Vicki Hardin on sun 16 dec 07
I seem to recall this being discussed, but cannot find anything in the
archives about digital presentations. I was wondering how people have
presented their work on CD. I have been looking at a PowerPoint presentation
and have considered buying a program for creating digital books. I was
hoping to do a presentation on CD for a catalogue as I was recently asked
for one by a gallery in Pennsylvania that wanted to purchase some of my work
wholesale. I would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions.
Vicki Hardin
http://ClayArtWebGuide.com
Vince Pitelka on sun 16 dec 07
Vicky wrote:
> I seem to recall this being discussed, but cannot find anything in the
> archives about digital presentations. I was wondering how people have
> presented their work on CD. I have been looking at a PowerPoint
> presentation
> and have considered buying a program for creating digital books. I was
> hoping to do a presentation on CD for a catalogue as I was recently ask=
ed
> for one by a gallery in Pennsylvania that wanted to purchase some of my
> work wholesale. I would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions.
Vicky -
PowerPoint is now the ubiquitous presentation software used on both PC an=
d
Mac, and that's what I would use for the kind of application you refer to=
.
When sending images for other purposes, as when applying for an
exhibition, just send JPEGs on a disk. It's easy to label them with
titles and numbers in the order you want them to be viewed, and JPEGs can
be opened quickly on any computer.
When putting together your PowerPoint presentation, be sure to reduce the
images to the minimum size that still looks good in PowerPoint, so that
the presentation will open and run quickly. I don't recall what that siz=
e
is, but perhaps someone else knows.
Several years ago we had a new coordinator for the gallery on the main TT=
U
campus, and in putting out the call for entries she forgot to specify
image format. We had everything imaginable, and it was a nightmare. In
some cases we never were able to get certain digital formats to open and
run. Some people had actually sent TIFF or RAW files that took forever t=
o
open and view, and you do not want to subject anyone to that when you are
asking them to look at your work. PhotoShop LE or most other photo
editing software will easily convert file format.
Good luck -
- Vince
--=20
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Technological University
vpitelka@dtccom.net
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
Hank Murrow on sun 16 dec 07
On Dec 16, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Vicki Hardin wrote:
> I seem to recall this being discussed, but cannot find anything in the
> archives about digital presentations. I was wondering how people have
> presented their work on CD. I have been looking at a PowerPoint
> presentation
> and have considered buying a program for creating digital books. I was
> hoping to do a presentation on CD for a catalogue as I was recently
> asked
> for one by a gallery in Pennsylvania that wanted to purchase some
> of my work
> wholesale. I would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions.
>
> Vicki Hardin
Dear Vicky;
I purchased iWork for my Mac laptop, and it contains a presentation
program called Keynote. It has enough bells and whistles to create a
varied program with great transitions and easy text addition. I used
it to create "A Life in Clay", "On the Shino Trail in Japan", and
"Discovering French Woodfire Potters". you can easily add narration
to your CD version, or music, or both.
Cheers, Hank
www.murrow.biz/hank
Stauffer Linda on sun 16 dec 07
Mac also comes with a program called iLife. There is a book creation
program in iLife that makes custom hard cover, soft cover and spiral
bound books in many sizes and styles. It is awesome. I used it to
create my Edge Barnes Smoke Fire Book, my Vacation in Ireland and a
story book written by my late daughter with illustrations by me. When
you are finished crating the book, you click on buy book and 7-10 days
later it is on your doorstep. Some day I'll get around to doing one on
my claywork. There is also iMovie and iDVD where you create
professional DVD's of your images, videos and slide shows
Linda Stauffer
On Dec 16, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Hank Murrow wrote:
On Dec 16, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Vicki Hardin wrote:
> I seem to recall this being discussed, but cannot find anything in the
> archives about digital presentations. I was wondering how people have
> presented their work on CD. I have been looking at a PowerPoint
> presentation
> and have considered buying a program for creating digital books. I was
> hoping to do a presentation on CD for a catalogue as I was recently
> asked
> for one by a gallery in Pennsylvania that wanted to purchase some
> of my work
> wholesale. I would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions.
>
> Vicki Hardin
Dear Vicky;
I purchased iWork for my Mac laptop, and it contains a presentation
program called Keynote. It has enough bells and whistles to create a
varied program with great transitions and easy text addition. I used
it to create "A Life in Clay", "On the Shino Trail in Japan", and
"Discovering French Woodfire Potters". you can easily add narration
to your CD version, or music, or both.
Cheers, Hank
www.murrow.biz/hank
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Vince Pitelka on sun 16 dec 07
Hank wrote:
> I purchased iWork for my Mac laptop, and it contains a presentation
> program called Keynote. It has enough bells and whistles to create a
> varied program with great transitions and easy text addition. I used
> it to create "A Life in Clay", "On the Shino Trail in Japan", and
> "Discovering French Woodfire Potters". you can easily add narration
> to your CD version, or music, or both.
