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Remotely Controlling Picture Slideshows From One Central Location to Thirty Remote Locations

I work for a company that has 30 convenience store locations and we're looking to have display screens in all the stores that play the same content. We want to be able to remotely control the content ...
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Best and affordable way for great slideshows on a HDTV [closed]

The need - to allow my non-technical family members to access our media library (our pictures and movie clips). My setup is: Upstairs desktop Windows Vista machine with 1TB of media files on it, ...
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Create movies from images and sound files scripting transitions using Linux console?

I need a Linux command-line program that can: Accept some kind of scripting language capable of transitions (fade, scale...) Generate movie files like AVI, MKV etc from images like JPG, PNG, and ...
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Convert .ppt to Word - with proper headings, font-sizes and page-sizes

Good evening, How do I convert a PPT to .docx [or .odt, or something!], in such a way as it will downsize all size all the text to "normal" font-sizes and page-sizes? Thanks for all suggestions, ...
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Rehearse slideshow and record audio and speaker with webcam

Using my MacBook Pro unibody 2008 and OS X Lion, I am rehearsing a slideshow with PowerPoint for Mac 2011. In some video tutorials I have seen how people record their voice, their face (using the ...
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More customized desktop slideshow power settings

Is there any way I can have a desktop slideshow while my laptop is plugged in, but only a certain image when on battery? I know how to pause the slideshow on battery power, but I don't want a ...
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is there a way to have a remote slideshow on Windows?

I have a PDF slideshow (not PowerPoint), and I want to present the slideshow to someone remotely. I can use Skype for the voice, but I want to also be able to have the slides he sees synchronized with ...
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Program for making blu-ray slideshow movies of photos (simple, cheap or free)?

Can you recommend a program for making blu-ray slideshow movies of photos (free or cheap)? for burning photo slideshow movies to blu-ray for watching on any standard settop consumer blu-ray player. ...
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Last slide in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow is always black

The last slide in my slideshow comes up as a black screen. I've tried all of the recommendations in PowerPoint Help but it makes no difference which slide I put in the last position; it always comes ...
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Slideshow software for three screen setup

I'd like to create a 10 minute slideshow for a party. At the party location, there are three side-by-side screens available and I'd like to take advantage of them. For example, I'd like a to show ...
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Pixelated PDF in Apple Preview slideshow mode, but not in regular window

I have a PDF which is a presentation exported from OpenOffice. Two of the slides in this presentation have embedded .eps graphs. When I run the presentation using Preview's slideshow mode, the ...
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Program to make photo slideshow

I have been looking for a program for creating photo slideshows. I found this video on YouTube which shows the exact kind of slideshow I want to create: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsk8RwmGnI ...
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How can I show only selected slides in a PPT slide show?

I have a large deck of over 150 slides containing several sections, each one with its "customs show list" of 5-10 slides. When showing all sections to a customer, he shows me which specific points he ...
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Is there a gadget or other way to display the wallpaper file name in Windows 7?

I have my wallpaper set to SlideShow from my Pictures folder. Sometimes, I'd like to know which picture I'm looking at. Is there a gadget or other way to display the wallpaper file name in Windows ...
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How to extract all images from a PowerPoint presentation?

I have a PowerPoint presentation that is basically a slideshow. How can I extract all the images into a folder? I've seen articles that direct you to save the presentation as HTML, but this file ...
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OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress messing up master slides when saving in native (ODP) format

I want to have several master slides in my presentation so I created them in View ► Master ► Slide Master. The background images of my master slides are different (I added the images to each master ...
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Dynamic/interactive slideshows in Ubuntu

I'm trying to display a full-screen slideshow, but some of the slides will have internet-enabled/interactive content (news, weather, twitter trends). Is there any software package or combination ...
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animation in presentation

I am looking for animation tools to make my presentation, the goal is to create something like this: A Youtube video of an animated clip Well, the animation in powerepoint reach its limit when i am ...
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OSX: Text to Slides

I'm looking for a Mac OSX app that simply takes a text file I've written and converts it to pretty presentation slides, preferably as a PDF. A simple markup language in the style of Markdown would be ...
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h264 Slideshow Maker

I've been using Windows Movie Maker to make slideshows with musical backdrops. The two problems are (A) the maximum output resolution is 640x480 and (B) it only exports in the WMV encoding. I would ...
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Generate PowerPoint based on template with data from csv file?

I'd like to create a simple slideshow, each slide has an image, plays an audio file, and has a title. I have the data in a csv file that looks like this: Hello,aud001.mp3,img001.jpg Any suggestions ...
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What software besides PowerPoint can put all the pictures together into one movie and play them as one motion picture?

I have a lot of jpg files that are all just like film frames of one motion film, so I want to connect them together into one movie - is there any software besides PowerPoint that can make it? If you ...
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MS Power Point 2003: How to play all the slides quickly one after another - just like in a movie?

