Slideshow with Revolution?

[Sivakatirswami]

Tom,

Cool way to stress test  with just 11 slides ( I think that's what  
you meant to do.. by adding the variable)

Klaus, was 2.7.1rc1 announced on this list? can I get it? I would  
like to stress test this.. and have a project where using this record  
thing Tom suggested with call back will be the answer to a really  
difficult problem.


More than you want to know below:

Here's my 'big picture' context: one dev group is developing  
prosentations in KeyNote that are delivered at conferences. A lot  
work goes into this: image-art acquisition, slide text, all pre- 
written,  speaker's text  is carefully drafted and edited. (not shown  
on screen but in the KeyNotes screen two, speaker's notes field),

Ok the presentation is given verbally, but the presentor is  
practically reading word for word the presentor's notes on screen two  
while the presentation is running on screen one (which appears on the  
big screen in the auditorium...). OK, it's a very big hit! Makes most  
Power Point presentations look horrible, Of course what people don't  
know is that a whole team of designers, editors etc worked on this  
thing  months in advance... Now the bomb comes... Here you are in  
Sydney Australia with several thousand people watching the  
presentation...  rush up afterwards "Oh! that was incredible. Can we  
get that to show in our classrooms! With your voice over?" someone  
says, "Oh yes, of course we can do that..." (smile)

Ok now, how do  you do that? not as easy as you might think. SnapsPro  
will record video &audio input while the presentation is running, but  
the box presenting the KeyNotes is running the Mac Intel now.. and  
SnapsPro and MacCapture have no intel version yet.

You can record the presentor, export to quicktime movie.but syncing  
the QT movie with the sound is a night mare: the QT export simply  
runs transitions on a preset timer, but the time for the voice over  
for any one slide varies all over the place.  Even if we do manage,  
after days of work in FinalCut pro to sync all that... we end up with  
a 800 meg file... = only delivery option is on DVD data disk or turn  
it into a DVD. There seem to be all kinds of other "issues" with  
KeyNote, movies that shoudl be linkable are embedded... the size of  
the file grows and grows and grows...

Enter Revolution: if we are willing to sacrifice some (a lot  
actually) of  the keynote eye candy (twirly graphics checker board  
zoomy transitions... logos rendering in 3 D motion...) we can simplly  
export the slide as jpgs, import into Revolution with an external  
sound track, set the call backs and voila.. we have a stack plus  
audio = 20 megs, deliverable on the internet.

One of you wizards should just build a two screen presentation  
environment for Rev, do a shameless copy of the PowerPoint or KeyNote  
model, leave the scripts open source and sell it to the rest of us  
for 49.95... I would buy it in a minute. iWorks (contains keynote)  
sells for $79.00 and if most users like us just want the Keynote Part  
(who really needs "Pages" except your little sister, I find most MS  
word users are die hard MS word users)

Of course it giving away tools to the rest of us his more fun, the  
give use this presentation tool for free and see if we can get flocks  
of board room presentation people to buy revolution.

so if a revolutionary created a presentation shell, tool kit, with  
all the scripts open source for developers to plug and play... I'm  
sure there is a market for it.

It would export and import XML of course so that we are not actually  
having editorial teams doing their writing and editing in KeyNote  
itself (yes, incredible but true, advanced Quark and InDesign and MS  
word users are sitting there manually fixing spelling in KeyNote!)

Sivakatirswami
Himalayan Academy Publications
at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
katir at hindu.org

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On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> I tested the stack here but modified the script so that the gonext  
> would:
> on gonext tVar
> ------ snip
> go card tVar
> end gonext
>
> and modified the "set next slide point to include the card number  
> of the next card etc. This let me put lots and lots of 3543, gonext  
> 4 ,etc. This showed lots of transitions between cards and was very  
> fast too.
>
> Anyway, I notice that the player object itself seems to hang around  
> a 1/4 of an inch in and then does eventually start moving. I am  
> looking at the actual slider of the player object and it does hang  
> and then jump ahead to catch up, if you will, and then the slides  
> start to play again. It appears that this is a bug or message  
> update of the object and not your script. It is not on slide so and  
> so that this happens but rather at some point in time the player  
> object does not update.
>
> By the way it happens again later in the song at about three  
> quarters of the way where it hangs again. The music still plays but  
> the player object is not updated and the "callbacks" must be using  
> the actual player object's state even though the song is much  
> further along.