PowerPoint Presentation
I've been asked to put together a very large PP presentation with hundreds of pictures. Putting all those pictures in the PPP one at a time is daunting. Does anyone know of a way to add them all at once or at least a bunch at a time? What I'd like to do is add all the pics into a single file and then import them into the PPP. Is this just wishful thinking?
All I can find on the subject is that if the pics are already in PP form from other presentations that they can be imported at once. Of course, that isn't the case in this situation.
Thanks for any suggestions.
All I can find on the subject is that if the pics are already in PP form from other presentations that they can be imported at once. Of course, that isn't the case in this situation.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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If the latter, just drag and drop them in from the Finder.
If PP won't let you do that, use Keynote. Go grab the '09 demo, and you have 30 days to try it out, full featured. Drag and drop them in, quick and easy, then save as PPT.
Is it one pic per slide, or just 'get them all in there'?
If the latter, just drag and drop them in from the Finder.
If PP won't let you do that, use Keynote. Go grab the '09 demo, and you have 30 days to try it out, full featured. Drag and drop them in, quick and easy, then save as PPT.
It's one pic per slide, so I guess I'm in for some long, boring sessions. Right?
for each file in folder foo, tell Keynote create new slide paste file
or something like that
It's one pic per slide, so I guess I'm in for some long, boring sessions. Right?
My rule-of-thumb is that each slide requires two minutes to present. A presentation composed of hundreds of slides would put Fidel Castro to shame.
My rule-of-thumb is that each slide requires two minutes to present. A presentation composed of hundreds of slides would put Fidel Castro to shame.
*TWO MINUTES*?!?
Jesus, I spend about 15 seconds per slide. If you hit 60 seconds, your audience is falling asleep. Two minutes, and unless they're there by force, they're out the door.
And NEVER read your slides... in fact, I prefer slides with a single image, or one or two words, and that's it. I'm there to *talk*, not read slides that someone could read at another time. That's what a transcript/paper is for.
Keep it crisp, keep it moving, keep it snappy, keep it clear.
*TWO MINUTES*?!?
Jesus, I spend about 15 seconds per slide. ....
Are you serious? My God, man, what field are you in? Many of my colleagues embed video in some of their PowerPoints. Those require more than two minutes each.
I have done presentations. My colleagues do presentations. Students do presentations. The great mistake that most of them make is to budget less than two minutes per slide in the belief that they can get through a 30 slide presentation in less than an hour. Few make it. I do because I know that it takes two minutes per slide.
Unless you are addressing an ADD self-help group, your audience is not going out the door after 15 seconds. To the contrary, if your slides are at all informative, then your audience will be distracted by trying to keep up with them.
This discussion brings to mind the way the Air Force (and other military) teaches troops to recognize friendly and foe aircraft and other military vehicles. The slide shows the aircraft or other for ONLY a fraction of a second. Troops must be able to identify them within that short time. Fortunately, that's not my situation.
Thanks, Kickaha, for the AppleScript suggestion. My skills in that area were never great, and it's been a very long time since I used it. It will be interesting to see if I can do it.
Are you serious? My God, man, what field are you in?
Comp Sci. IBM Research. I present to conferences, colleagues, and executives on a fairly regular basis - and I always get high compliments on my presentations.
Many of my colleagues embed video in some of their PowerPoints. Those require more than two minutes each.
If there's a video that you need to show, then sure - but those aren't static bullet lists just sitting there while the presenter reads them. Instant presentation death.
I mean hell, I threw a spinning 3D movie into a formal denotation semantics presentation once because I thought it made the point in 5sec of video instead of 30sec of reading equations. The equations were more *precise*, but the graphic got *the point across*. They could read the paper for the precision. You do what you need to to get the information across succinctly and clearly.
Dissertation defense: 45 min, 98 slides. That's normal for me... and in the end, I had laypeople who understood the technology, the contributions, and the impact, and well enough that they were having post-defense discussions with faculty on it.
I have done presentations. My colleagues do presentations. Students do presentations. The great mistake that most of them make is to budget less than two minutes per slide in the belief that they can get through a 30 slide presentation in less than an hour. Few make it. I do because I know that it takes two minutes per slide.
Great for you. My budget is less.
Unless you are addressing an ADD self-help group, your audience is not going out the door after 15 seconds. To the contrary, if your slides are at all informative, then your audience will be distracted by trying to keep up with them.
