http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:33:50 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000146.html If you purchase the MS Producer resource disk available here HERE you will find it contains an example of a Captioned Video template, along with this white paper captioning in Producer (MS Word format) I found the one captioning template on the CD (captioned video with fixed-size slides) was a good beginning but quickly realized I needed several others. I... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000138.html Producer has a bookmarking feature that makes it start up wherever you last left off. Unfortunately, this behavior simply confuses many of our users, who barely notice the Table of Contents. It turns out you can force the presentation to start at the beginning by adding #event=1 to the link to the presentation. Thanks to Roger Swearingeh on the microsoft.public.producer... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000082.html A client gave me a powerpoint presentation recently that contained a lot of symbols: arrows, greater-than-or-equal-to signs, and the like. They showed up fine in the powerpoint, but once incorporated into an MS Producer presentation, and published, they disappeared, or changed into letters. It turns out the reason for this is that fonts are embedded into powerpoint presentations, but Producer... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000047.html A long awaited update to Microsoft Producer is here. Producer 2003 is available from: Final Release Candidate of Producer 2003 Producer is a free app that allows you to synch Powerpoint presentations with video, html, and audio. Producer also converts video to streaming video in multiple bandwidths and formats, for different audiences. Lots of little conveniences, in a piece of... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000005.html We use MS producer quite a bit for synching video to powerpoint, although since it's a free application, it isn't terribly well supported by Microsoft. It's only useful for an environment that is mostly Windows based, since presentations made with it won't play on anything but IE for Windows. There was a problem with a presentation that would play fine...