I will share with you a few easy suggestions first to add a timer to your PowerPoint presentation. In this article, we shall do a deep dive on this subject. You can also create your own timer using the animation feature within PowerPoint using the “Fly out” or “Wheel” animation depending on the type of timer you want to add in PowerPoint. To insert a timer in PowerPoint, you can use add-ins such as “Easy Timer”, “Breaktime”, or “Slice Timer”. Whatever the case may be, the important question is – how to insert a timer in PowerPoint? Likewise, you can also add a timer before the first slide to let your audience know when the presentation will start! There are many use cases for it for instance when you are conducting a workshop, you may want to insert a timer for break time. WordPress did not like embedding an image of 134MB seemingly, so you’ll have to be content with the two above!įor better or worse, I use PowerPoint just about every day and blog often once a week on average, so I’m glad I know these two tips to help with timely presentations and easy media creation.Having a timer in your PowerPoint presentation can be extremely useful. I created the same video three times, compressing it to 10 seconds in length and using the small / medium / large file size compressions: Small GIF – 9.8MB Medium GIF – 37.7MB Large GIF – 134MB ![]() For reference, the original video was 13 seconds long (so I ‘speed it up slightly’ and was only 11.8MB in size. I tested this with a short video I made of a hike to Foggy Peak I completed recently and I will share the results with you below. Often, however, you’re wanting a GIF of a video media file and this can be quite a different thing altogether to make these quickly and compress to a file size that is acceptable for load times. I was pleased, therefore, when I came across this Office Insider article showing that since late 2019 the ability to export slides as GIF inside PowerPoint could achieve what I wanted! There is also the official Office Support article to assist, and I gave this ago to create the above and it worked seamlessly. I’ve occasionally used some of the free, online GIF makers on the web, but they typically brand your image with their watermark – something I generally prefer to avoid if I can. Of course, you can create a YouTube Video and embed, but often a short, animated image is a quicker way to get the point across – to wit, the GIF above showing my PowerPoint visualisation. When you write a lot of blogs, animated GIF can often be your friend. If you’re wanting to give this a go, then I’ve uploaded my PPTX file that you can get a copy of and tweak the settings here: Set the animation on the top circle to Wheel and then choose your time preference. Problem solved (albeit, requiring delving into sub menus of PowerPoint! Howard also offered a great suggestion for the second timer visualisation:Īnother nice way to do it is to create 2 circles the same size (like a clock face) and place them on top of each other. For example, if you wanted the slide indicator to show for 5mins then you’d choose 300 seconds:
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