I disagree strongly. When you have to sit through several hours of presentations a week, sometimes several hours a *day*, any talk that breaks up the monotony grabs people's attention and holds it tight. (We have standard templates that people use internally - I rarely use them, and only under duress... and I get routinely thanked for NOT using them, because it was something different to look at.) I budget at least one slide per 60sec of time - that usually gives me a good 15-20% left over at the end for questions, and I can take questions mid-stream as well. The actual run through, without any questions or interruptions, is much much faster. Under 20sec per slide isn't unusual for me. "Here's the image, here's the point, next slide." Most folks seem to think that the more crap they cram on one slide, the more important it looks. No. Choose a single point, choose a single image or a *couple* of words that illustrate it, and then just *say* the information surrounding it. When I hit the 60-75sec for a single slide, I stop and consider how I could break it up - are there two points here? Or is it one rather complex point? Can I seed some of the information on prior slides, so that this one is more of a summary, and less of a Large Point To Be Made All At Once? How will this affect the flow of the information being presented? etc, etc.
Of course, then I might have a single slide with a nice pretty picture on it as a placeholder while I interact with the class/audience for ten minutes doing some demonstration, so... yeah, it depends on the type of content. But if it's a slide I'm *referring* to, I like to keep it short and sweet. (Media playback times not withstanding.)
If your slides are that stand-alone informative that the audience has to take significant time to read them, then why are you there as the speaker? Why not just distribute slides, and save everyone's time? I can read the bloody things on my own a lot faster than someone can stand up there and read them. The slides are there to support *the presenter*, not the other way around.
If someone wants a transcript of the presentation (the number one justification for cramming everything on the slide), then you can add the presenter's notes to the PDF export, you can record the audio during the presentation to make a podcast out of it (Keynote supports this out of the box), or you can tell them they should have been at the meeting.
Oh, and bullet points are the devil's work.
The best presentations I've ever been to are the ones that the least is on the slides.
Required reading: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html and http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-...1yB&topic_id=1
I though Picasa might make a presentation, but Picasa requires an Intel Mac. I have a G4.
I made a slideshow with Preview, but when I tried to save it - no joy. I was unable to save it as a slideshow.
At times, I get an email containing a slideshow, but I can't find anyone who knows how to do that either.
Complete frustration! Any suggestions.
Thanks.
The .pps slideshows are PowerPoint only, and they're f*cking retarded. All it is is a bundle of absolutely bog-standard image files wrapped in a proprietary format. Bleah.
And as for your images -> PPT...
1) In Automator make a File/Folder workflow that takes the current Finder selection.
2) Select the Create Image Slide action for Keynote
3) Use it.
4) Export to PPT
For slideshows, use iPhoto.
And as for your images -> PPT...
1) In Automator make a File/Folder workflow that takes the current Finder selection.
2) Select the Create Image Slide action for Keynote
3) Use it.
4) Export to PPT
iPhoto doesn't appear in "Library" in my version of Automator. (Neither do several other Applications.) I'm using Tiger 4.11. Is that the reason? If not, how can I get iPhoto into the Automator Library?
No.... you're confusing two completely different routes there.
Drag the photos into iPhoto, make a slideshow.
OR
Use Automator to drive **Keynote**.
Huh?
No.... you're confusing two completely different routes there.
Drag the photos into iPhoto, make a slideshow.
OR
Use Automator to drive **Keynote**.
I must really be dense. I can't find a way to save the iPhoto slideshow after I've made it. I can export the slideshow to a QuickTime movie, but QT is not controllable by whoever is making the presentation and enlarging the movie makes it grainy.
How do you save the slideshow to a file, so it can be sent to someone else to use on another computer? I can do that with PowerPoint.
BTW, I don't have Keynote.
If you have images in iPhoto, just "select all" in the image pane of the folder you want, then drag them into the Keynote sidebar. Done.
No, really, you should just use Keynote. If compatibility is a problem you can always export it as a PP when you're done.
If you have images in iPhoto, just "select all" in the image pane of the folder you want, then drag them into the Keynote sidebar. Done.
I don't have Keynote, but thanks for the suggestion.
I don't have Keynote, but thanks for the suggestion.
I think this has been mentioned, but you can download the 90 day trial copy.
I think this has been mentioned, but you can download the 90 day trial copy.
Woot! I was unable to get Keynote to download before, but I tried downloading iWork09Trial (30 day trial) just now and it worked. I'm still waiting for the download to complete.
However, that doesn't answer my question about "Slideshow" on an email (MacMail). Any suggestions about that.
Not sure if that's what you're asking, though-- did you want to be able to apply slide show out of a different app, or export the results?
If you just want a slide show that runs on your computer, any of the above or iPhoto will work. If you need to export it as a QT movie, you'll need to use iPhoto. Or Keynote.