Re: FLASH: voice over

[Joyce Richter]

Hi, James, thanks for your input.


I have had nothing but grief using PP (on NT). I find the fade-out

feature does not work, and end up creating separate slides for each

element I want greyed out. It also seems to hate all my font choices

except Arial and TimesNewRoman, and substitutes as soon as I move the

presentation to another machine (even with fonts embedded and/or

available).


My superiors are looking for a professional demo, which will be run from

our machines so we will have some control over the output. I really want

to do this project (my primary function is documentation) and I am

afraid they will decide to have the 'marketing' consultants do it. These

'consultants' have done an incredibly bad job of everything from

re-naming the company GWiz (it was GW Associates) and designing a logo

that is difficult to reproduce and brochures that look like a

high-school project. 


I don't think we will have a 45-minute presentation, rather several

smaller ones to describe the various modules - we have an oil and gas

accounting package with 16 different modules. Think that will make

things easier??


Thanks again,


Joyce



james wrote:

> 

>

--- Joyce Richter <joycergwsi [dot] com> wrote:

> > I'm not a Flash user yet, but have been asked to

> > find a software program

> > to put together a presentation. They want screen

> > shots of our product

> > accompanied by voice descriptions.

> > -------

> You can go with Flash on this, or even something like

> <gulp>MS Powerpoint</gulp>...  just depends on how

> fancy you want to get and how professional the

> presentation needs to be.

> 

> For my situation, Flash started out ok, but for a

> lengthy presentation with lots of screen shots

> involved, etc, it ran much to slow on our presenter's

> laptops, and looked different, if not bad, on

> different resolutions due to BMP scaling.  Plus, I had

> to build every transition and for a 45 min presention

> with tons of slides, that takes forever.  God forbid

> you need to make a change to that transition,

> throughout the presentation.

> 

> These same laptops have no problem running PowerPoint

> (PPT) presentation, with audio/video, and the scaling

> is quite nice, so that's the route I've ended up

> taking.

> 

> Plus, if you are fairly new to flash, creating a

> presentation with nice transitions, navigation, etc,

> can take quite some time, whereas in PPT you can

> select/change a transition or animation instantly,

> with no coding/changes.

> 

> Again, I think Flash gives a professional

> touch/quality to the animations, transitions, etc, but

> in MY case, PPT has worked out for the better.

> 

> Unfortunately my presentations are internal and not

> for public viewing... but that's my 2 cents on the

> real-world issues I ran in to.

> 

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