October 19, 2016 geek tech Animated / looping images inside Prezi Prezi, thankfully, still supports animations, but not as we now know and love them. With one simple step, however, you can insert animated gifs and take other short movies and insert them into your Prezi presentation to liven them up. Although Prezi does not support animated gifs (yet, hint, hint) you can easily convert these to Flash swf format files which will loop indefinitely in a Prezi. UPDATE: Unfortunately, they dropped support for adding SWF into the latest Prezi Classic directly, so you might want to divert to this page: https://www.frsimon.uk/animations-using-swf-inside-latest-prezi-classic/ to see the latest update of this saga. Here is how you do it. Find your animated gif through Google Images Enter a search term and then select “Search Tools” and under “Type” select “Animated” This will limit the search to images that are moving. Download that image (Right-Click / Save As…) Visit the excellent Convertio online converter, drag and drop the downloaded file onto the page and select as output “Video/SWF” Add as many files as you like and then convert them. There is a daily limit, but I can’t imagine you would exceed this for this purpose. Now in Prezi, you can drag and drop the new SWF file, or Insert it as a File. You can also insert it as a Background image, which is particularly good as an opener. I would use it sparingly, especially as some animated gifts move very fast, but a gentle animation like the one above, or a subtle illustration can be effective. Beyond that, you can convert a (very) short and small movie from your video editing package into an swf. You can do this directly in some packages (NCH VideoPad) or export it from iMovies / Windows Movie Maker and convert it via Convertio. This could be, I imagine, a moving graph, or a quick clip. Have fun. By spr
6 Comments Robb Sutherland (@changingworship) Posted on 12:32 pm - October 19, 2016 Looks great. Get a child doing the sign of the cross 😉 Reply Bob Posted on 7:31 pm - May 30, 2019 This is PRECISELY what I needed in my life. My students will thank you. Reply danielle Posted on 2:24 am - June 7, 2019 this didn’t because it said that it harmful to my computer. Any ways that this does work without dodgy stuff? Reply spr Posted on 11:29 am - June 8, 2019 It sounds like you have the highest level of security set. SWF is Flash Video, and some people think Flash in inherently unsafe. It’s just a video format, and it is supported inside Prezi, so it’s fine. I just take gifs and convert them using NCH VideoPad and they work perfectly. Reply sabrina Posted on 4:51 am - September 27, 2019 prezi is simply not letting me upload swf files. there simply isn’t an upload file option only images and videos and both don’t support swf can you help Reply spr Posted on 5:46 am - September 27, 2019 See my other post: https://www.frsimon.uk/animations-using-swf-inside-latest-prezi-classic/ Under Insert, select “Insert from File” – swfs can be selected from there. If for any reason, they do not show, select from the dropdown file type “All Files”. Remember you need to import these in one of the older versions of flash and then import that (temporary) prezi into the current version of Prezi Classic. Reply
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