I recently received a great email from Microsoft – recognition as a PowerPoint MVP for another year! There are currently 28 PowerPoint MVPs globally and it is a great gathering of backgrounds and talent, one I am honored to be a part of.
– Troy @TLC
From the middle of August through the middle of the upcoming November we have been in continuous motion. Lots of great projects, super clients and variety. Here are a few photos of a recent “Advanced PowerPoint Training Day.” Lori and I met with a core team of presentation developers at their corporate office for an entire day of indepth how-to’s and design ideas geared to expanding their corporate presentations.
– Troy @ TLC
The PPTLive conference wrapped up and was a great event! One of the personal highlights is having the opportunity for so many of the PowerPoint MVP’s to be together and have some fun!
Another highlight was presenting the Day 2 General Session on Animation with my wife and business partner, Lori!
Stay tuned for some posts on things learned, recaps of sessions I spoke at, etc.
-Troy @ TLC
Okay, so my earlier post seemed great. But of course they are not in full production yet. But today you can order the biggest USB drive available – 64 GB!!!
That is bigger than most laptop harddrive’s! Over 2X’s larger than my first computers hard drive and over 8X’s larger than my first laptops hard drive. And it can be yours for just over $2,500.00 (U.S.). Check it out here.
Troy @ TLC
Yesterday I read a post at GeekZone about an incredibly large in capacity, but small in size USB “thumb” drive. This is not a “pocket” drive, but a standard sized USB stick. And it is 16 Gigabytes!
I figure this is perfect when a client needs to hand me their 1.2GB PowerPoint presentation (true story) and the 4GB of support photos (now you see why the presentation was over a Gig). Check out the post here.
– Troy @ TLC
Just ran across this link in some old notes. I found this little movie over a year ago – made me laugh then and it makes me laugh now! Check out the “Low Moral Presentation” here.
-Troy @ TLC
Presenter’s University asked if TLC Creative Services would contribute some PowerPoint templates to their resource library. I was very excited to find out the templates and adjoining tutorial were highlighted in their August newsletter that just went out.
There are now two full function PowerPoint templates available for anyone. Because one of the templates I developed included an additional master slide I also developed a tutorial on accessing and using additional master slides in a presentation.
Click here to download templates from Presenter’s University (may need to go through free registration process).
Click here to see the tutorial on accessing and using additional Master Slides.
– Troy @ TLC
My work environment when I interact with people face-to-face is generally in ballrooms and convention centers across the country. I hear and get the “I’d like to do what you do” question fairly common. I recently responded to someone, who was very serious about a change of direction in their design work, which I will share with all:
“Dear XXXX,
Over the past few years I have seen a surprising need for qualified people to work showsite presentations. But for straight design work I believe there is a very competitive market. For me the two have become inseparable. I do lots of creative design work for live events, both in pre-production from my office and while on showsite.
For showsite presentations the graphics person needs to be very knowledgeable about design principles – PowerPoint – computer/hardware issues – A/V equipment (projectors, scalers, switchers, etc.) and of course people skills. I would recommend:
○ Spending lots of time on the PowerPoint newsgroup just reading the questions and answers. Knowing the solutions to the various common problems is mandatory. https://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?NewsGroup=microsoft.public.powerpoint&SLCID=US&ICP=GSS3&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups
○ Get familiar with the PPT FAQ that Steve Rindsberg maintains(you will see plenty of newsgroup replies are just links to pages on this site) https://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq
○ Beyond skills and knowledge it is a matter of getting your name in with production companies. The industry is relatively small, so working with one means referrals to others.
Lest you think it all exciting, the hours are anywhere between midnight-and-midnight. Airplanes – hotels – banquet food – and lots of travel are a daily part of things too…”
Troy @ TLC
I prepare lots of presentations for company executives, for lots of big events. The presentations are like mini-Hollywood productions: animations, photography, precise timing to coordinate with the speakers script, wide-screens, multiple screens (up to 160′ of screen!), etc.
But take a journey back in time and it is almost amazing to me what was high-tech and “unbelievable.” Click here to view Steve Jobs original keynote speach unvieling the Macintosh computer.
Note: the computer display during the presentation is not connected to anything but shot with a camera that is projected.
– Troy @ TLC
Just wrapped up work at the New York Auto Show (weather was perfect!). Here is the staging for the Acura meeting. The large screen in the center is a traditional (high-definition) rear-projection screen. All of the bars on the sides are called Versatubes.
1 computer for center screen graphics. 1 computer for LED Versatubes on the immediate left/right of center screen. 1 computer for LED Versatubes on the left/right sidewalls. The versatubes are literally a grid of “light bars” that interpret the video signal and display the PowerPoint slide across them. Think of pointillism(eg. seraut)when looked at up close is just a bunch of dots, but from a distance it is a picture; same idea with versatubes.
