Talking technology
A few people have emailed asking how I do my show, as I mix video, still images and panning images with music. Well I used good old fashioned Mac Keynote (a slightly better version of Powerpoint, and the same program used by Al Gore in An inconvenient Truth). This is a normal bread and butter slide program that I find works well, and has a great interface for including video, allowing me to set when the video starts, which is a really useful feature. By using HD video, and high res shots, I can have what looks like a still image, suddenly begging to move, as I click and begin the movie (the still image is just a video frame). To create HD movies I used a fantastic program called FotoMagico (it’s a german program hence the Foto). This is by far the best slideshow program I’ve used BUT because it doesn’t work with video, unfortunately I can only make up short sections (some with sound, others just a single movie of one image), and export them as movie files, and so integrate them with my Keynote program.
Things have come a long way from a bunch of slides and a projector and a tape machine, but learning new ways of saying the same old thing is one of the most exciting parts of doing slideshows, and luckily the technology just gets better and better.
— October 09, 2008 03:04 PM
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