Power point should have a teleprompter feature

[hackeye]

I hope the new version of power point will include a teleprompter capability.
I would like for its speed to be controlled by the reverse and advance
buttons. It would also be great if you can use the telepromter feature from
you main screen while your power point prestation appears on your
presentation screen. This would mean that the software would have to allow to
put tags within the teleprompter text so that your slides would automatically
advance at the proper time.

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[John Wilson]

Presenter view pretty well does this. I can do without the auto slide advance
it would be a presenters nightmare!
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[Austin Myers]

Well, I suppose that would "fix" the need to know what your talking about
when you give a presentation. Heck, maybe you could even have one of the
animation assistants use voice and read it for you. <g>


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[hackeye]

Thanks for your response. I personally would'nt use the teleprompter mode I
was just thinking of how it might help someone especially if they are
recording a speech on video so they don't have to look down. I have been
using power point for a while now and certainly still have more to learn but
the only way I could find of emulatiing a teleprompter was by applying the
credit animation and setting a custom time so that the text flows slow enough
to read. The only problem is that you cannot pause it, slow it down or speed
it up.

 

[hackeye]

Wow that was a lot of help thanks. It must of taking a great deal of time
thank of that.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You hit a sore spot with a lot of professional presenters. Having sat thru
too many presentations where the person at the podium reads the slides, or
knows nothing about their topic, I have to admit, this was my first response
as well. If they included a tool to make this happen more often, I would be
forced to start kicking out the projector plugs.

One of the main points made by many professional folks in the presentation
business is that the person doing the talking is the primary reason people
are sitting in the audience and the PowerPoint is there to supplement and
enhance, not replace. Most people reading from a script do so rather
poorly. A teleprompter is a tool that requires a lot of learning and
practice to carry off well. Otherwise, it looks and sounds like you are
reading a script. Most presenters would do better from a few notes using
the native PowerPoint tool 'Presenter View' on a dual-monitor setup, than
from a teleprompter set-up.


Now, having said all that ...
You can design a PowerPoint presentation to run a teleprompter-like set-up.
You will need, a powerful computer (you will be running 2 presentations off
of it), at least 2 independent video VGA (or equivalent) outputs, a
projector, a VGA to RCA adapter, a TV, a mirror, a Plexiglas reflector on a
stand, a copy of PowerShow, and a whole rat's nest of cables.

The basics are to set up the projector to run the main presentation, and the
2nd video output => VGA to RCA converter => TV => Mirror => Plexiglas to
show the script. The two presentations are controlled from the same
controls on the computer (a PowerShow bonus) and stay in sync (if they were
laid out correctly). It is doable, but for all the reasons listed in the
beginning, I would hope you find a better solution.


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[Austin Myers]

Not to be mean but, if you read it and think it through, there was a great
deal of help in it. <g> I was trying to say in a friendly way that it was a
bad idea and I don't think you could ever get MS to do it.


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[hackeye]

Ok thanks I'll scratch that idea. Like I said I was just thinking of those
who use a tele-prompter.