Results: Presenting OrcaFlex results

OrcaFlex users often wish to show their OrcaFlex results in a slide presentation prepared using a presentation program such as Microsoft PowerPoint. Here are some tips on how this can be done.

Graphs

Graphs can be transferred from OrcaFlex to presentation programs by simple copy + paste.

Note:

In PowerPoint, instead of using paste, it is better to use paste special and then select the enhanced metafile format. This gives better resolution than the default paste action.

Replays

Replays can be transferred by exporting to an AVI file and then importing that video clip file into the presentation program.

An XVID encoded AVI file (and possibly other codecs) added to Microsoft PowerPoint slides as a movie object may not play correctly (displaying a blank screen on replay, or the video only appearing in full screen mode). To avoid these problems, an XVID AVI file needs to be inserted as a video clip object. This can be done in two ways:

drag and drop the AVI file onto the PowerPoint slide, or
from the PowerPoint menu, choose Insert | Object. Select 'create from file' and browse to your file (do not select the 'link' option).

To set options such as auto repeat, right-click on the image in the slide, then select Video clip object | Open, this displays the video player window and menus.

The video clip object links to the AVI file (it is not embedded within PowerPoint) so the file location needs to be accessible when running the presentation. The computer running the presentation must also have the XVID codec installed.

Note:

Resizing video clips (after pasting into your presentation) will introduce aliasing (re-digitisation errors) so it is best to set the OrcaFlex 3D view window to the required size before you export the video.