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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 25880" data-attributes="member: 34">Re: Video message repeaterWhatever you do, absolutely never, ever use Powerpoint for this! It is not at all what the program is for, and it&#039;s extremely time consuming to set the slides to a black background, set up text and images, and arrange things, when a dedicated program does all this automatically. More importantly, Powerpoint cannot be edited without taking the output offline, and any edits are even more time consuming.Powerpoint is definitely the wrong application for the job.When I do events that need a slideshow of photos, I fire up Irfanview and make a self-running .EXE file, so when I get to the gig all I have to do is connect a netbook to the projector and run the program. Nothing else to think about. Of course, this is not editable at all. Irfanview can do the slideshow natively without making an .exe if you want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 25880, member: 34"] Re: Video message repeater Whatever you do, absolutely [I]never, ever[/I] use Powerpoint for this! It is not at all what the program is for, and it's extremely time consuming to set the slides to a black background, set up text and images, and arrange things, when a dedicated program does all this automatically. More importantly, Powerpoint cannot be edited without taking the output offline, and any edits are even more time consuming. Powerpoint is definitely the wrong application for the job. When I do events that need a slideshow of photos, I fire up Irfanview and make a self-running .EXE file, so when I get to the gig all I have to do is connect a netbook to the projector and run the program. Nothing else to think about. Of course, this is not editable at all. Irfanview can do the slideshow natively without making an .exe if you want. [/QUOTE]

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