Hey, what do you guys say that we format our Degree Project Presentations in Keynote? The primary reason I think we should push for this is because you can put interactive SWF files into the program itself to run them (without having to switch over to another application).
It's available for a free 30-day free trial on Apple's site.
comment so I can get some confirmations
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if you could just quickly describe the process that we'd have to go through. i'd really rather make mine in indesign but i have no idea what keynote is like.
I'd rather stick to in design with pdf
mainly because I will be helping put them all together and I have never used it.
how were you going to show your interactive work, Tyler?
we're getting the trial tonight to mess around with it. according to galloway it's a lot like power point, only it has way more options for media. maybe we can show it to the presentation team tomorrow and see what they think. however if the class wants to do pdfs, then those of us who want to incorporate new media into our presentations will need to use keynote, and we will just have to switch as we start.
layout and typography is a little more painful in keynote than in indesign, but you can do lots of things that make it easy to do nice slides. you can "build" a slide line by line, so you only make one slide, but it breaks it apart into multiple slides where a new line of text is added each time you advance. you can also do nice fades between slides. importing .swfs and .mov files is really smooth and easy. for .mov files, when you're presenting, you just roll over the movie and a controller pops up to pause, play, rewind, or stop the movie. we don't have class until wed, but if you all want, i can do a quick demo to show you the basic stuff i've learned so far.
I'm fine either way. Though having 16 of us learning this new program in a week to put together a presentation might be problematic.
I'm also a little worried about using keynote, but I can give it a try if the majority of the class really wants it. The presentation team is literally just Tyler and me now, so hopefully after Tyler's tutorial we will have a good gist of how it works.
Is it possible at all to create layouts from indesign or illustrator and import them to keynote so that we wouldn't have to worry about the complicated typography use?
andrea -- i guess you could make pdfs of each page and import them into keynote, but unless you have .mov or .swf files, you're better off just doing it in indesign. the main reason you'd use keynote over a pdf is because of the media importing. or if you are hell-bent on doing snazzy transitions between slides.
i'll do a keynote demo wednesday morning.
i'm down for whatever
what's there left to wait for?
----obvious reference---- (i hope)
i tried messing around with keynote a little today and there's just no way i can learn it and produce my document by friday. pdf is how i've been planning all along to present visuals, and changing it now will just make me freak out trying to master something that just isn't necessary. i don't think the transitions add anything to my presentation, and i don't have other media to fit in so i want to keep mine just a pdf. it would be nice to have a consistency, but i don't think it's that important in the big picture of the presentations.
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