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From: Max Arwood on 12 Apr 2008 22:22 I will be doing more powerpoint this year at church. I want to put it on my DAW, but I don't want stuff running in the background. Does powerpoint have background task that load into your computer? Any other problems that I might have with it on my daw? Thanks, Max Arwood
From: Sue Morton on 12 Apr 2008 22:51 No background or other memory resident processes. It's a resource hog but only when you run it! I do some Powerpoint for my employer and for church. The biggest problem I've had with it is automated timings. For church I do slides that sync with songs played external to the presentation (e.g. I have the powerpoint operator start the show after the first bar or a count-in). I can get the timings down solid at home, then take the ppt to the church PC and the timings will run differently. Way differently, cumulative many seconds slow or fast over the entire show. At my employer's I've rehearsed timings on dozens of "identical" PCs using the same version of Powerpoint, and they all run differently. The free Powerpoint Viewer, on the other hand, has been completely consistent in timings, from machine to machine, independent of cpu, ram, disk, etc It may run differently than the regular powerpoint it was developed on, but the Viewer will run it the same way every time on every machine. The PPT Viewer, however, does not have the option to extend to second desktop/monitor so is very hard to use for worship or even important presentations at work. I end up developing the powerpoint at home, then taking it to church on an evening when the Sanctuary is not in use, and rehersing the timings with the music over and ovre until they run the way I want them to, on the church PC. I did trial a few programs that convert powerpoint to video, which should make the whole timing sync thing foolproof. However, I had various troubles with these and so never invested in one. -- Sue Morton Max Arwood wrote: > I will be doing more powerpoint this year at church. I want to put > it on my DAW, but I don't want stuff running in the background. Does > powerpoint have background task that load into your computer? Any > other problems that I might have with it on my daw? > > Thanks, > Max Arwood
From: R. Lamar Duffy on 12 Apr 2008 23:18 Ditto on Sue's PowerPoint comments. It seems like every different computer, every different version, every different installation of the same version, etc, behaves a little differently. And that doesn't even get into having the right fonts loaded, & if you want to try to make it play multimedia files. But it won't mess up your DAW. I have an aerospace engineer friend, who I once told I was "trying to show PowerPoint who is boss." A day later he Emailed back: "PowerPoint KNOWS who's boss." Cheers, Lamar
From: Max Arwood on 12 Apr 2008 23:23 Thanks Sue! I have used Vegas to do the timed words to songs thing. It works great. All you have to do is to drop the wave to an empty track, then add a video track. You just type the words like you would in PP into tese little text blocks. The frames "word blocks" are easy to move. You can quite easily align them to the visual bumps of the audio track. I then export them to WMV. The WMV's load into power point easily. When you move the imported video slide the music starts and the words are timed as you put them. To me it is a little tricky because you need the words on the screen in time so that the projector can project, the eye can see, the brain can think, and the mouth and vocal cords can make the sounds. Tricky trick timing for sure! I can't imaging how long it would take to do the timing in Power point! Thanks again, Max Arwood "Sue Morton" <867-5309(a)domain.invalid> wrote in message news:yyeMj.412$ix6.166(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.net... > No background or other memory resident processes. It's a resource hog but > only when you run it! > > I do some Powerpoint for my employer and for church. The biggest problem > I've had with it is automated timings. For church I do slides that sync > with songs played external to the presentation (e.g. I have the powerpoint > operator start the show after the first bar or a count-in). > > I can get the timings down solid at home, then take the ppt to the church > PC and the timings will run differently. Way differently, cumulative many > seconds slow or fast over the entire show. At my employer's I've > rehearsed timings on dozens of "identical" PCs using the same version of > Powerpoint, and they all run differently. > > The free Powerpoint Viewer, on the other hand, has been completely > consistent in timings, from machine to machine, independent of cpu, ram, > disk, etc It may run differently than the regular powerpoint it was > developed on, but the Viewer will run it the same way every time on every > machine. The PPT Viewer, however, does not have the option to extend to > second desktop/monitor so is very hard to use for worship or even > important presentations at work. > > I end up developing the powerpoint at home, then taking it to church on an > evening when the Sanctuary is not in use, and rehersing the timings with > the music over and ovre until they run the way I want them to, on the > church PC. > > I did trial a few programs that convert powerpoint to video, which should > make the whole timing sync thing foolproof. However, I had various > troubles with these and so never invested in one. > -- > Sue Morton > > Max Arwood wrote: >> I will be doing more powerpoint this year at church. I want to put >> it on my DAW, but I don't want stuff running in the background. Does >> powerpoint have background task that load into your computer? Any >> other problems that I might have with it on my daw? >> >> Thanks, >> Max Arwood > >
From: Max Arwood on 12 Apr 2008 23:25 LOL. Thanks Lamar! Max Arwood "R. Lamar Duffy" <rldmdN0Spam(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:ZXeMj.32300$dT.25931(a)bignews1.bellsouth.net... > Ditto on Sue's PowerPoint comments. It seems like every different > computer, every different version, every different installation of the > same version, etc, behaves a little differently. And that doesn't even > get into having the right fonts loaded, & if you want to try to make it > play multimedia files. But it won't mess up your DAW. > > I have an aerospace engineer friend, who I once told I was "trying to show > PowerPoint who is boss." > > A day later he Emailed back: "PowerPoint KNOWS who's boss." > > Cheers, > > Lamar >
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