Have you already played around with the playlist?

Choose SETTINGS > PLAYLIST WINDOW

michiel, 10 years ago

Hello michiel,

thanks for coming back - yes thanks I have played around with it and as you suggest this is the only way I can see of controlling a live presentation possibly - I've experimented and used your built in shortcuts 'Control 'I' for full screen and then Alt Right / left keys to jump to each show / section, which seem to work well.

I would need to make each show start just like the previous one ended I think to make it seamless (as if using a presentation software)?

Ideally michiel, if it was possible I would like to have a simpler key combination (hence why AHK question) with less chance of me getting it wrong in front of a large audience or maybe a way to use a clicker?

I have recently been asked to build a presentation for an audience of 700+ and would have loved to have used your software so any suggestions :)

Has anybody else used it like this before I wonder?

Thanks again

John

JohnatSkillsloft, 10 years ago

Another option is to add NEXT SLIDE and PREVIOUS SLIDE buttons to every show.

You can set the show that is played when you click on those buttons in the link field of the LAYER > ACTIVE LAYER PROPERTIES... dialog.

michiel, 10 years ago

Hello michiel,

thanks for the suggestion it works well - however it does not seem to work in full screen for me and the mouse disappears (is that right?). To be honest user interaction would not be something I would use as the presentation would be driven by a backroom person or by the presenter themselves - in my experience some professional teams still use a blue light backstage (given by the presenter using a clicker) to tell them when to move on in the presentation and moving a mouse around on the screen night not look great for some clients.

Thanks michiel for your great product, maybe you would consider this and the inclusion of presenter tools in a future upgrade? - I understand that its not meant for this in the first place and I don't mean to tread on any toes :)

If I find out any tricks or workarounds I'll share it with you and the community.

Thanks again

John

JohnatSkillsloft, 10 years ago

Another option is to use 2 monitors.

On the 1st monitor you place the render window fullscreen and choose SETTINGS > MOVE MENU.

On the 2nd monitor you place the tool windows.

When you make sure your audience can only see the 1st monitor, for example by using a beamer, you can easily load, play, pause and stop shows on the 2nd monitor.

michiel, 10 years ago

Thanks michiel,

funny enough I have two monitors and I have been experimenting with this option (move the menu and also put out of browser mode and it goes full screen with workable controls on the other as you suggest).

I think it might also be possible to do this with one monitor and a beamer using extended screen mode but I need to play around with this a bit more.

Thanks again michiel

cheers

John

JohnatSkillsloft, 10 years ago

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