In article <bggqv4$g50$(E-Mail Removed)>,
"Tracy Thoman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello,
> Love this list!
>
> I've been tasked with developing a presentation that
> 1) needs to be cross platform, targeted for slightly older machines on both
> sides than current technology
> 2) self running on the client side
> 3) can be interactive with menus to install, say, QuickTime or something
> else is necessary
> 4) working from Windows XP environment with 2000/Adobe Premiere/Cleaner XL.
>
> This presentation will contain two video clips. I'm pretty PowerPoint
> savvy on the pc side, but throwing in the mac side as a part of the
> requirements, I'm wondering what that introduces other than considerations
> for video encoding approach and player accessibility from the CD...
>
> Here are my constraints, considerations:
> - clients are very computer illiterate; the least I have them do all the
> better
> - can bet on them not having PowerPoint installed, thus no viewer
This can be the biggest hurdle, since the most current viewer does't
support the latest features in PPT. Especially on the Mac side.
> - can also bet they don't have QuickTime installed on the mac side, much
> less the most current version of Windows Media Player
Well, yes they do have Quicktime, but what version of Quicktime? If they
are running OS 9, then they have QT 5, if they are on OS X, probably QT
6.
> - my goal is to make this totally as self-contained as possible so they can
> if possible just put the CD in the drive and go (both mac and PC sides).
> I'm familiar mainly with PC side on this, but don't know about mac.
>
> Do you think this is achievable? or do I need to approach these as two
> separate projects, one for PC self-running and another for Mac self-running?
> And am wondering if so for mac self-running, what the process is for
> accomplishing that.
Yes, but you have to do it on the Mac side, with the following
restrictions:
1. No multiple templates.
2. No multiple color schemes.
3. No fancy animations or transitions. In fact, use QuickTime
transitions if at all possible.
You can create the presentation on the PC, that's no problem, just don't
use any of the advanced features of PPT 2002/XP. Then you take it a Mac
with PPT X and all the lastest updates installed, and then save the
presentation as a PowerPoint Movie. It's a special form of QuickTime,
but QT 5 or later will handle it. It does mean that people on Windows
machines have to have QT for windows installed.
It will support hyperlinks, and a couple of other features, make a short
one to find out what will and won't work. Testing will save you hours of
needless work.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Tracy
> Presentation Developer, OraMetrix, Inc.
>
>
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