Open Beta for new PowerPoint companion

[Stephan Schaem]

Serious Magic, inc. recently released an open beta version of Ovation to
gather feedback from the PowerPoint community.
Ovation provide PowerPoint 2002/2003 a new theme rendering engine and a
navigation/presentation UI geared for dual screen setup.

We are looking for feedback from any PowerPoint users to help us make
Ovation the best product it can be.

For anyone just wanting to play around, the link below point to a fully
featured/functional beta of the final product.
The download is 53meg include ~20 or so themes with ~140 variations.
http://www.seriousmagic.com/products/presentations/PublicBeta.cfm

Thank you all in advance for your help,

Stephan

 

[John Fallon]

I've downloaded Ovation and been playing with it. The program certainly opens
new territory for PPT construction. Like with the basics of PPT itself, in my
case (education) I hope that the emphasis doesn't shift from a
content/message centric mode to pure multimedia events with loss of the
message. I've found that once people "discover" a new trick, they have a
tendancy to "overdo" it. Ovation could be a great product to incorporate into
education if it's not abused.

 

[Stephan Schaem]

Thanks for the comment and taking the time to look at the current state of the software.

The education sector is broad and cover some usage model that we wont cover it 1.0,
but if we are given the time, we will try our best to please 'everyone'

We actually have yet to really push the multimedia side, yet we know people are using more and more
video content in their presentation and its something we want to do right.
Deciding what goes in a 1.0 feature set a very hard thing to do, but we hope their is enough in this 1.0
to fuel further development.

Stephan