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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 format is not in the PowerPoint 2010. Any ideas?
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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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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 intermediate video with framerate 2. That means each…
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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 Linux, with no Windows or Mac software available. (Or…
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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 and Architecture. The subfolders have pictures in…
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Free-flow Alternative to Powerpoint?

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 of it was that I can zoom out and select any part…
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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 my_audio_1.mp3 (this file is a 3 second mp3 of…
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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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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 seems like only one frame long (it is too fast to…
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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 programs I've seen want to burn either onto a CD or…
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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 like something that is minimalistic easy to…
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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 should complete at the same time. I attempted to…
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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. convert *.jpg -delay 20 -morph 20…
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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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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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