Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Everyone wants their PowerPoint presentations to look different. And so do you – but where do you start? With a template? That’s part of the answer – but you also need color-coordinated buttons, icons and bullets – and nice visuals that match the look and feel of your presentation.
That’s where Style Workshop comes into the picture.
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Clip Media
Tagged as: Clip Media, IndigoRose, Review
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Inserting video clips into PowerPoint is usually easy. Also, PowerPoint allows ample control over how you want the video to play while in slide show mode. However, video in itself comes from disparate sources: from camcorders to stock footage libraries and in-house rendered content to downloads from the Internet. An amazing number of video formats actually are bestowed with an even more amazing number of codecs. And if you don’t know what this format and codec thing means, you have come to the right place!
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Media, PowerPoint, Video
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Ever since Macromedia decided to open up the Flash SWF format, there has been a deluge of fine programs that output everything from animations and video to the Flash SWF format. Our subject of discussion today is Flix from Wildform, a program that converts video formats to Flash SWF.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Flash, Review, Wildform
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Take-off PlanPoint is a free Microsoft PowerPoint add-on that enables you to show or hide slides in a presentation at specified dates and times. The product is currently a beta version.
More info can be found on the Take-off site.
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Add-ins
Tagged as: Kurt Dupont, PlanPoint, PowerPoint, PresentationPoint
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Stumbling blocks to using PowerPoint narration include incompatible sound cards, loose mic cables, multimedia properties wrongly set, and volume settings. Indezine helps you sort them all out, through this guest post by Indezine founder, Geetesh Bajaj on the InfoComm website.
Read the guest post on the InfoComm site.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Geetesh Bajaj, Infocomm, Narration, PowerPoint
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