Tools

Powerpoints, videos you make or edit, other multimedia are fine. This page is just some options I'm looking at for future projects.

A. Non-Powerpoint, web-based presentation tools (photos, text, video, sound):
1. It took me less than ten minutes to figure out the basics of [|VMIX]. Here's what I came up with (I know the music is cheesy; I was just playing around): media type="custom" key="77246" VMIX won't allow you to publish copyrighted music or video in your presentation. But what it DOES allow--and it's the first web-based, free tool I've found to do this--is for you to upload mp3's from your computer to your slideshow movie. This means you could edit your slideshow, then record a voice mp3 narrating your script, rather than using text titles. It's an interesting option.

2. [|Scrapblog]: There's a great set of YouTube tutorials for Scrapblog [|here]. It's incredibly powerful--better, I think, than VMIX. But it does NOT allow users to upload their own music or mp3 files (which would be handy for voice narration).

B. Web-based tools that convert Powerpoint to Flash (which means you can upload your Powerpoints, convert them, then embed theem, rather than linking them):
[|SplashCast]: I just found this. You can upload PowerPoints, include YouTube videos, AND ADD VOICE NARRATION and MUSIC to your slideshow on the site. Then you can publish it AS FLASH and embed it on a wiki or blog. Here's a tutorial: media type="custom" key="77321" [|authorSTREAM]: I like it, as far as I can like anything as boring as Powerpoint usually is.

C. Other Tools: Great Resource:
See a full list of these sorts of tools [|here]. I'm tired of doing all the work. :)