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28 June 2006

Ask MeCha: What alternatives are there to PowersuckassnontransferablePoint for making a slide show with sound?

post by: chewatadistance at: 07:45 | 10 comments

There's OpenOffice Impress. You can save presentations in its own format, in PowersuckassnontransferablePoint format, or in XML (I think).

posted by clevershark 28 June | 07:59

Funny you should mention - I was just poking around on Impress, but couldn't find the sound part of it. Otherwise it looks like a good possibility, if somewhat on the geeky side.

For some reason I have a mental block against Flash, but that was mentioned awhile back also.

Any others, cough 'em up!

posted by chewatadistance 28 June | 08:04

You can use Opera, too. With voice-control, in fact.

posted by signal 28 June | 08:07

Actually in version 2.0 you can import pretty much any movie or sound file into an Impress presentation.

posted by clevershark 28 June | 08:09

Flash 8 professional has a slideshow mode which turns into a sort of more versatile PPoint, with much better support for video.

posted by signal 28 June | 08:16

Puppets!

posted by rainbaby 28 June | 08:33

"The optimum number of slides in a PowerPoint presentation is zero." -- Edward Tufte

posted by warbaby 28 June | 08:50

The answer to your question is: two carousel projectors with a dissolve unit and a CD player that does MP3s.

or Puppets and a kazoo.

Digital resolution sucks.

posted by warbaby 28 June | 08:56

Apple Keynote

posted by AlexReynolds 28 June | 09:36

Powerpoint makes you dumb.

posted by clevershark 28 June | 10:33

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