Re: [applekeynote] Re: Coping with badly maintained projectors

All good advice. My presentations are heavy on photographs, and if the color is off on the projector, it's a real problem. 

I know of a number of professional speakers who publish their requirements on their web sites and are very specific about their requirements. We don't all have that luxury though. Here is an example. 

http://www.martygrunder.com/?page_id=12

And another:

http://jeffreyscott.biz/js_meetingplanners.html

Tim

On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Don Kraig wrote:

Even when I was using white boards and flip charts I faced a similar problem with the 
sound system. Promoters would say they have an excellent sound system and I would be 
confronted with a wired, hand-held microphone leading to a distorting sound system. 
Once, the "speaker cabinet" was a speaker mounted to a cardboard box.

Unless I am absolutely positive that a venue will have the proper electronics, I always carry 
my own computer to run KN. I have my own wireless lapel microphone. And i bring my 
own projector. If it's local, I bring my own sound system and if it's distant I check to see if 
a sound system is rentable.

My projector is a Sharp Notevision SR-1X. It's about 4.5" deep by 9.5" wide by 2.5" tall. I'm 
not trying to promote this unit, but I am pointing out that there are good quality 
projectors that are relatively small. This unit is far from perfect. For example, it doesn't 
have a zoom lens. The solution: I carry a 25' cable to attach it to my Mac. 

I follow the motto of the Boy Scouts: Be Prepared!

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@...> wrote:
>
> Presentations away from home (as they usually are) face you with the 
> same problem professional pianists have, that you have no control 
> over the quality of the projector that you have to use. (On one 
> occasion I brought my own projector to a meeting because the 
> organizer told me with one day's warning that only PowerPoint on a PC 
> could be used, but that's a lot of trouble.)
> 
> I've at least twice been faced with projectors that had no red 
> (projecting red as yellow), and yellow text against a yellow 
> background isn't too legible. (Why would I want yellow text against a 
> red background? not too ofte...

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