consultation" is appreciated - the mark of a
presenter who knows how to give the audience what
the want, not just what they need ;)
I'm not sure how relevant this will be to your
presentation, but I do want to share an
experience I had recently integrating QuickTime
product into Keynote that may have elements of
use to you.
I had a great deal of historical data to pass
along to my audience, not incredibly deep in its
content but spanning a long period of time. The
night before the presentation (yes, that is how I
tend to work. Sigh.) I happened across the Apple
Design Award winners page from WWDC 2008
(http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/index.html#application)
On that page I found the one-trick-pony (but what
a pony!) BeeDocs Timeline 3D
(http://www.beedocs.com).
A quick demo download, and $69 payment later, I
quickly built a very cool-looking (oh, and clear,
informative and accessible to the audience)
timeline.
But... this would be one part of the
presentation, not the whole shebang. And I didn't
want to jump through those hoops of switching
from Keynote to Timeline 3D (even with the Freeze
Screen trick) and risk a funky presentation.
Solution? Timeline 3D supports QuickTime export.
So - I made a movie of the presentation. And
then I discovered Apple's genius.
I imported the movie into Keynote and placed it
among the various slides. I test-ran the
presentation, and was very pleased to discover
that I could use the Apple Remote to control the
movie as well! This enabled me to replicate
(with careful play/pause use) Timeline 3D's own
presentation method. And it was smooth as silk,
too.
However.... as I developed the presentation, it
became clear that there were moments during the
timeline in which I would need to expand on the
point of a particular historical moment in
greater detail, with accompanying supporting
slides. This presented a quandry as to how to
jump out of the movie and back to it later.
Solution? Chop up the movie. I have QT Pro, so
it was an easy matter - others can do the same,
no doubt, with iMovie or another utility.
The end result was pretty seamless, and the only
tool I needed during the show was my Apple Remote.
One caveat: once in a QT movie, you can
Play/Pause at will, but there is no "reverse"
that I know of to go backward within the video.
:)
Cheers,
Mark.
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Mark Rushton,
Doctorado en Estudios del Desarrollo
Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Zacatecas, México
http://web.mac.com/mrushton
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