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macuser2000
Inspiring
August 19, 2021
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Create animated slideshow in InDesign?

  • August 19, 2021
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I have an eight page InDesign file.

I have animated some of the elements using InDesign animate options.

Can I run this as a continous, looping slideshow using Publish Online?

 

If not, what are my options? I have Adobe Creative Suite. What is the best why to accomplish this? Especially considering I've already created what I want in InDesign. 

 

 

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Correct answer Derek Cross

An eight page animation, as you describe, could easily be built in After Effects and exported as a short video for (say) social media.

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macuser2000Author
Inspiring
August 20, 2021

I've created a two page sample. I want to run this in a loop, on a screen at a tradeshow. The animations will make it more like a continous video rather than seperate slides.

 

Which Creative Cloud product is best for this?

 

And which Creative Cloud product is the best option for using my InDesign file?

BobLevine
BobLevine
Community Expert
August 20, 2021

What device will this run on? If it's on Windows device I would recomend looking into in5 to create a self contained HTML presentation. You can create a autorun slideshow with a multistate object on a single page if you'd like.

That will also work on a Mac but it won't work on an iPad.

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macuser2000Author
Inspiring
August 20, 2021
That, despite your little LOL at the end is unhelpful at best and ignorant at worst.

Powerpoint is most certainly, not garbage and is the right tool for many jobs and may very well be the right one for this job.

Sorry if it sounded ignorant but PowerPoint is terrible with text, spacing, etc. 

 

The Adobe software is leaps and bounds superior.

 

And this is an Adobe forum so I didn't feel out of line critizing Microsoft. 

Derek Cross
Derek CrossCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 20, 2021

An eight page animation, as you describe, could easily be built in After Effects and exported as a short video for (say) social media.

Lukas Engqvist
Lukas Engqvist
Community Expert
August 20, 2021

In many cases the simplest is to do a screen recording so of it looping once and then loop the movie. Size it up to the scale you want to optimise before recording. If you need ti as a gif then you can process the recording with media encoder, but it may be a large file.

    BobLevine
    BobLevine
    Community Expert
    August 20, 2021

    Since you've already created it, publish it and give us a link to look at.

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    macuser2000Author
    Inspiring
    August 20, 2021
    Can’t do that. It’s for a client.

    It’s text, solid colour backgrounds, logos and photos. They just fly in and then out and are replaced with others.

    What do others use to do this? Premiere? After Affects? Animate?
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