http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/ Engadget Comments for HOW-TO: Put PowerPoint on your iPod Photo http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
Other than that, great idea!]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
- make your text-y frames in photoshop.
- export as jpgs at whatever res you want. res it out to a tv or a proj, which ever, you can do both as actions in PS.
- import to avid/premiere/imovie.
- edit each text-y frame into whatever you want. If you numbered them sequentially, then it should work fine.
- you can even test out music tracks beneath the 'video' layers by extending each jpg to the cut of each beat.
- load into ipod.
- play rad presentation for co-workers like you know what the internet is.

Why is this machine such a workaround?

Why can't it be more what it should be?

Most people are tools. Not everyone has the desire to scroll through thousands of frames trying to match it up to the audio in hopes of playing a movie. These things should be easy.

as a side note, I have a 3GiPod. I love the thing to death. 4G was cool, but the idea that Jobs could pan off this 'lil colour screen as a photo-up? This thing isn't upgraded until it can play any codec-ed file (mp3/aac/mp4/avi/divx/xvid/whatever) to a TV via s-video and 1/4"...

and HE KNOWS IT.

I'll upgrade gladly when they do.

Until then, it's still the best damned jukebox around.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Worth a try if the snazzy effects are important to you...]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/What about using a Navipod as a remote?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
My iPod photo has just arrived and I will be using this process when I deliver a presentation at the end of November.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
One question. How can you pull off the same thing with a Palm? I've got a Palm Tungsten T3 and have tried (with overwhelming failure) to try to splice the T3's cradle cord or Zip Linq into the three RCA outputs.

Here's what I'd love to be able to do. I've got my Palm, I've got my connector Palm to RCA cable and I can walk up to any TV and plug it directly into the RCA inputs of that tv. So the tv is nothing more than a glorified monitor.

Call it a "presentation in the key of kick ass".

Because that would be much more portable than having to lug around a projector and its hardware.

Plus, with Palm's built-in slide show, you can dump having to use PowerPoint (aka "The Spawn of Satan"). Because the phrase "I want to show you this PowerPoint presentation" doesn't exactly cause people to spontaneously break out into wild cheers.

Any ideas on how I can pull this off?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/As far as I undestand, no transitions nor embedded animations.
As there has been details on passing QT movies on ordinary iPods for almost one year now, I'll wait for transitions to be added :-)
Herv?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
It will be pretty embarassing if the slide looks poor. I think the poor quality is probably due to two conversions.

So unless they support natural PPT or quicktime, I guess I will hold on to the purchase of ipod photo. But, if they support quicktime, it will be iphoto movie, not ipod photo. To me, right now, ipod photo is not well made. They have so many possibilities, but only provided photo.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/]]>MDG]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
http://www.tuaw.com/entry/1234000207026691/

awwwww, yeah!]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
The Apple cable that plugs into the headphone port for AV works better than the dock. You can hold the iPod and step back and forth thru the slides, using it like a wired remote.

The port is very slightly better image though because it is S-Video vs just composite video.

The music along with the slide show is a nice perk with the iPod. Makes for a nice presentation.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/how-to-put-powerpoint-on-your-ipod-photo/
Anyone else have the same problem and if so how did you solve it?

Thanks!
Scott
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Renamer is pretty much self-explanatory, but, just for the record, here are the settings I use. First, click the "+" and select the folder with the tif files and select "open". Click the highlighted button, "add files recursively". Then select "number" from the drag-down menu, and "001, 002, 003,... " from "number format" (assuming you have less than 1000 slides). Under "text-format", select "text - number" and under "Text" enter, say, "Slide". In the lower-left drag-down, select "name only". You'll see the new names appear in light blue next to the current names, so you can check that it's going to do the right thing. If it looks good, click "Rename Files" and you're done.

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I don't know how you could get transitions out of PP without a lot of work, but a program like Flash or Premiere could be used to make and export animations. The ipod video does play movies, but only a specific mp4 format. Search for "ipod video convert", then drag the video files onto iTune's Library (dragging to the video folder doesn't work for some reason).]]>Jan 6th 2006 2:44PM