[Tex/LaTex] Animation in Beamer

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I have a speech to present and would like to produce animations that I can put into my Beamer presentation (or gifs, but it seems that gifs aren't compatible in beamer). I realise this question has been asked multiple times, specifically here, here and here, and I apologise for asking the question again, but nothing is working for me. I have 2000 .png images stored in the same folder as my beamer presentation tex and pdf file. In my texworks file, it is set to pdflatex. I tried using the animate package

\documentclass[11pt,A4paper]{beamer}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{animate}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{center}
\animategraphics[autoplay,loop]{50}{myplot}{1}{200}
\end{center}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

but this just gives me a stationary picture that doesn't even fit in the slide. So what I'm asking is

  1. How do I get the animate function to work? I really need to have all 2000 slides run consecutively and quickly. I need to do this for a couple of problems and only have half an hour for my talk.
  2. How do I resize the image so that it fits on the slide?

Thankyou in advance.

Best Answer

(1)

\animategraphics[autoplay,loop]{50}{myplot}{1}{200}

Are the files contiguously numbered and named as myplot1.png, myplot2.png, ..., myplot200.png?

50 fps is far too much. Standard video formats have something between 25 and 30. Besides, Adobe Reader may not achieve this rate after all.

Thus:

\animategraphics[autoplay,loop,every=2]{25}{myplot}{1}{200}

(2) Resize the animation using the scale or width option. Put, e.g.,

\noindent\animategraphics[autoplay,loop,every=2,width=\linewidth]{25}{myplot}{1}{200}

with one empty line before and one after on a line of its own.

Or resample the images to a lower resolution using an external programme in order to make them fit without scaling. This may improve animation performance (achievable frame rate).

Most importantly: Use Adobe Reader for viewing and presenting.

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