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  • Page 1 User Guide...
  • Page 2 Copyright Notice: The Ovation software and documentation are © Copyright 2005 Serious Magic, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This manual may not, in whole or in any part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable format without prior written consent from Serious Magic, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Special Purpose Slides ................14 Adding Your Own Graphics to the Look........... 15 The Fundamentals Launching Ovation and Loading a Presentation ........18 Selecting a PowerLook for Your Presentation........... 19 Setting the Default Look................20 Adding a Look to Favorites ................20 Getting More PowerLooks ................
  • Page 4 Saving ..................... 24 Exporting for Sharing ................25 More Help Online Orientation to Ovation’s Interface ............. 27 Designing in PowerPoint for the Best Results in Ovation ......27 Advanced Features and Options.............. 27 Setting Up..................... 27 Presenting..................... 28 Appendix: Dual Display Setup Connecting the Second Display...............

  • Page 5: Foreword

    Foreword A Brief History of Presentations Step back in time more than 40,000 years to the banks of a stream in what is now southeastern France. The leader of a tribe of cave dwellers is addressing the chiefs of four neighboring tribes that have been battling each other for generations.
  • Page 6 It also provides tools that help you deliver that presentation more effectively. If you take full advantage of Ovation’s presenter tools, they will help ensure that you confidently hit all the points you wanted to cover.
  • Page 7 In the end, all that really matters is what Ovation does for you. Our hope is that it makes you more successful by helping you deliver your messages more effectively. After all, more than 30 million presentations are delivered every business day.

  • Page 9: Introduction

    Its presentation tools help you stay on time and on point. To aid in keeping on schedule, Ovation has not only a timer that can count up or down but also a TimeKeeper, which shows at a glance whether you’re running too slow, too fast, or just right. To ensure that you cover all your material, the PointPrompter displays your notes for each slide in large, easy-to-read text.

  • Page 11: Getting Started

    Getting Started Installing Insert the Ovation Installation disc into your PC’s CD drive and wait for the installer to launch. If the installer does not launch automatically, use Windows Explorer to view the contents of the CD and double-click the Setup.exe file. Follow the instructions in the wizard.

  • Page 12: Quick Start

    2. Choose a look for the show. 3. Deliver the presentation. Of course, Ovation has a host of features and options for improving both the look of your presentations and your delivery of them, but everything beyond these three basic steps is entirely optional.

  • Page 13: Delivering A Show

    To begin presenting, click the Start button. If your computer is running with only one screen, then your slides will be shown full screen, hiding the Ovation interface. To switch back to the Ovation window, press the Escape key. To learn about operating in dual-screen mode, please consult Dual Display Setup on page 29.

  • Page 15: Feature Overview

    • Select one from the library on the Choose Look tab. The left-hand pane allows you to filter which looks are shown in the library. • Pick an Ovation PowerLook as the template when you’re creating the show in PowerPoint. To learn more about working with Ovation looks in PowerPoint, please consult Selecting a PowerLook on page 19.

  • Page 16: Deeper

    The TimeKeeper ™ Ovation has the almost magical ability to eliminate one major source of presentation- induced stress: the worry that you’re running dreadfully behind schedule or perhaps racing through your material far too fast. The TimeKeeper shows you at a glance how close you are to your desired pace.

  • Page 17: Pointprompter

    Ovation will calculate times for slides that you haven’t set times for. When you import a show for the first time, Ovation will apply any slide times that you set in PowerPoint. It can also learn slide timings as you rehearse the presentation or deliver it for real.

  • Page 18: Special Purpose Slides

    Each PowerLook has variations on its theme to give these bonus slides a unique look. Adding these slides through Ovation has the advantage that they’re not in the slideshow on the PowerPoint side when you go to print handouts.

  • Page 19: Adding Your Own Graphics To The Look

    Not a problem. On the Customize Look control panel under the Options Tab, you can add your own graphics. Ovation will fold them seamlessly into the PowerLook. You control the transparency to get just the right effect.

  • Page 21: The Fundamentals

    This section covers the essential steps necessary to give a PowerPoint slideshow an Ovation makeover and then to present that show through Ovation. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3: 1. Launch Ovation and load a PowerPoint presentation. (Yes, these are two steps, but Ovation gives you a couple of ways to accomplish both with a single action.)

  • Page 22: Launching Ovation And Loading A Presentation

    Launching Ovation and Loading a Presentation You can launch Ovation and load a PowerPoint show in any of the following four ways (the first three accomplish both steps with one action): • Drag and drop a PowerPoint file (.ppt) onto the Ovation icon on your desktop.

  • Page 23: Selecting A Powerlook For Your Presentation

    Selecting a PowerLook for Your Presentation Ovation comes with a large library of PowerLooks. The built-in categories make it easy to find one that gives your show a suitable look. You can also assemble a custom list of your favorites. To find and apply a look: 1.

