So if you work on presentations you know that one of the challenges is getting good graphics
to go with the words. When you're putting together a presentation like this one you
need to find something to go here. Right. A picture. So you may look through clipart
selections and all sorts of things. One of the things that you can use, but a lot of
people don't realize, is GIFs or Gifs if you prefer. Of course these animated little graphics
are now used throughout Messaging and Facebook and everything and people use them to respond
to things with emotion. You can find plenty of free stuff online.
But what a lot of people don't know is you can drag and drop those into Keynote and use
them. So let's go ahead and take a look here. I'm going to go look at the site GIPHY, or
Giphy, which is just basically a huge archive of all sorts of different GIFs and you can
just search for things. So just like with searching any clipart collection you can,
of course, search for something that fits what you are talking about. So this is talking
about planning your best route for traffic so let's search for traffic.
So actually traffic jam search here brings all sorts of images up and we could basically
just drag and drop any one of these that looks good into it. Let's go ahead and use this
one here and I'm going to drag it. You can drag it right into the little place holder
here. Now that I've got it in there I can go to the Format sidebar here and go to Movie
and I can set some things. I can set it to Loop. I can set it to Start Movie on Click
or not. I can have it loop back and forth or continuous or not loop at all. I can also
trim it. So if there's something at the beginning or end that I don't want to see I can cut
that out without having to edit the video.
So when I play this you can see since I didn't have it set to click it just plays automatically.
So I get a nice animated graphic. Now the legality of using graphics you find online
is a whole other story. But I'm going to assume that you're going to take care of that or
use public domain things or maybe you're just presenting this for fun and you don't care
about the legalities of it.
Let's go and look at some others. So you don't have to have the place holder there at all.
You can just have a blank slide like that and it will still work. So let's go back to
Safari here and I have another tab where I did a search for sleep. So you can find something
cute here having to do with sleep. That's a good one right there. So we'll go into that.
There's that image. I can drag that in and that inserts just fine as well. I can scale
it up a little bit to fit. Maybe this will be Don't Repeat and Start Right Away. So when
you get to this slide you just get this and then it freezes on the last frame. I can even
customize the last frame if I want by trimming here.
Then here's the last one here. We can go in and say do a search for paperwork. You know
you can grab a n animated GIF that has some fun paperwork stuff. Here we go. That's a
good one. You can drag that in to this area as well. So it's real easy to be able to use
animated GIFs in your presentations. They certainly add a lot more flare. A lot of people
just don't realize that you can use them. So go ahead and drag and drop and place them
inside. They just appear in these cool videos that you can now work with inside of Keynote.