |  #

Any recommendations on a text-to-speech software?

Jim  |  Posted at 05:29 pm on July 8th, 2006 |  #

Hi Jim-

We don’t have any specific text-to-speech recommendations, but I’m sure that our fine members at the Articulate Community Forums will have some ideas for you.

Gabe Anderson  |  Posted at 10:25 am on July 10th, 2006 |  #

When will you support the Apple Mac-Intel User Community, which offers more multimedia functionality than with Apple QuickTime 7.1.2 than Windows Media Technologies.

By the way, I already have Presenter Studio 5, but had a couple of crashes with my PC, which made me switch over to a MAC.

Needless to say, I am not going back to a PC anytime soon.

Ronnie Gladney  |  Posted at 01:23 pm on July 11th, 2006 |  #

I’m also interested in info re Articulate’s support for it’s products running on MacIntel machines. This software is the only reason I would ever need a Windows PC, and I’ve not wanted to buy and support a PC just to run Articulate apps. Now that I can run WinXP on a Mac, I just need to know that the apps will run w/o any issues before diving in. Thanks!

Kevin Shepard  |  Posted at 07:17 pm on July 11th, 2006 |  #

Once a power point presentation is made into Articulate can that new program be copied onto a DVD?

If not, how can I use Atriculate in my home studies continuing education seminars?

Thank you

Steve  |  Posted at 11:34 pm on July 11th, 2006 |  #

Mac OS X support, for goodness’ sake! Flash+Quicktime+a stable, friendly OS make for a superior experience–not to mention that I’ve got all my real media tools (Final Cut Pro, etc.) running on my Mac, not a Windows box.

Any response? I’d buy a Mac version right now if it was available.

James Gill  |  Posted at 05:14 pm on July 13th, 2006 |  #

Just wondering if there was any way to synch video with the slide changes. I know you can do this audio files, but can you do this with video files? If so, how?

Emily  |  Posted at 05:20 pm on April 20th, 2007 |  #

Hi Emily-

Here’s a work-around for how to synch video across slides, which is what I assume you’re referring to?

Presenter Video Synching

You can also request a feature here.

gabe  |  Posted at 10:45 am on April 24th, 2007 |  #

Can anyone help me…how can i insert a .swf in PPT.
I do know there is an option to insert a Flash movie. iam not able to get the same dimensions in the console after publishing.
as well as the Slider is not working:(*

sunil  |  Posted at 04:35 pm on June 27th, 2007 |  #

Hi Sunil-

You’ll want to set the dimensions of your Flash movie in the application you used to create the .SWF. If you’re still running into any issues, please feel free to submit a case and we can help you out.

gabe  |  Posted at 11:57 am on June 29th, 2007 |  #

I really enjoyed the biginnovations presentation. One thing I noticed when clicking on one of the choices was how the presentation continued for several minutes with one piece of fluid narration. Is this one slide or was the narration turned into a playlist that played over several slides. It syncronized so well. I find that it seems obvious in my narration when I go from slide to slide and I liked the way this presentation did not have that effect. I know this is an older presentation but I’m hoping someone can comment on this or give me any tips.

Thanks,

Alanna

AMT  |  Posted at 07:20 am on April 12th, 2008 |  #

These do not work in Flash 10

Amy Fuchs  |  Posted at 01:23 pm on November 13th, 2008 |  #

Thanks, Amy. Yeah, unfortunately, most of these are on other servers, so we don’t have control over them. The one on our server does work, though.

The issue is related to the Flash Player 10 incompatibility with Presenter 5, so if you viewed these via Flash Player 9, they should work fine.

gabe  |  Posted at 10:36 am on November 17th, 2008 |  #

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