mixed display orientation

[Kyle]

My church is moving into the 21st century and getting an LCD projector
for use (among other things) during worship. My question has to do
with being able to mix presentation orientation - note, not slide
orientation, but the orientation of the presentation itself. To
explain:

I'm looking at mounting our projector on the side wall of the
sanctuary, so the image projected is in 3:4 aspect ratio - 6' wide and
8' high. This would facilitate projection of lyrics to hymns,
Scripture, etc.

Now, one method of doing this is to create landscape-oriented slides
and rotate all text boxes and images 90 degrees so that, when
projected by the sideways projector, everything looks normal. But that
creates a major headache in creating presentations each week.

What I'm hoping is that I could create slides in portrait orientation
so they're easily readable/editable while working on them, but when in
presentation mode PP would rotate the presentation 90 degrees...and
then the slides would look fine on the screen.

Any suggestions? Or should I look within Windows' settings for
something like this? Or am I confusing the heck out of everyone?

Arigato!

 

[Guest]

Hi Kyle

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem here but doesn't File > page setup >
(slides) portrait solve your problem?

 

[Ute Simon]

How many persons are preparing those slides? If it's only you, you might
want to buy a monitor that can be rotated by 90 degrees to prepare the
slides. If there are many persons working on the slides, you might check
whether it's affordable for all of them.

But generally, I would not recommend to set up this non-standard scenario.
Find a wall, where you can project the slides in "normal" landscape
orientation, without need to mount the projector sideways. If the text you
want to project does not fit on one landscape slide, use two or more slides
and split it up. It will be easier for the readers, if they have slides with
not so much text on them.

And if you use the standard orientation, you will be able to exchange
slides with other churches or take them along to other venues.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Guest]

I probably should have added - Dont mount the projector sideways

 

[Kyle]

No, because what I was thinking was to mount the projector sideways,
giving the image a 3:4 aspect ration rather than a 4:3. I came up with
this idea because when I worked at Johns Hopkins' School of Public
Health, they had flat-panel monitors all over the School with
information on them, and the monitors were oriented sideways. I
thought it was an effective way of displaying short lines of
information more clearly.

The problem for doing worship projection that way is that all the
slides would have to be constructed sideways, and the people creating
the slides would have to tilt their heads to work on them. I was
hoping what was possible was to create on-screen presentation slides
in portrait orientation and then have PowerPoint rotate them when
projected.

I probably should have added - Dont mount the projector sideways

Ah. Well, then, moot point, huh? Is that because sideways is bad for
the projector usually?