How to align on two columns mixing itemize and figures?

Question

I have tried a great suggestion from a previous question I asked where I experienced a similar problem using \vphantom unfortunately it didn't work in the following example:

I have a frame with two columns: left column will go from itemize text -> image 1 -> image 2 right column will go fromimage 3 -> image 3 -> image 4`

When I go from slide 1 to slide 2 the image 3 which should stay the same moves. Any tips on how to prevent this behaviour?

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{braket}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{empheq}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{animate}
%\usepackage[backend=biber,url=false,doi=false,isbn=false,firstinits=true]{biblatex}


\begin{document}

    \begin{frame}{Stuff}{More stuff}
        \begin{columns}[T]
        \begin{column}[T]{0.5\textwidth}
            \onslide<1>{
            \begin{itemize}
                \item text 1
                \item text 2
            \end{itemize} }
            \includegraphics<2>[width=\textwidth]{measurement_1.png}
            \includegraphics<3>[width=\textwidth]{measurement_2.png}
        \end{column}
        \begin{column}[T]{0.5\textwidth}
            \includegraphics<1-2>[width=\textwidth]{meas3.png}
            \includegraphics<3>[width=\textwidth]{meas4.png}
        \end{column}
        \end{columns}
    \end{frame}


\end{document}

Answer 1

This is what overlayarea was designed for in beamer; the syntax is:

\begin{overlayarea}{<width>}{<height>}
...
\end{overlayarea}

A complete example:

\documentclass[demo]{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{braket}
\usepackage{empheq}
\usepackage{animate}
%\usepackage[backend=biber,url=false,doi=false,isbn=false,firstinits=true]{biblatex}


\begin{document}

    \begin{frame}{Stuff}{More stuff}
\begin{overlayarea}{\textwidth}{\textheight}
        \begin{columns}[T]
        \begin{column}[T]{0.5\textwidth}
            \onslide<1>{
            \begin{itemize}
                \item text 1
                \item text 2
            \end{itemize} }
            \includegraphics<2>[width=\textwidth]{measurement_1.png}
            \includegraphics<3>[width=\textwidth]{measurement_2.png}
        \end{column}
        \begin{column}[T]{0.5\textwidth}
            \includegraphics<1-2>[width=\textwidth]{meas3.png}
            \includegraphics<3>[width=\textwidth]{meas4.png}
        \end{column}
        \end{columns}
\end{overlayarea}        
    \end{frame}


\end{document}

Changing the height argument, you can get different vertical alignment:

\documentclass[demo]{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{braket}
\usepackage{empheq}
\usepackage{animate}
%\usepackage[backend=biber,url=false,doi=false,isbn=false,firstinits=true]{biblatex}


\begin{document}

    \begin{frame}{Stuff}{More stuff}
\begin{overlayarea}{\textwidth}{.5\textheight}
        \begin{columns}[T]
        \begin{column}[T]{0.5\textwidth}
            \onslide<1>{
            \begin{itemize}
                \item text 1
                \item text 2
            \end{itemize} }
            \includegraphics<2>[width=\textwidth]{measurement_1.png}
            \includegraphics<3>[width=\textwidth]{measurement_2.png}
        \end{column}
        \begin{column}[T]{0.5\textwidth}
            \includegraphics<1-2>[width=\textwidth]{meas3.png}
            \includegraphics<3>[width=\textwidth]{meas4.png}
        \end{column}
        \end{columns}
\end{overlayarea}        
    \end{frame}


\end{document}

The demo class option simply replaces actual figures with black rectangles; do not use that option in your actual document.

Answer 2

You can use a parbox. The command looks like \parbox[position][height][content position]{width}{text}. Note that:

1. I don't have the images that you're using, so the height in the parbox is just a guess, adjust it to your needs (this is also why there's the demo option to the class)
2. beamer already loads graphicx, no need to load it again
3. When you make a MWE it is better to eliminate all of the packages that you load that don't lead to the error/problem you have. In particular, I can reproduce your problem while loading none of the packages you have in your preamble, so I deleted them all here :-)
4. I made it so that everything would be centered vertically in the columns, because I assume you were using the [T] alignment due to the recommendation of the beamer manual. If you want top-alignment, simply put t in the appropriate optional arguments of the parbox

---

\documentclass[demo]{beamer}

\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}{Stuff}{More stuff}
        \begin{columns}
        \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
        \parbox[c][0.55\textheight][c]{\columnwidth}{
            \onslide<1>{
            \begin{itemize}
                \item text 1
                \item text 2
            \end{itemize} }
            \includegraphics<2>[width=\textwidth]{measurement_1.png}
            \includegraphics<3>[width=\textwidth]{measurement_2.png}
        }
        \end{column}
        \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
            \includegraphics<1-2>[width=\textwidth]{meas3.png}
            \includegraphics<3>[width=\textwidth]{meas4.png}
        \end{column}
        \end{columns}
    \end{frame}
\end{document}