I have worked with Powerpoint since before Powerpoint ever came out. I worked for Genigraphics on a main frame computer system and actually created the first CLUT(first ever) to put into Powerpoint for the new desktop computers that were coming out. (Years ago) I worked with Powerpoint in getting the first slides out and getting the colors right on slides. I shamefully am also responsible for a lot of the early clipart in Powerpoint as well. But they were done on a main frame and ported over to Harvard Graphics and Powerpoint so at the time they were the best in the world.
Any way I know every trick in PPT and have been doing presentations for years so I have thousands of Powerpoint presentations in my portfolio.
The project I am doing has advanced effects done in PPT that are near impossible to export in tact. I am trying to export them from PPT and then import them into REV with full interactivity and also with better interactive controls found in REV. I first have to import into Keynote from PPT and then save interactive movie from within Keynote and then import that into REV in order to get it to work EASILY. I don't want to have to recreate each slide or parts of each slide if I can help it. I can created a 150 slide presentation in just a couple of hours and so it would be nice to start there for future projects too. Although if I created similar features in REV then I could just start there. The real thing in doing it in REV is bulleted fields, master slides, and SIMPLE text manipulations (read earlier posts)
So in the end I get good movie results as interactive(click to go next slide in movie) but poor results for Hyperlinks and clipped images and secondary bullet fields (Keynote only has one bullet field). So for those I export as png files (Screenshots) and import them into REV and add clear buttons as interactive buttons.
But to put clear buttons over a movie will not work easily (I could do QT time counts etc.) so I am going to look into the hotspot features in QT which I believe work in 2D movies as interactive hotspots in a movie. Then the links would be 'in' QT and communicate to REV for further interactivity.
I will post some examples when I am done for the different ways to deal with Powerpoint and Keynote in Rev.
Thanks to your help and others,
Tom
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:56 PM, Ken Norris wrote:
Hi Tom,
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 02:11:21 -0500 From: Thomas J McGrath III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Keynote
I will play more with the Hotspots and get back with that info.----------
I don't understand exactly what you're doing, but I always thought Rev would
make a good base for developing a superior multimedia presentation device.
Let us know. Thanks, Ken N.
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