Play animated graphic when “next slide” is clicked

Question

I am giving a presentation and I have included an animatedgraphic in the following way:

\animategraphics[scale=0.4,autoplay]{8}{movie}{000}{200}

As you can see, this is played automatically. But I want to have it in the following way:

I use a presentation tool, where I can click on "next slide" and "previous slide". So this tool is just imitating the left cursor and right cursor you would normally use to click to the next / previous slide. How can I tell LaTex to play the animation, when I click on "next slide". Is this possible using a presenter?

EDIT:

Ignore the presenter, a solution for the right cursor is ok!

Answer 1

Put

\alt<2>{%
  \animategraphics[scale=0.4,autoplay]{8}{movie}{000}{200}%
}{%
  \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{movie000}%
}

into the frame body.

Complete example using multipage PDF from pkg mwe as animation frames:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{animate}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[t]{Animation}
\dots started on ``next slide'':\\[2ex]

\alt<2>{%
  \animategraphics[height=2in,autoplay]{8}{example-image-a4-numbered}{}{}%
}{%
  \includegraphics[height=2in,page=1]{example-image-a4-numbered}%
}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Answer 2

An easy way to avoid code duplication is described in this workaround:

• variable \myframe defines the number of frames composing the animation

• overlay command \only overwrites the value of \myframe depending on which (beamer) frame you are.

  \documentclass{beamer}
  \usepackage{default}
  \usepackage{tikz}
  \usepackage{animate}
  \usepackage{xcolor}
  
  \begin{document}
  \begin{frame}{autoplay next slide example}
  %% variable myframe decides how many frames the animation is composed of
  \only<1>{\def\myframes{1}}
  \only<2>{\def\myframes{81}}
  
  \begin{animateinline}[poster=first,autoplay]{12}%
  %%  variable rl defines the percentual variation in the position of the moving object
  \multiframe{\myframes}{rl=0+.0125}{%
  
      \begin{tikzpicture}
          \clip (-.5,-.5) rectangle (10,7); %% visible rectangle              
          \draw[draw=black, fill=black] (1+3*\rl, 2+4*\rl) circle (3pt);          
      \end{tikzpicture}      
  }
  \end{animateinline}     
  \end{frame}
  \end{document}
  

Answer 3

I was totally struggling to make this work, since i can't implement AlexG's solution to every single animation i want to use - this requires to split each animation into first frame and other frames, or have some other artificial slides before the animation could start.

For my purposes, of no controls

\begin{animateinline}[autoplay, loop, method=widget]

made the trick

Answer 4

For me I did this

\animategraphics[loop,autoplay,width=\linewidth]{10}{figures/reaction/}{1}{20}

and it works perfectly

Answer 5

I implemented a first brute force solution, which is not a real technical solution to this problem, but somehow it is a solution for this problem:

I just copied the frame and changed the frame before to \includegraphics.

Then I added before the next frame which contains the animation a

\addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}

So when I now click on next slide the next slide appears and this has an autoplay.

(nothing else changes, the frame number is the same, so the audience should not notice it)