Extracting images of slide animation

[tfurnivall]

I'm trying to find a short-cut/automatic way of extracting images from slide animations.

As an example - I have a slide with a set of animations that reveal text (or other objects) in small chunks. What I want to do is (somehow) to examine the animations, figure out what parts of the slide are involved, then put just those components into an image and save it. (pptx attached)

Obviously because some animations are dynamic (eg pulse in the attached sample) some reasonable accommodation needs to be made between what the PowerPoint shows, and what the extracted image shows, but this is fairly easily manageable, once I have the basic process down.


The Selection and Visibility panel (Alt+F10) gives me the basic access to objects on the slide. However, I Still need to figure out how to reference,for example, sub-components of the text in the content placeholder.. Many of the objects I'll be working with are si9mple graphics, so this may not be too difficult.

The animation pane (Alt + A,C) seems to have eye-readable information about each animation, but I don't know how easy it will be to decode the internal representations.

Has anybody done this before? If so, I'd love to hear how you went about it. If not, I guess I have long hours with a relatively poorly documented object model :-(

Thanks, in advance

Tony

PS The attachment is a zip containing a single pptx file, since pptx seems not to be a supported format :-(