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Presentation Timer & Message Software


Columbine24

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I wrote one yonks ago. Designed as a dual screen system.

http://www.warre.co.uk/w4messages/

 

MUCH more user-friendly for presentation work, & no 100ths flickering away. I'm now working out how to give the presenter his powerpoint & his countdown on a pair of screens without any risk of compromising the powerpoint feed.

 

Cracked it! Don't need the 2nd screen - Powerpoint in 2-screen mode, countdown parked on top of the dreaded ribbon, & start/stop tucked away in bottom RH corner.

 

Just realised this only works if the presenter has the laptop in front of him/her, which make starting the clock a bit tricky! Pish!!

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I played with the principle of making a video based one.No messaging though

 

I laid a BITC on a time line in final cut and thought about making the background screen change colour near the end.I would then make a DVD with buttons that did common times so that the same timeline would be triggered as chapters Say 5 min intervals then every min after 15

So using a simple portable DVD player and possibly a second video monitor, it would be a simple self contained system

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I played with the principle of making a video based one.No messaging though

 

I laid a BITC on a time line in final cut and thought about making the background screen change colour near the end.I would then make a DVD with buttons that did common times so that the same timeline would be triggered as chapters Say 5 min intervals then every min after 15

So using a simple portable DVD player and possibly a second video monitor, it would be a simple self contained system

 

That sounds neat - did you get beyond thinking about it? I guess one could maybe make a DVD of Beware's countdown, divided into chapters. It would be useful for pub comedy nights, where you wouldn't want to leave an unattended laptop, but might risk a cheap portable DVD player.

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no I didn't but if I have time over the weekend I will knock something basic up

 

I have a small ( richer sounds/philips) personal DVD player ( like a small laptop) and it has a monitor out plus an IR remote.

I bought it for a relative who was in hospital but it never got used. hit was about £50 at the time but CPC must do something

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Beware the current cheap Philips - non-standard 4-pole socket, no PSU & no instructions, especially no indication of the non-standard wiring. A friend bought one for a church system. By the time it was installed it would have been much cheaper to buy a decent one.
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