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Create animated slideshow in InDesign?

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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

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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

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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

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Hi Macuser

It would be useful feedback if you let us know what you used in the end and, from the various suggestions, how you decided what to use.

Best wishes,

Derek

My low budget option will likely be exporting the slides as jpg from InDesign, importing into Premiere, adding basic transitions and timing, and then exporting as mp4.

If budget allows, I will likely export the slides as eps from InDesign, import into After Effects (to use what I can), rebuild what I need to, create the animations and export as mp4.

Thank you for your helpful and level-headed comments, Derek.

Derek Cross

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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

Community Expert

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

Community Expert

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

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macuser2000Author

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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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