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Multimedia Lecture

This is the lecture mentioned in the previous post. This is a great use of PowerPoint and is a great teaching tool!

For this project I was supplied with two items:
1. Raw video recording of the instructor/presenter (recorded by professional video crew with monitored audio recording).
2. PowerPoint slide deck instructor used.

The project process was:
1. Edit video to remove long pauses, audience comments (no handheld microphone for audience, so to quiet to hear on recording), pan & zoom (crop) to bring presenter to full screen (especially important as video of instructor is small).
2. Optimize PowerPoint deck for use in video.
3. Sync lecture and slides (this is time consuming when there is no cue sheet or wide angle recording to see both the presenter and the projected slides – but I did learn a lot about molecular genetics as I listened to the full lecture 3-4X’s!).
4. Setup the interactive table of contents.
5. Render video(s), which were .flv format. Instructor at 29.97 FPS and slides at 5 FPS.
6. Prep for CDROM playback.
7. Prep for local computer (hard drive) playback.
8. Develop custom installer to automate process of copying files to computer, creating shortcuts, etc.
9. Develop the launch/install app. outlined in previous post.
10. Test, test, test.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:05:49-07:00February 12th, 2009|Portfolio|

Launch/Install App

Like many projects that I work on, this one involved lots of software:
– PowerPoint
– Photoshop
– Flash
– Installer development/coding
– Video Editing
– Camtasia Studio
– and more

The actual project was a multimedia video lecture (highlighted in next post). But to provide a professional piece and give the end user a visual interface this ‘Launch and Install’ application was developed. The end user received a CDROM and when they insert the CDROM this user-friendly application automatically runs.

The Launch-&-Install application gives an intuitve graphic interface to running the lecture from the CD, installing the lecture files onto their computer, or viewing a quick tutorial on the lecture playback controls and options.

On the technical side, the application runs in a 800x600px window that is moveable and weighed in at just over 1MB.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:06:21-07:00February 10th, 2009|Portfolio|

CD Label Art

Many projects need to have multiple items all coordinate. Here is the CD label from a multimedia project that I used the same visual elements and layout style for a Launcher Application, video lecture series and this CD label.

This is the client proof which shows the center of the CD and a keyline around the actual circumfrence. The graphics extend beyond the actual CD size to give the printing process ‘bleed’ just in case the printing is not perfectly centered. The final print-ready file that goes to the printer does not include either of the black overlays.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:06:40-07:00February 8th, 2009|Portfolio|

Event Program Cover

This was a fun, and personal, project. My oldest daughter joined a swim team last year. Her team hosted the fist swim meet of the year (12 other swim teams attended with over 500 registrations!). I was asked to help design the cover for the program – which I of course said yes to!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:07:47-07:00February 6th, 2009|Portfolio|

Hansen Communication Template

This is a really great PR oriented company that I am very happy to work with as a part of their extended team. They recently needed a fresh look for a number of internally created presentations so I developed this PowerPoint template.

Note: The 3rd slide is what I call the “Full Frame” master slide. This is closely coordinated with the standard content master, but has no title bar area and is for slides that have large, full frame, images or charts.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:08:12-07:00February 4th, 2009|Portfolio, Templates/Assets|

DVD Menu

Well I have been asked several times in the past few weeks what I have been working on, for examples of projects and if I really do anything… Hmmm, the website is a bit out dated and the blog has lots of tutorials but few samples. I can see where these statements are coming from as there is little current online proof that I really do work on lots of projects.

So most of this month will be dedicated to showing some examples of recent projects (at least the ones I can, as many are under NDA – and where needed I will substitute the TLC logo in place of company/event logos).

To kick things off – here is a DVD menu layout designed for a recent project (yes that’s greeking text to protect the innocent – me).

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:08:33-07:00February 2nd, 2009|Portfolio|

Free Christmas Template

Merry Christmas to everyone (a day early)!! As a small gift to everyone who visits ThePowerPointBlog.com here is a custom PowerPoint template for your use.

This is a full featured template with all master slide elements (text box position, text style – color – size, line spacing, slide transitions, default color scheme, etc.) pre-formatted. Template was setup in PPT 2003, the theme is ‘white christmas’ and it will hopefully find many wonderful uses. Click here to download.

Note: you can search ‘christmas’ to find templates from previous years too.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:13:07-07:00December 24th, 2008|Portfolio, Templates/Assets|

Making a Visual (Scoreboard)

Working on a recent project I thought this was a good example of the progression of a slide. The original speaker notes called for a slide that basically said they are ahead of the competition. Here is the slide they came up with:

During a slide review we moved to making this in to a visual that the speaker could use for an analogy. A football scoreboard was the solution. Here is what they came up with (‘they’ being the clients internal staff).

When I received the presentation to go through and clean up all slides here is the visual developed:

– All of numbers on the scoreboard were PPT WordArt (using PPT 2003) overlaid, so client can easily change to match analogy.
– Top of scoreboard was branded with client name (here I branded with TLC Creative)
– Hard to see here, but even the mascott is branded with the company initials on his hat (with TLC here)

The final slide ended up being animated with the numbers on the scoreboard (quater, score, time remaining until new product launch, etc.) changing as a quick history/timeline was presented!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:16:06-07:00December 11th, 2008|Portfolio|

Pixar Work

Here’s a quick photo of me and my computers for a recent meeting for Disney-Pixar (Toy Story is on the computer and a display for Cars is in the background). It’s always fun to be around the novelty of Pixar – and the meetings are a ton of fun (especially watching pre-release sections of movies :D).

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:17:56-07:00December 1st, 2008|Personal, Portfolio|
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