New brief great, but problems with presentation
Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 5:51PM Keynoted this morning in San Diego at Hilton: North American Electrical Distributors association. Thursday I spoke in St. Charles IL to Illinois police and firefighter pension managers group. In both instances, the brief got slower and slower the deeper I went in, meaning slower response to RFID clicker. All transparent to audience, but it unnerves me to have any uncertainty in my clicking.
Now, when I run the files on my new MacBookPro, it runs like a charm, but when I'm hooked to a monitor, it's like this build-up occurs and there' more latency with each click. In both briefs it sort of peaked on this one slide that's actually pretty tame, but I'm really confused by the issue.
How can the Mac be just fine clicking through in SlideShow without a monitor feed, and then get slower when connected?
Talked to Mac and they suggested I set up special user account, transfer the file there, and then work PPT in isolation there. Trick is, to really test it, I need to work it with a projector. Option is to buy VGA cord and do it with home theater, which is what I probably do. Other option is to kill the super-sexy and complex new transitions I use in PPT 2011.
The experiments continue. Advice welcomed.
Meanwhile, I am getting truly psyched about the new brief. Second time about 75% better than first. Starting to reach my magic zone. Just need to get my clicking confidence back.
Reader Comments (2)
It looks like you will have to tweak the brief again! The breaking news is that Osama Bin Laden is dead! President Obama is about address the nation.
Dunno . . I use my iMac3 (5gb RAM) for art and when I piggyback a 32" HD flatscreen for better detail it slows the mac down. Not a whole lot but enough to notice. My app is Adobe CS5 and the files are generally in the 6 to 20 mb size. In my case I don't know if it's the files themselves (size matters!) or the effects filters I use. They take a lot of processor to use. But powerpoint doesn't use that much RAM, so give the HD widescreen a shot . . and lemme know how it works. Maybe it's just the particular peripheral I'm working with. Same in your case.
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