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Hi all, I've been using Opus for a couple of years now, it's great - but I kind of think I've missed something. It's a bit of a noob question but here goes, I'm working on a presentation for our school foyer. I have a slow fade on exit on one slide and a slow fade in on show of the next slide. At the moment it fades to the background colour and then fades up to the next slide. Is there a way to get each slide to 'dissolve' into the next smoothly or is this just the way Opus works?

I have read the manual and searched the boards, but I'm not sure of the answer.

Kind regards, Kurt.

I think it depends on what your content is, and what you have going-on on the Page.

Here, does "slide" equal "Opus Page"? Or do you mean individual images stacked in an Opus Slideshow object?

There are many ways to accomplish something in Opus. For example, you say 'slow Fade'... that could be an animation. Or it can be implemented in an object's Transition properties. (part of Properties dialogue). There is also Synchronize to End, and related options -- something I have not looked into, and admittedly don't understand. But I suspect that may be useful if your "slides" were all on the same Page.

It all depends if you have other effects and animations on Page, or any User interaction planned. If not, try Slideshow and try using OnShow and OnHide Transitions.

Hi Lar_123, sorry I should have been clearer, I keep telling people it's not Powerpoint , yes I mean between Opus pages within a chapter, I have many pages the same with subtle differences, and I'm using the Transition fade in and out. Thus where I would hope to be a small change there is a glaring fade to the publication background colour.

It's not a problem, I was just wondering if I had missed a fundamental learning point.

Kind regards, Kurt

Hi Kurt,

You need to use a template. On this page add the key background elements that aren't going to change. This make it appear as the unique elements are transitioning between pages.

Mack

Hi Mackavi, thanks for that, I will look up templates!

Cheers all, Kurt

If I understand properly what you want then you have too many transitions. You've set a "page off" transition and a "page on" transition so that's exactly what you are getting. One page is disappearing before the new transition starts.

To get a "cross-fade" you simply want to fade in the new page over the old one. Delete the "page off" transition and you should get what you are looking for.

Paul

Fantastic Paul, thanks. I think that is what I have ended up with at the moment as it happens (my project was too big to modify with templates at this stage).

Kind regards to all, Kurt.

That'll teach me to answer a question when I should be asleep!

As you'd expect, Paul's spot on, a simple page on transition works beautifully.

Mack

Kurt,
If we're talking Master Page, then it might be easy (if you do not already have complex nesting of MPs or use multiple/different MPs).

After you create a Master Page, simple select all Page objects in the Organizer Tree, type Ctrl-R (edit Properties) -- and make the change to use the Master Page. It gets applied to all selected.

You should be able to use the same method to set your Page object Transistions -- select all Pages and then modify the Transitions Tab.

Amazing program, that Opus.

Spot on, thanks for the feedback.

Cheers, Kurt