Hank -
But does it open and operate on PCs with no problems at all? That's at
least part of the issue here. When you send someone a digital
presentation, it needs to open on their computer, no matter what they
have. Despite all the flaws of Microsoft software, PowerPoint seems to b=
e
the only current presentation software that works fine on both PC and MAC=
.
One important point though - if someone prepares PowerPoint presentation=
s
(or Excel files or MS Word files) on Office 2007, anyone who wants to ope=
n
those documents needs to download the free Microsoft Office Compatibility
Pack.
- Vince
--=20
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Technological University
vpitelka@dtccom.net
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
Hank Murrow on sun 16 dec 07
On Dec 16, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Vince Pitelka wrote:
> Hank wrote:
>> I purchased iWork for my Mac laptop, and it contains a presentation
>> program called Keynote. It has enough bells and whistles to create a
>> varied program with great transitions and easy text addition. I used
>> it to create "A Life in Clay", "On the Shino Trail in Japan", and
>> "Discovering French Woodfire Potters". you can easily add narration
>> to your CD version, or music, or both.
>
> Hank -
> But does it open and operate on PCs with no problems at all?
> That's at
> least part of the issue here.
Dear Vince;
Yes, the CDs open fine on any platform. My slide shows I run on my
PowerBook with a digital projector. The CDs have the same show, with
a canned narration.
> When you send someone a digital
> presentation, it needs to open on their computer, no matter what they
> have. Despite all the flaws of Microsoft software, PowerPoint
> seems to be
> the only current presentation software that works fine on both PC
> and MAC.
I will try to run my show on a PC soon to confirm your suspicions.
Cheers, Hank
www.murrow.biz/hank
ps: boy do your plates look fine.............
John Hesselberth on sun 16 dec 07
On Dec 16, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Vince Pitelka wrote:
> But does it open and operate on PCs with no problems at all?
Hi Vince,
Like most Mac programs, Keynote can write a Windows (in this case a
PowerPoint) file. In my experience those files run fine on a windows
machine running PowerPoint. That old bull about Macs not being able
to deal with Windows files is just that-bull. For the most part,
unless an Excel or Word user is using very esoteric features of their
program, Macs have no trouble writing or reading Windows files. The
opposite, of course, is not true. Windows cannot deal with Mac files
in most cases. And everyone I know that has used both PowerPoint and
Keynote says Keynote is a far superior program both from the
standpoints of both capability and easy of use.
John
John Hesselberth
www.frogpondpottery.com
"Man is a tool-using animal....without tools he is nothing, with
tools he is all" .... Thomas Carlyle
Donna Kat on mon 17 dec 07
If no one has mentioned it - you have to have powerpoint (or a powerpoint
viewer) installed on your machine to be able to view a powerpoint
presentation. I would include the viewer just in case.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048dc840-14e1-
467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&DisplayLang=en
I assume Mac and Unix have something of the same ilk. Donna
Russel Fouts on mon 17 dec 07
Powerpoint is ubiquitous and just in case your corespondents don't have
it, there are lots of powerpoint viewers that you can find online that
you can include on your CD. Google Powerpoint viewer.
Of course, you could always just build your presentation in HTML and run
it off the CD like a 'local' website. Use whatever software you're using
to build your current site or learn HTML code.
Then anyone can run it on any computer no matter Mac, PC, Linux or Unix
and of just about any processing power.
Russel
John Hesselberth on wed 26 dec 07
On Dec 16, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Vince Pitelka wrote:
> But does it open and operate on PCs with no problems at all?
> That's at
> least part of the issue here. When you send someone a digital
> presentation, it needs to open on their computer, no matter what they
> have. Despite all the flaws of Microsoft software, PowerPoint
> seems to be
> the only current presentation software that works fine on both PC
> and MAC.
Hi Vince,
Just a quick followup on this. I just finished putting together a
presentation in Keynote (Mac). While that, of course, can be
converted directly to a PowerPoint file and run on Windows--I have
done that before--, I took a different path this time. I recorded the
words that go with the presentation. Then I exported it as a
QuickTime movie. I moved that exact same file to my Windows machine
and the file runs perfectly on both RealPlayer or QuickTime Player
for Windows. I also exported it to an iPod and can run the
presentation on it. Now I have it burned to a CD which plays equally
well on both my Mac and Windows machines. Since you can record
QuickTime movies to either be linked to an audio track and
automatically change slides OR have no audio track and change slides
either manually or on a timed basis, it would be a pretty good way to
always have a copy of your portfolio ready to send or give to
somebody. I even put a copy of the QuickTime installer for Windows on
the CD so someone that doesn't have an appropriate player can install
one easily. But I suspect most every Windows machine comes with some
player that plays .mov files. All Macs, of course, come with
QuickTime Player installed.
Regards,
John
John Hesselberth
www.frogpondpottery.com
"Man is a tool-using animal....without tools he is nothing, with
tools he is all" .... Thomas Carlyle
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