My top three favourite transitions in Keynote are:
Magic Move Magic Move
and...
Magic Move.
And now that Powerpoint has the Morph transition, everyone can join in the fun.
Here we are in Apple Keynote
These men, women and non-binary characters that feature in the Development That Pays
channel trailer.
First job is to duplicate that slide.
For the opening scene I just want the development team visible
so I'm going to drag everything else upwards
And re-position these guys
Perfect.
For the next scene, I want to bring in the product owner and the lead developer
Duplicate the slide
Make some space
And then drag them down.
For the animation, I add a transition to the PREVIOUS slide.
The transition is - of course - the Magic Move transition.
If you’re working with PowerPoint, it’s the Morph Transition
Preview that.
It’s okay… but I think we can make it more interesting.
I'm going to crunch these guys up
And on the previous scene I'll move the text a little
bit to either side
Not bad.
Maybe move these guys apart a touch.
Looking good.
For the next scene I want to bring the business owner into picture.
Duplicate the slide.
Make some space
Move these guys just a little bit closer to their text.
Push these guys down as far as I dare.
Bring in Mr. business owner
okay so clearly I need to move these guys over a touch.
Bit of fine-tuning here.
Add the Magic Move transition
And a quick preview.
Let’s do one more thing to finish with a flourish.
Duplicate the slide
The effect I want: to have everything explode
out from the center
Drag the text a long way.
and the people not quite so far.
Add the Magic Move / Morph transition
Preview.
Boom. Very cool.
Here’s the whole thing in all its glory
And that’s how I do Magic Move transition, aka PowerPoint's Morph transition
Maybe you know a better way?
If so I’d LOVE to hear about it.
Let me know in the comments below.
If you’re into video production, you might be interested in this Cheat Sheet which details
everything I use to put together an episode of Development That Pays.
You’ll find a link to it on or around this video.
Thank you very much for watching.
I look forward to talking to you again very soon.