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Your presentation is due tomorrow. You need it to make an impact.

Another deck full of bar charts won’t cut it. Your audience has sat through a hundred of those. Eye glaze. Some charting tools give you 18 categories and over 100 customization options. Powerful, if you have the time to tinker with all the switches and dials. Other tools were built for data teams with heavy subscription costs and server-based solutions.

Chart Animation was built for everyone else.

 

The hard part takes 2 minutes. The rest of the time is yours.

Pick your value(s). Pick your color(s). Use the sliders to match your data. Download. Two minutes, and the hardest, most technical part is done, The part that would have taken hours anywhere else.

What comes next is different. Import your chart into PowerPoint, Canva, or wherever your story needs to live, and spend your time on the part that actually matters: placing your labels exactly where the story needs them, sizing your legend to match your layout, choosing the font and color that makes your data speak. That’s not fighting software. That’s designing. And that time is entirely yours to spend on creative decisions, not technical ones.

Why finishing in PowerPoint or Canva is the whole point.

Most charting tools bake your labels and legends text directly into the exported image. That sounds convenient until you resize it and the text becomes unreadable, or you scale it up and it goes pixelated, or the font doesn’t match your brand and you can’t change it.

 

Chart Animation exports a large, high-resolution transparent PNG, sharp at any size, on any background or a high-resolution video. Drop it into PowerPoint, Canva, or your social media template and add your labels as native text. Crisp at every size. Perfectly matched to your brand. Sitting exactly where your layout needs them not where a chart wizard decided they should go.
The chart is the foundation. You build the story around it, your way.

 

The result?

Not an eye-glazing bar chart. A chart that looks like you spent hours getting it right. Two minutes well spent.
Make your data impossible to ignore.

I’m continually working to build charts that aren’t the default charts you use in Excel. If you don’t see your chart, drop me a note to tell me what I should build next!  support@chartanimation.com

Our charts are ready-to-go as is. However, if you want to add some fade in and timing to spice up your presentation, here are the steps to accomplish that.

Steps to create a visually engaging PowerPoint presentation with animated charts:

Step 1: Inserting Your First Chart Animation

  • Insert: Click on the “Insert” tab in your PowerPoint ribbon.
  • Video: Select “Video” from the ribbon (media tab).
  • Navigate: Find and select the first MP4 file you unzipped.
  • Resize: Click and drag the edges of the video to resize it to your desired size (e.g., 3 inches).

Step 2: Animating Your First Chart

  • Animation Pane: Open the Animation Pane by clicking on the “Animation” tab and then selecting “Animation Pane” ( within the Advanced Animation tab).
  •  Add Entrance Animation: 
    • Click on the chart.
    • Click “Add Animation”( within the Advanced Animation tab)
    • Select “Fade” as the entrance animation.
  • Adjust Animation Timing:
    • Click on the first animation (fade-in) within the animation pane.
    • In the Timing tab, increase the Duration to 1.0 second for a slower fade-in.
  • Add Play Animation
    • Click on the chart again.
    • Click “Add Animation.”
    • Select “Play” as the animation.
    • In the Timing tab, with the play animation line selected, set the Start option to “After Previous” and the Delay to 0.50 seconds.

Step 3: Inserting and Animating Your Second Video

  • Insert Second Video: Insert the second MP4 file using the same steps as the first video.
  • Adjust Second Video Animation:
    • In the Animation Pane, click on the second video’s animation.
    • Change the animation from “Play” to “Fade In.”
    • Set the Start option to “After Previous” and the Delay to 0.25 seconds

Step 4: Animating Your Second Chart

  • Add Play Animation:
    • Click on the second chart.
    • Click “Add Animation.”
    • Select “Play” as the animation.
    • Set the Start option to “After Previous” and the Delay to 1.50 seconds.
  • Remove Trigger (if it’s visible in the Animation Pane):
    • Right-click on the second chart’s animation and select “Remove Trigger.”

Now, when you start your slide, the first chart will fade in, then play. After the first chart animation finishes, the second chart will fade in and play.

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