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Acura Show and Versatubes

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.
Acura NY Auto Show staging
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.
Close up of the Versatubes

By |2016-09-16T11:43:30-07:00April 16th, 2006|Personal, Portfolio|

Computer Cables Gone Wild

I am spending the week at the New York Auto Show working on press event presentations for both Honda and Acura. Tons of very cool presentation technology in action, but it just dawned on me how big of a mess I’ve created over the past two days.

Here is what happens when you have no room to work and you setup eight computers, power for stage lighting, controls for car turntables and I’m not sure what else is down there at this point…
Cables for my 8 computers and the other stuff...

Of course it could always be worse. Here is the just one of the video production area cabling!
Cables for just one section of "video village"

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:42:23-07:00April 12th, 2006|Personal, PowerPoint|

How many people are suppose to be at this meeting…

Okay, for most this will not apply. But I am in meetings at convention centers and resorts every week. It is always a bad day when someone miscalculated and to many people are squished into to small of meeting room. Here is an interesting online calculator that estimates how big a room should be reserved based on the seating type, and type of table used, and number of people attending. Check it out here.

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:40:50-07:00April 10th, 2006|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Is it a Good Seat? Find Out on SeatGuru.com

I travel to a different show virtually every week, so I am constantly on airplanes (this week L.A., next week New York for the NY Auto Show). Of course with a cross country flight I want to make sure I have a good seat, preferably with a power port.
Seat Guru .com
You may have noticed that some seats seem better than others – I have. After booking my flight, my first stop is SeatGuru.com. With your airline and flight info, look up the seating chart for that airplane, make sure you do not have a ‘yellow’ seat, check if it has a powerport and make sure you have the best seat in your category!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:40:02-07:00April 8th, 2006|Personal, Resource/Misc|

You Have Got To Have More Than PowerPoint Skills

This is a continuation to the last post (…starting with PowerPoint and converting it to something else). Because all of the projects begin with PowerPoint, clients are counting on TLC Creative Services to develop a professional and dynamic presentation – that’s where the years of graphic design and PowerPoint expertise come in. But that is not enough. Now to develop the “something else” a design firm needs to have expertise in things like:
– CD mastering, for duplication.
– Autorun User Interface program development, for interactive CDROMs where a custom application gives users the option to view, install or edit presentations.
– DVD menu development, for interactive DVD menu’s and special options such as looping movies and custom playback hierarchies.
– Professional DVD mastering, so they actually work on consumer players.
– Web development, for converting presentations to webcasts.
– Web hosting, for presentations converted to webcasts.

And this is just a sampling of things that go on behind the scenes. As I mentioned last time, “I really enjoy the projects that are continuously flowing in. One reason is the variety; different clients, different visual needs, different requests.”

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:33:34-07:00March 23rd, 2006|Personal, PowerPoint|

(Now) PowerPoint is Just the Beginning

I really enjoy the projects that are continuously flowing in. One reason is the variety; different clients, different visual needs, different requests. But as I look back over just the past 6 months or so, the big difference has been the variety of output needs. All of the projects revolve around PowerPoint, but PowerPoint is just the stage for creating the final product. I have some thoughts on that, but I will save those for later.

As information to think on, here are five of the projects that I have had within the past few months that all start with PowerPoint, but end up as something else:
1. Convert a PowerPoint presentation and provided video clips into a technical training DVD. Playback on consumer DVD, distributed around the world to train employees of a major Cruise line about the new safety doors and gangways being installed. The PowerPoint slides provided the technical content. Video clips demonstrated each step of the process.

2. Sync PowerPoint presentation with live video taping of presenter and convert to an online webcast.

3. Convert a PowerPoint presentation into a kiosk mode display for a tradeshow booth.

4. Convert a themed countdown timer presentation to a movie format for playback from a beta tape.

5. Create a themed announcement presentation (company logo, press event time, company slogan, press event time, etc.) into a looping DVD. Only the DVD was left running in between events.

Of course over the same months we have had plenty of the traditional speaker support presentations, templates, custom animation and clean-up projects too. But the world is changing and from my perspective the way PowerPoint is being used is evolving too!

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:33:15-07:00March 21st, 2006|Personal, PowerPoint|

Another look at “My Office”

A few weeks back I showed a fun interactive graphic of “my office.” Well I received a few emails asking what the stage looked like that all of the computers were used for. So, the page has been updated with a bit larger images and a photo of the staging – hope it all makes more sense now! See it here.

Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T11:32:17-07:00March 19th, 2006|Personal, Resource/Misc|
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