  • Page 24: Setting The Default Look

    To find Ovation’s templates in PowerPoint, select Design Templates on the Slide Design page and click Browse at the bottom of the pane, then open the Ovation folder in the Apply Design Template dialog. (If the Design Templates pane isn’t open, click the Slide Design button on the Formatting toolbar.) Once you’ve applied any look from this folder,...

  • Page 25: Presenting

    Escape key. Regardless of whether you have one or two displays, you can keep Ovation from showing the full screen output when you start presenting by disabling the Show Full Screen while Presenting option on the Hardware Setup tab of the Application Settings dialog.

  • Page 26: Auto-Advancing Based On Slide Times-The Kiosk Mode

    To run a presentation in this way, which is known as the “kiosk mode,” select Auto- Advance in the Presenter Menu. Ovation will enter the presenting mode just as if you had clicked Start, the only difference being that slides will advance automatically.

  • Page 27: Navigating

    Navigating Ovation allows the following navigational steps. Note that if you’re running the presentation with a single monitor in the full-screen mode, then you’ll naturally have to use the keyboard shortcuts since the Ovation interface will not be visible. Action...

  • Page 28: Playing Video And Audio Clips

    CTRL+Up Arrow or CTRL+Down Arrow. If a clip was set to loop in PowerPoint, then it will loop in Ovation until you take an action to stop it.

  • Page 29: Exporting For Sharing

    • Launch Ovation and browse to the exported presentation file. If revisions to the file cannot be saved, then Ovation will prompt you to set a path where it can save changes. If you opt not to set a new path, then any changes you make to the presentation within Ovation will not be saved.

  • Page 31: More Help Online

    • Slide Design: Templates, Layout, and Font Treatment • Slide Content • Animation and Slide Transitions • Revising Slides in PowerPoint and Updating Shows in Ovation • Conditions that Cause a Slide to Revert to the PowerPoint Layout • File Management...

  • Page 32: Presenting

    • Assigning Deeper Content • Setting Time per Slide and Target Show Duration • Preparing the PointPrompter Presenting • Scrolling the Note Card, Rolling the Teleprompter • Going Deeper • Printing a Presentation...

  • Page 33: Appendix: Dual Display Setup

    Appendix: Dual Display Setup To get the most out of Ovation, you’ll want to operate with two displays — your screen with the Ovation interface displayed for just you to see, the other display showing the full screen output for your audience to view. That way you’ll have all the advantages of the Presenter Panel to aid you.

  • Page 34: Display Settings

    Windows desktop onto this Monitor option. Do a test run with a show in Ovation to make sure the program’s interface and the full- screen output are on the appropriate displays. If anything’s awry, then return to the Settings Tab of the Display Properties dialog, click the Advanced button, and return all driver settings to the defaults.

  • Page 35: Setting The Full Screen Output And Ovations Interface To Appear On Monitor 1 Or Monitor 2

    Setting the Full Screen Output and Ovations Interface to Appear on Monitor 1 or Monitor 2 When you’re operating with two monitors (or a monitor and a projector), Ovation’s interface is on Monitor 1 by default while the presentation appears full-screen on Monitor 2. You can switch these assignments independently on General tab of the Application Settings dialog.

  • Page 36: Index

    Intermission slide....... Add Deeper ........Introduction slide....... Advance ..........Auto-Advancing......... Kiosk Mode ........Back ..........Black slide ......... Launching Ovation ......Loading a PowerPoint Presentation.. Connecting the Second Display..Navigating ......... Next ........... Deeper..........Default PowerLook......Design Templates ......Ovation template .......
  • Page 37 Saving..........Screen Refresh Rate for Full Screen Display....... Scrolling the Note Card ..... Selecting a PowerLook ....8, 19 Sharing for Presenting on another Computer ....Slide Navigation Bar......Special Purpose Slides ..... Starting the Presentation....Start Presenting upon Loading Show Stopping a Presentation....
  • Page 38 The Ultimate Video Toolkit ULTRA 2 ® ULTRA 2 transforms DV, HDV and HD keying into a practical daily production tool for all types of video professionals. Its drag-and-drop simplicity allows video editors to create highly realistic background composites that are convincing in every detail, even from marginal video sources. Additionally, ULTRA 2 puts high-end virtual sets within reach.
  • Page 39 Video Presentations in Half the Time Serious Magic’s award-winning Visual Communicator Visual Communicator includes everything you’d software makes it easy to create professional-look- expect from expensive broadcast tools, including ing video presentations for education and corporate effortless real-time chroma key, virtual sets with videos.

  • Page 40: Keyboard Shortcuts

    Keyboard Shortcuts File / Presentation Commands • Open: CTRL+O • Update from PowerPoint: CTRL+U • Exit: CTRL+Q View • Output on Full Screen: ESC Presenter/Navigation • Start from beginning: F5 • Start from Current Slide: F6 • Stop: F7 • Next: Space, N, Enter, Page Down, Right Arrow, Down Arrow •...

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