I’d love to see enabled import of 2D Cartoons in GIF format.
Use of animated GIF’s not only helps break the monotony, but can be a very effective learning tool - for instance to explain the steps of a complex procedures - much better than a piece of text or even a picture. It is the next best thing to attending a workshop and seeing a demonstrator perform the steps /watching a video, only much cheaper/easier to make.
This is great news!
Another feature on my wish list is about retaining powerpoint animations, triggers and audio after import.
Do you have any plans regarding this?
You can roll over/out another object (for example, a shape) to control the frame of an imported video/gif, but not directly roll over/out the video/gif itself.
To go to image Y when rolling out a shape, you can use the Show Object action in the On Rollout event to navigate to it under the condition that the image Y is hidden initially (right-click the image > Initially Hidden); or you can use the Go to Slide action if the image is on a different slide.
For example:
