| Jacquelin Vanderwood February 1, 2001 Beatware's PowerMovie is used as a quick and easy powerful plug-in for PowerPoint. It is an effective, useful, and creative way to make those "eye catching" stills and animated presentation inserts in a jiffy. PowerMovie comes complete with a wide variety of templates for banners, squares, videos, and columns. Each item comes with a myriad of choices that will enhance your project. Some of those options include whether you want the item to be animated or a still image, with or without text and the capability to change the font as well as the size, whether you want a bitmap or not, 3D text, and a 3D object, subtexts, as well as images. Other choices include fly ins, scrolling, fade ins, growing and shrinking, dissolves. You can tell the program to make these items fly in from the top, bottom, left or right. Other effects include blur, shadow, and emboss. To choose a template, you just scroll down the list, click on the one you like and press Next. What can be easier than that? Depending on the item you are creating, you are given the freedom to change background colors, gradient styles, change duration plus many other options. When you have completed all the tasks, select to build a BMP (still image), animated GIF, AVI video, or in Windows Media format. Hit Build Preview to see what you have achieved, and if you want to make changes, you can go back by clicking the Back button. Press Finish, save it, and select the area in your PowerPoint presentation that you would like the PowerMovie item to reside at. At this point you can resize and move the newly created graphic to fit into a specific area. This program is convenient, easy to learn and makes creating power packed presentations a breeze. Once you have completed creating your item of choice and have imported it into your PowerPoint presentation, you can access Custom Animation through the Slide Show dropdown option and edit each individual item in a variety of ways. 
   
This is a very good and handy program to own. System Requirements Copyright 2001, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved |
