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The “Shimmer” effect in Keynote uses white sparkles. How can I change them to red sparkles?

I would like to modify one of the keynote standard animations to have the white sparkles be red. Below is an example of what I'm referring to. I'd like to have the white sparkels to be red in color. ...
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other window show first when switch desktop

When switching desktop with four finger sliding, it seems windows that are assigned to all desktop appear first for a second and then shows the last focused window. Is it possible to skip the showing ...
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How to enable animated effects when texting from iphone 8 running 16.4?

When I was using IOS 15.6 on my iphone 8, whenever I sent "happy birthday" or "congrats" or "happy new year" to another iphone user, it showed balloons or fireworks on my ...
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How to remove dock hiding animation?

I'm aware of the command How can I make auto-hide/show for the dock faster? however, I want to be able to use only the command "opt+cmd+d" to hide or show the dock. The reason for this is ...
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Remove animation or fades completely when switching spaces/desktops [duplicate]

Edit: not sure what to add here other than the fact that all the answers from the other questions don't work I am trying to disable the animation played when I switch between desktops/spaces because ...
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Shortcuts: Sort pictures before handing them to Shortcut to make GIF (iOS / macOS)

I am using Shortcuts to make GIFs from the sharing menu - which works really great! Sadly I am not able to define in which order the images will be compiled to the GIF. Is there a way? I haven't found ...
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Turn off Chrome new window animation

I searched around on google and did find one answer but it seemed as that only worked for Ubuntu. I'm trying to disable the "maximize" effect of chrome when opening a new window. Chrome is ...
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Flip shapes in Keynote presentations over 45degree axes

How can I flip a rhombus over one of its sides? I can make it by magic tool but is there another way to do it?
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How to change the background colour of the flip transition in Keynote?

When I try to use transition in Keynote, the slide default color keynote transit to or the slide in the background of transition is always black: Can I change this color?
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Is it possible to transition between Keynote slides after an object animation finishes?

I'm using Keynote 12.0 and I want to start a slide transition immediately after an object animation. Is it possible?
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Is it possible to completely remove "move between space" animations?

Is it possible to completely remove any "move between spaces" animation? I've tried toggling "Reduce Motion", but the animation is just replaced by a fade out. This makes it ...
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Modern 3D Animation Software

Back in the day I used Adobe Illustrator to make a cross section of an item. I then imported it into some other app that I could rotate that profile around its vertical axis, to get a shape. I then ...
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Can you COMPLETELY disable desktop switching animation on macOS?

I reduced animation and transition in macOS but not completely disabled As some people already discussed, one can "reduce motion" in accessibility settings, use defaults write to "...
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Mojave: Is there a way to stop or delay the sorting of items in the finder using list or column view?

Looooooong time Mac user. I have a particular older system I use for cataloging items. I get a folder of 50+ items, then have to manually rename each item. Batch renaming isn't useful and would ...
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How to blur an image halfway/not fully in keynote?

I'm making a keynote presentation (animation, really) where there's an image on the slide. Next, after a few seconds, some text moves in on top of the image, and what I want is for that image to ...
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Complex Appear In Keynote Presentation

In my presentation, I have a slide with six lines. I'm trying to set it up so lines 1 and 6 will appear, then 2 and 5, and finally 3 and 4. I know I could throw a box over them and have the boxes ...
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Show videos, animations or text in Mac's touchbar

Given that the mac's touchbar is an actual display would it be possible to do things like display arbitrary text, a video or an animation in the touchbar? For example, what would it take to display a ...
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Are iOS 14 widgets animated / distracting?

I'm concerned about updating to iOS 14 mainly because widgets have moved from their own screen onto the home screen. I get reminded of Windows 10 active tiles which just don't know when to stop moving....
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How can I make all animations instant?

How do I get rid of these kinds of animations: Switching spaces Minimising windows Entering Mission Control Exiting Mission Control in macOS Catalina 10.15?
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skip full-screen animation in Catalina and Big Sur

In macOS 10.15.4+, when you make a window fullscreen, an animation about a second long zooms the window to the new size, and then the window rerenders (for example, a web browser or a Terminal). Can ...
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"Reduce motion" is not working when option "Displays have separate Spaces" is unchecked

has anyone answer to this please ? The thing is, when I check "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission control settings, Reduce motion kicks in and it works....but when I want to have "one big ...
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How do you disable or speed up the character/emoji keyboard animation?

Context: By default on macOS, you can press cmd + control + space to bring up the character keyboard (more commonly known as the emoji keyboard). Before the keyboard pops up, there is a short delay ...
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How can I disbale login animations in macOS?

How can I disable the hideously irritating 'rolling cube' animation when logging in? When I switch from one user account to another, at first it appears to switch instantly to the selected user, but ...
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How to turn off all animations?

I wish to turn off all animations in macOS. I'm following the steps provided in the answers to How to turn off all animations on OS X. I wish to turn off animations on my MacBook Pro running macOS ...
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Blocking animated gifs in Safari

I am trying to block animated gifts in Safari. I installed Deanimator, but it is dated and it does not always work. I also searched for Saft, but it seems this extension was abandoned. Does anyone ...
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How to remove Touchbar animations?

