Split screen output for Presentations

[Thomas McGrath III]

Sivakatirswami,

Yes Keynote can split the output but only during full screen mode. 
There is a preference under Preferences/ Presenter Display that has a 
check box for "Use alternate display to view presenter information" 
with some neat options for a timer/clock etc..  You can also preview 
what the second window looks like if you don't have a projector hooked 
up, by a button that says 'Edit Presenter Layout..." otherwise you 
don't get to see the second window until full screen mode. Also, I 
don't remember for sure but I think you have to turn Video Mirroring 
off? - not 100% sure though.

The thing that distinguishes Keynote from PowerPoint is that it has 
much richer graphics and video support. It also has better interaction 
using text and graphics for navigating. ( I was able to prototype a 
game that played in Keynote that could not be done in PP.)  The other 
thing Keynote has is XML which will/should open some doors for other 
apps that might have even better tools to do something with the Keynote 
presentations.

I also agree that graphics support and graphic specific tools should be 
high on the list for the next improvements to REV. I would like to fill 
some of the 'holes' left behind during the transition from MM to Adobe 
for Director. I am sure once Adobe merges them DIrector might get 
better but for now there will be a nervous gap with people looking else 
where 'just in case' Director is dropped. Even if it isn't dropped I 
can at least exploit some of these issues.

Especially since a lot of people use Director/Flash for software 
development that it is not the best tool for and can actually make some 
projects obsolete. It would not take much of an argument to persuade 
these people to switch or at least try an xTalk for.

Tom

On May 1, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Apple's new Keynote has an interesting new feature:
>
> It can make 2 separate windows! Wow! (grin)
>
> Ok, yes, REv can do that and a lot more though Rev's Graphic options 
> are still a bit stone age compared to what iWorks offers now.
>
> [aside: humbly suggest that for Rev to move forward, that the back end 
> of the engine for applications development is already ramped up enough 
> (for the time being), and and a new focus on graphics Dev both in the 
> IDE and for delivery is needed to keep Rev on the Cutting Edge of the 
> Future, especially now that Adobe has bought Macro Media. I know, I 
> know, we don't want the core of the executable to get so bloated that 
> delivery of a little widget application weighs in at 5-6 megabytes, 
> so, ala Richard's earlier musings, some modularity option may be 
> needed.]]
>
> OK that said, I do have a specific question:
>
> Keynote can output one window to the channel that goes out to the 
> projector -- > video port. i.e. it shows on the screen. and the second 
> window is locked onto the personal PC's LCD screen, where the latter 
> window has notes for the presentor which are not seen by the audience 
> who are watching output to the project --> large display screen in the 
> front of the hall.
>
> Thomas (McGr...) you do this stuff all the time right?
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
>
>
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