I do not understand a thing that Carl Pultz wrote.  Our presenters come
from all over the country and all over the world.  We each have our own
personal equipment.  Most of us are not computer experts.  You cannot
possibly consider that there would be one standard that all the
presenters must meet.  You expect us to go out and get new equipment
just to make an unpaid presentation that WE end up having to pay for
because we have to travel, pay for our rooms, AND conference
registration.  AND finish these things far enough in advance that
someone --WHO????-- would pre-load onto equipment that the organization
does not have.  This seems to mean three times the amount of work FOR NO
REASON AT ALL.  Just to make it easy for some techie who nobody has met
and would have different equipment every year at our different
locations.  

What is not understood is that the techie is working an audio mixer and
a video projector, and a CD/DVD player, and maybe a computer.  We give
him our CDs, DVDs, and maybe thumb drives, or else plug in our own
computers.  We arrive the day before or the day of our presentations. 
We are updating and editing our presentations the day before or the day
of.  

Consistency????  Put the audio on a CD.  Put the video on a DVD.  Put
the powerpoint or graphics on a thumb drive.  What kind of an app are
you thinking of????

Mike Biel [log in to unmask]  

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Tip for ARSC Conference presenters --
reinforcing previous lessons
From: Carl Pultz <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, February 24, 2013 10:04 pm
To: [log in to unmask]

In which case there is no substitute for consistancy. All the
presentations
should run the same way, from the same media, with the same visual
formatting of documentation. Each one should be so simple a child could
do
it, because that's who you may be depending on.

Is there one app you can specify to the contractor, or bring to the
conference, that will play both visual and aural elements? You can then
publish out to the presenters detailed info to meet that standard. I'd
suggest everything come in on memory sticks, or, better, be pre-loaded
on
the systems; no CDs, no switching computers. Advantages include easy
copying
and sharing - a speaker could send it to the "Presentation Technical
Standards Committee" for a test drive on the approved platform. Those
platforms, ie laptops, could then be provided to the AV operators from
which
to run the day's shows.

If I was running one of these things, after a night of rock-band
PA-mixing
and debauchery, possessing minimal comprehension and language skills,
I'd
love to open My Documents and see:

ARSC Presentations\Thursday\Morning\Session 1 10:00am\Presentation
1\Uncle
Dave Shocks.ppt
ARSC Presentations\Thursday\Morning\Session 1 10:00am\Presentation
2\Steve
Smolian Amazes.ppt

Etc, etc.

Don't know if PowerPoint will support embedded audio at CD quality, but
treating all elements as slides seems like a slick solution. If there's
a
clicker at the podium, you are in control of everything but the volume.

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From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Smolian
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 5:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Tip for ARSC Conference presenters --
reinforcing
previous lessons

Many hotels have strict union rules forbidding this.

Steve Smolian

-----Original Message----- 
From: Frank Strauss
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 3:50 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Tip for ARSC Conference presenters --
reinforcing 
previous lessons

> One approach could be to rent the equipement and installation locally, but
> ARSC have its own operators. Hands?
>
> I have been the AV boy for a local Rotary Club for many years, from back
in the days of the Kodak Carousel, and I sometimes wish for the return
of
the Carousel, when the worst emergency was a blown bulb or a slide that
wouldn't drop. One of the most stressful situations you can have is when
the speaker shows up, often a little late, and his/her laptop doesn't
like
our projector/sound system, or the speaker brings his/her presentation
on
non/semi compatible media. MS has planted enough little time bombs in
the
different versions of Windows and PP, so that the 5 minutes before the
presentation can be excruciating. The worst case scenario is when the
speaker shows up with a MAC, and doesn't realize we have a VGA
projector,
even though that information was sent to him/her prior to the meeting.
They
assume we have a converter/adapter and we assume they have done it
before,
and have the necessary equipment. There is no substitute for operator
expertise and experience. Also, a very valid point was raised about what
is on your PP slide. Way too many people put a slide up and then read it
word for word. Another annoyance is the use of random slide transitions.
Just because they are there, you don't need to use them. Maybe a good
subject for a presentation at an ARSC convention would be how to put a
presentation together, including how to make things work in the 5
minutes
before show time.


-- 
Frank B Strauss, DMD