I have a lot of slides in my PowerPoint application and they all are just like film frames of one motion film, so I want to play back them all very quickly - is it possible in Power Point?
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Creating a Movie (or SlideShow) with some Music

Need your advice please :) I want to create a movie or slide show of some pictures and while playing the slide show or that movie I would like to embed few music files. For example I could then burn ...
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Looking for a video of a presentation/talk related to technology employing many slides in a fast manner [closed]

This may be OT but I hope some of you have seen the talk and remember what it was about so I can find it. The presentation was given by a male human, about 30, and cut between a video of him speaking ...
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How to convert single images into a video with blending transition?

I would like to convert a series of webcam images into an animation/film/movie/video. Because there is a lot of motion between images, I want a fading/blending transition between images. Many Windows ...
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How can I create a full-screen slideshow that fades into a collage?

I want to create a full-screen slideshow to run on a monitor in the window of a realtor. I'd like to be able to have the pictures of a particular property arranged as a collage and each one "pop out" ...
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How to hide subheadings from powerpoint presentation (when in show mode)?

I have a slide containing text: This is a heading this is a subheading this is a subheading This is a heading this ia a subheading this is a subheading When putting this slide on show, I would ...
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Free or open source software for slide presentation? [closed]

If I don't want to use PowerPoint, is OpenOffice Impress my best choice for a slide presentation?
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What software is Hans Rosling using in this presentation?

In Hans Rosling's presentation on Human Development Trends he shows a scatter plot which explodes in to subsets of data. Does anyone know what software was used to create this presentation? I have ...
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How to make a music video slideshow in OSX

I want to make a video that consists of a picture slideshow and background music which I will upload to youtube. Does OSX come with any apps to do this?
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Shortcut key for fullscreen of current slide PowerPoint

What is the shortcut key for starting the slid show from the selected or active slide?
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Which program can I use to make slideshow with embedded sound?

I'd like to make a slideshow with an embedded music which plays in background. A time for each slide should be fixed because it is bound to music melody. What program can I use to do it? I've thought ...
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Playing sound automatically when transitioning to a slide in Powerpoint 2007

How do I make a sound play when I transition to a certain slide?
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What presentation software should I use for a five minute talk?

I am giving a lightning talk shortly and need to put together some slides. It is a technical talk about Perl documentation. I will be using a OS X machine to run the presentation software. I would ...
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Simplest way to add stills to MP3 audio soundtrack

I have some audio and want to add visuals to it and upload to YouTube. Nothing fancy, just like slides, image_A from 00:00:00 to 00:00:05 then image_B from 00:00:50 to 00:00:30 and so on. I have ...
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How do I configure the Windows 7 slide show delay?

How do I configure the Windows 7 slide show delay? I'd like to set the delay to either wait until I click the mouse to go to next item or set the delay time in seconds much higher than the default, ...
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Free-flow Alternative to Powerpoint?

So I've been digging around the net trying to find a good set of alternatives to Powerpoint. Part of my interest is that I found one, Prezi, that I liked for it's free-form style. Part of the power ...
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iDVD Random Transitions

I am creating a dvd slide show using iDVD and I see how to add transtions manually but what I would like to do is have iDVD insert random transitions for me. Is this possible?
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How do I make a video, with some effects, from images?

I want to make a video/slideshow from several images with some effects in Linux! What programs do u recommend excluding FFmpeg?
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Convert .png images into a .ppt presentation on Linux?

I've created a presentation as a series of .png images, one per slide. What is a good way to convert these into a .ppt (PowerPoint) that I can give to some audio-visual person? I'm entirely on ...
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Two different slide designs in a single PowerPoint presentation

Is it even possible to do that? If so, what's the easiest way to achieve this?
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Successfully concatenating multiple videos

My mission is to create videos out of old web slideshows. To start with I have jpegs and audio files that worked as Flash slideshows in an old system, structured such as this: Audio structure ...
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Best software for making photos slide show

I intend to create a photo slide shows for March 8th . I've tried Photoshow but I don't have unicode support . I'm looking for the one with a lot of effects and caption support :) Thanks so much :)
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Fullscreen Photo/Video Slideshow App?

I have a folder that contains a lot of subfolders which include photos and/or videos. Is there any free application that would display them in a random slideshow? It's something I want to run on a PC ...
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How to create a zooming effect in a slideshow presentation?

I would like to create a presentation, similar to Power Point slides, but with a Google Maps feature. When you zoom in in Google Maps, the content becomes more detailed. That's exactly what I need for ...
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which command line I should run to open Power Point, say, the seventh slide on the whole screen?

Let's say I have a POWER POINT document named "trees" and I want to automatically open the seventh slide in it in the full-theater view (I mean the whole screen), which command line do I need to run? ...
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Easiest way to playback jpg on a stand-alone LCD monitor

I have an LCD on a stand and I want to playback some pictures. One way would be to get an LCD with a media card reader and just put those pictures on there. Are there any other solutions out there? ...
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Alternative to slideshare.net? [closed]

Alternative to slideshare.net?
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How can I set the time that Windows 7 changes the background in the background slideshow?

I've set up my Windows 7 background slideshow with a few choice wallpapers and set it to cycle daily, nothing excessive. Glad to see this feature built into Windows now. My problem is that the change ...

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