This week I'll be presenting at a magician's-only conference in Las Vegas. I'll be discussing how home automation techniques can be applied to conjuring and the creation of performance spaces.
This will be the first home automation presentation I've given at a non-technical conference, and the first time I'll be presenting without a laptop and Keynote. Instead, the slides for my session will be projected using my iPhone, thanks to the Apple Composite AV cable. I used the excellent templates from KeynotePro to create the presentation, which worked quite well for me, and I was impressed with the quality and variety of their templates. The Keynote presentation is exported to PNG files, which are then shown onscreen from a photo album.
Gordon, how did this work for you? Would you change anything? I'm giving a keynote next week but want to continue with my "no laptop" travel that I've done since converting to an iPhone.
Posted by: Scott James | October 13, 2009 at 08:36 PM
Giving the presentation from the iPhone worked well for me, but here's what I learned:
- It was a little awkward to advance the slides because the phone, due to cable length, is near the projector. This meant I had to constantly walk over and flick to the next slide.
- I made the mistake of using the widescreen slide template. The projector, since you're connected using composite video, will only do standard TV projections. So be sure to format for this and you'll be fine.
Posted by: Gordon Meyer | October 18, 2009 at 12:01 PM