how to put 4 animations next to each other in a presentation?

Question

I am creating a presentation in Latex where I have 2 slides which would contain 4-4 slides in a window-like setup. I found this link: Add four images on a beamer frame and tried to put the animations like that but it does not work with animations. It ends up like this no matter what:

However, I would like to put them like in the link. Like this:

Minimal Working Example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{animate}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}
\column{.5\textwidth}
\centering
\animategraphics[autoplay, loop,scale=0.33]{25}{gif/frame-}{0}{36}\
\animategraphics[autoplay, loop,scale=0.33]{25}{gif/frame-}{0}{36}
\column{.5\textwidth}
\centering
\animategraphics[autoplay, loop,scale=0.33]{25}{gif/frame-}{0}{36}\
\animategraphics[autoplay, loop,scale=0.33]{25}{gif/frame-}{0}{36}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

I also tried this with animate: how can I put multiple video next to each other on one slide presentation but it does not change anything regarding the animations.

Edit: Based on this answer from '13: Animate multiple sequences of images side by side, it seems like it worked previously but something has changed.

Edit: \begin{columns}[b] or \begin{columns}[c] or \begin{columns}[t] or \begin{columns}[T] with and without \centering did not change anything. Neither if I put any of them after \begin{frame}.

Edit: The inputs are in png format. Using height and width explicilty changes the size of the animations but no the location.

Edit: Something really weird is happening since even I just put one animation in the slide, it will be placed in the lower left corner.

Edit: \begin{center} does the same as the first try. It does not change anything.

Edit: Creating a fully new version with just one slide, it works as expected. Not sure what happens in my actual project which makes it wrong.

Welcome to TSE. Please post a Minimal Working Example, instead of a code snippet. — José Carlos Santos, Dec 10 '21 at 22:25
I am not sure why this is, but you can maybe place the animations in minipages or \parboxes and this way specify the height and width. — Jasper Habicht, Dec 11 '21 at 09:06
I did try the minipages approach but the animation was out of them. — nyaki, Dec 11 '21 at 09:45
I think that the correct syntax for the columns should be \begin{columns} \column{0.5\textwidth} ... \column{0.5\textwidth}... \end{columns} — vi pa, Dec 11 '21 at 09:49
Have you try \begin{columns}[b] or \begin{columns}[c] or \begin{columns}[t] or \begin{columns}[T] with and without \centering? — vi pa, Dec 11 '21 at 10:00
You could also try to set explicitly width and height for \animategraphics. — Jasper Habicht, Dec 11 '21 at 14:20
And what about \begin{frame}[b] or \begin{frame}[c] or \begin{frame}[t]? — vi pa, Dec 11 '21 at 16:01
If I use example-movie.pdf from pkg mwe with your code, the output looks as expected. What happens if you place \includegraphics[scale=0.33]{gif/frame-0} in the columns? — AlexG, Dec 11 '21 at 16:11
You can try to place the animations without the columns as here. — vi pa, Dec 11 '21 at 16:15
Yes, moreover those beamer columns are weird: two of them with 0.5\textwidth placed side-by-side are wider than the normal text area of \textwidth, without a warning. — AlexG, Dec 11 '21 at 16:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '21 at 16:57

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\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{resize to}[%physical paper width=8in, physical paper height=6in]

lines caused the whole problem. Removing them fixed the issue.

answered Dec 11 '21 at 16:57

nyaki

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