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2012 Microsoft MVP Summit

Flying in from Italy to Seattle is a definite time zone change. But being with the other PowerPoint MVPs affords little time for sleep! Microsoft hosted their MVP Summit at the end of February and it was a great event!

There are over 2,500 MVPs worldwide and approximately 1,500 converged onto Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus. There are just under 30 PowerPoint MVPs worldwide and 12 of us were at the summit. I spent the week in sessions with the PowerPoint development team where we previewed new features, talked about upcoming releases and were able to point out the needs of real people (not that the Microsoft developers are not real – they are very real, but do live in a bubble of statistics and theoretical concepts). And of course, each evening was a great time too!

Everything covered is under NDA, which means I am excited to share lots of great things the moment it is made public!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:31:20-07:00March 14th, 2012|Personal|

Where Have You Been…

There has been a lack of activity here at ThePowerPointBlog, but I assure you it is not because I have been inactive! In the past 6 weeks, I have been in 7 cities, 4 states and 3 countries – every one PPT related.

Palos Verdes, CA
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Miami, FL
Rome, Italy
St. Julians, Malta
Seattle, WA
Los Angeles, CA

The schedule is still blessed to be busy and the whole design office is working on projects, and the blog posts are set for the month!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:31:59-07:00March 12th, 2012|Personal|

Big and (Mega) HD

This meeting was really great from a presentation standpoint: 84′ wide screen (3 project blend = 5700px wide x 1080px tall) with a 30″ x 7″ PPT. Then 16×9 PIPs for the presenter presentations (each a 1080p HD projection field). This is the general session look. For the awards, I was able to design the presentation to use the entire (Mega) wide screen (no PIPs).

(Yes, that is me)

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:32:19-07:00February 27th, 2012|Personal, Portfolio|

3 Blend Projection

Here is an awards show from a recent meeting. The screen was over 80′ wide and was run from a single PPT computer (with a backup computer inline as well).

To do this and keep really high quality display, the screen uses three slightly overlapped projectors – 3 blend projection. There is a lot of specialty equipment between the PPT computer and the projector. But getting there creates a smooth, single image. If you look at this image, you can see the three projector fields (this is before the projectionist adjusted the levels to make all uniform).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:32:52-07:00February 17th, 2012|Personal|

Showsite “Office”

Backstage in Palos Verdes, CA (the Terranea Resort is a great property). Note the small 7″ USB monitor in the center of my show computers (not the 14″ version in the previous post).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:33:16-07:00February 13th, 2012|Personal|

Showsite/Travel Monitor

I work in a lot of locations that are not my office – where I have dual 23″ monitors, my favorite keyboard, mouse, track pad and really great speakers. What do I miss the most when I setup a temporary work station at a show? The extra monitor.

On the second monitor, for PPT, I run the slide show and edit the slides on primary monitor or if editing a highly animated section, I have a very large animation pane on it. I also use it for email, Windows Explorer windows and Lync.

For a few years, I have traveled with a small 7″ USB monitor, which was nice, but not really fully functional. Enter my newest “toy” – the Toshiba PA3923U-2LC3, a 14″ USB monitor that is automatically recognized by Windows 7 and Mac OS Lion. And it’s more portable than the smaller monitor by folding into a thin portfolio case.

Here is my production computer at my temporary, backstage “office” on showsite this week in Puerto Rico.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:33:43-07:00February 11th, 2012|Personal|

Presenting the New “TLC Creative Services, Inc.” Logo

As part of the new design offices and needing new business cards, signage and everything else, Lori took on the task of updating our company logo – which was last revised in 2006.

All the same information, just some updated styling on the “TLC ” spheres (now vector art) and a more streamlined and modern linear feel to the text.

Look for it on the blog, website and where ever else the TLC logo appears.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:35:20-07:00February 2nd, 2012|Personal, Portfolio|

Lots of Fun with Big Staging and Big Presentations!

I wrapped up 2011 with this show in Las Vegas. The staging was fantastic – with 3 large presentation screens and lots of stage lighting (fantastic LD on this event)!

My world consisted of a month of presentation design and one very long and very full table of computers to run everything onsite.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:38:40-07:00January 12th, 2012|Personal, Portfolio|

Showsite and a Trip Back to My Youth

Just wrapped up a show at the La Costa Resort in San Diego. Great event, super crew and good client. All of the presentations ran smoothly and it was fun as I spent much of my youth growing up right there in La Costa.