Jamie
February 22nd, 2006, 12:22
I am soon to start developing a final presentation to coincide with the final countdown for the Switzerland trip I have been organising for the last 5 months.
The initial presentation which I did to help get the numbers confirmed on the trip was done using PowerPoint, but we soon learnt that PowerPoint, even combined with a high performance laptop, simply didn't allow us to do everything we wanted. The presentation was based around timings at split seconds to the theme tune (Eye of the Tiger if you're wondering), and quite often, PowerPoint and the laptop would throw a fit and end up 5-10 seconds out on the timing, simply because the file size of the presentation was very big, and the laptop couldn't handle it. Out of the 7 or so presentations we did, this happened about three times, so I guess we were quite lucky that it stayed in sync all the other times.
Once again, this final presentation is going to be quite large, possibly focusing again on split second timing. It will likely contain a huge amount of photos taken of the organisers planning the event, the training camps we had running up to the main event etc, and also several short videos.
I guess my question is, what other options do I have apart from PowerPoint, baring in mind this will be made on a PC, put on a laptop, and then projected on to a projector screen?
We are planning on developing a DVD, or video on a CD when we get back from Switzerland for everybody to purchase, so maybe it wouldn't hurt to do this presentation as a media file, such as .wmv. I have absolutely no experience with video, so it will be a huge learning curve for me, but maybe that's the way to go. Christina, Ross, would you suggest a video for a projected presentation?
My other option is Flash. I assume, because this will be ran locally, and not over the Internet, there is no need to worry about out of sync music as everything will load in double quick time, as it does when developing a Web site on your local machine, right? Although I would have thought this would have been the same with PowerPoint, but I guess not.
Are there any other methods I haven't mentioned which may be useful?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The initial presentation which I did to help get the numbers confirmed on the trip was done using PowerPoint, but we soon learnt that PowerPoint, even combined with a high performance laptop, simply didn't allow us to do everything we wanted. The presentation was based around timings at split seconds to the theme tune (Eye of the Tiger if you're wondering), and quite often, PowerPoint and the laptop would throw a fit and end up 5-10 seconds out on the timing, simply because the file size of the presentation was very big, and the laptop couldn't handle it. Out of the 7 or so presentations we did, this happened about three times, so I guess we were quite lucky that it stayed in sync all the other times.
Once again, this final presentation is going to be quite large, possibly focusing again on split second timing. It will likely contain a huge amount of photos taken of the organisers planning the event, the training camps we had running up to the main event etc, and also several short videos.
I guess my question is, what other options do I have apart from PowerPoint, baring in mind this will be made on a PC, put on a laptop, and then projected on to a projector screen?
We are planning on developing a DVD, or video on a CD when we get back from Switzerland for everybody to purchase, so maybe it wouldn't hurt to do this presentation as a media file, such as .wmv. I have absolutely no experience with video, so it will be a huge learning curve for me, but maybe that's the way to go. Christina, Ross, would you suggest a video for a projected presentation?
My other option is Flash. I assume, because this will be ran locally, and not over the Internet, there is no need to worry about out of sync music as everything will load in double quick time, as it does when developing a Web site on your local machine, right? Although I would have thought this would have been the same with PowerPoint, but I guess not.
Are there any other methods I haven't mentioned which may be useful?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.