On the 2016/2017 MacBook Pro's the Touchbar animations are slow. After a little while I've become used to the keyboard and Touchbar. But the one thing I would like to speed up is the transitions. Say ...
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Remove animation/delay on Command+Tab

When switching to a full-screen app on a different space there is a noticeable delay (and jerkiness) with the animation during which further presses of ⌘+Tab have no effect. This continues for a ...
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Any way to make a transparent Keynote background?

Longtime Keynote user, and I'm starting to turn many of my Keynotes into movies that I can drop into Screenflow (a video editing app). I'm doing a lot of animated text instruction videos, and ...
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Can I show a gif animation in a Photos.app slideshow?

I'm creating a slideshow/movie in Photos, and some of my photos are actually animated gifs, but they appear as low quality stills in the slideshow. Any way Photos can properly support these gifs?
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Keynote delay is longer than 0 seconds

In keynote I want to seamlessly animate a couple slides together with magic move. However, this seems impossible because even setting the delay to '0' keynote still noticeably delays almost a whole ...
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What is the angular velocity of the macOS beach ball?

Does anyone know the exact angular velocity of the spinning beach ball animation from El Capitan onwards? I'm trying to create an animation of it from scratch and googling has come up with nothing.
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How to animate different objects at sametime?

I think this is very basic question but I could not find solution online. I have keynote 7.0 on OS X EL Capitan 10.11.16. The problem is I have 3 objects and I want them to disappear at the same time. ...
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Speed up Mission Control animations in macOS Sierra

Introduced in macOS Sierra, the user can control how fast the Mission Control animation moves to the “end view”, by how fast the action is performed on a trackpad. I think the default setting is much ...
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No animation with MissionControl? Why?

I don't have animation for Mission Control anymore. It seems that it has been like that for few days. I have updated Duet a few days ago, maybe that's related... What happened? Is it possible that ...
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Why in starting it opens suddenly without animation effect?

When i unlock my iphone by finger print or pass code it opens suddenly like in a second without any animation I want to ask why this is happen?
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How to turn off Launchpad transparent

My MacBook, with Retina Display, has problems with smooth animations. How can I turn off the transparency (and blur) in Launchpad on OS X El Capitan? Also I'd like to turn off animation when I open ...
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How to make menu-bar auto-hide/appear faster? [duplicate]

There is a 0.5s delay and then the animation starts to roll the menu bar down. I know it doesn't sound a lot but in practice it gets annoying when I multitask and trying get tasks done fast. Is there ...
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Reveal each bullet by opacity in Keynote 6.6?

This question is an exact duplicate of How to partially uncover bullet points in Keynote except that I am asking for the current generation of Keynote (version 6.6.1, rather than Keynote '09). I ...
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Change page up / page down speed or disable animation?

I do a lot of scrolling in Safari. I often end up hitting space bar to jump across just the right sized blocks. I just looked into it now and I wonder, is it the exact same action as page down? Anyhow....
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Keynote 6.6: How can I make an object wider by animation, but not higher

I want to animate a block to be wider, but not higher. from this: ____________________ | Some Text | --------------------- to this: ______________________________________ | ...
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iMovie question (possibly need a different apple product? IDK)

Okay, this question is a bit of a doozy. I decided to try my hand at making a rotoscoping animation. That's basically an animation created using real film as a base. The original video is 16500 ...
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How can I pause animated GIFs in Messages.app on OS X?

I have a group message where my friends and I enjoy sharing animated GIFs. Sometimes, when one of these stays on screen for a long time, it will eat my CPU and cause my fan to spin up/make noise. I ...
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Morphing Vector Shapes

I have two vector shapes, and I need one to morph into the other as an animation. What application is best suited for this?
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Is it possible to change, reduce, or eliminate the "swiping" motion between Desktops in Yosemite? [closed]

I do a lot of swapping back and forth between desktops, and I find the animation very distracting. Can I turn this animation off? How about the "zoom" animation for the Dashboard, Lauchpad, and ...
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How do you completely disable the space-switching animations in OS X Yosemite?

Is there a way to completely disable the animations when switching from one space to another in Yosemite? Everything I have found so far is for previous versions of OS X. I have tried all of these ...
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In Keynote, how can I simulate magic move between different images?

I have two similar images that represent the same thing (a happy and sad face for a particular character). I use magic move for most slide transitions in my presentation, but obviously that doesn't ...
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Animation for charts in Keynote

Does anyone know how to do the shrinking of chart animation in WWDC for the speed of swift?
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Is it possible to use an animated image for the user picture?

So I dragged my .gif onto he default globe, and it shows the popup allowing me to edit the dimensions of my image. While I am zooming in/out, it is still animating. I was overjoyed at this, thinking ...
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Create animated PNGs (APNG)

Safari 8 supports the unofficial APNG extension to the standardized PNG format. Most popular image editors (on any platform) do not support APNG (yet). Plugins are mostly available for Windows ...
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OS X - How to disable the opening file animation?

Does anyone know of a way to disable this animation: I recall being able to in previous iterations of OS X.
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