Video Presentation

Video Presentation Software

The most common and best-known example of video presentation software is Microsoft Power Point, known as Microsoft Office Power Point since 2003. Power Point works on the same principle as a slide show: A user is able to create and project a series of still images onto a screen. It has an advantage over traditional slide shows because the images don’t need to be photographs, they can be any combination of pictures and text the presenter wants. It’s useful for reducing complex elements into outlines and simplified “bullet point” explanations. Any kind of image or sound can be added, and the software carries several pre-made templates for formatting. There are few other presentation software titles, such as Apple Keynote, Corel Presentations and the defunct Adobe Persuasion, but all of them provide the same general functions and capabilities as Powerpoint.

Video Presentation Systems

The only things that a video presentation system really needs are a computer, a screen and a projector. A screen is just a matter of finding a white, unadorned vertical surface to project images on and any office professional has access to a computer. A projector, however, is a much more specialized piece of equipment, one that can often cost as much as a decent computer. Even the Epson PowerlLte S4 3LCD, one of the least expensive digital office projectors on the market, costs over six hundred and fifty dollars, while the most expensive, the Optoma XGA DDR DLP projector, costs a full two thousand dollars! However, unless you’re attempting to project an image of George Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte so accurate that you can count all the points, there’s no real reason to spend two thousand dollars on what is essentially a slide projector.

Video Conferencing Presentation

Video conferencing, is, obviously, a way for people separated by great distances to communicate “face to face,” as it were. While it can be done with nothing more than a laptop, a microphone headset and a webcam, most professional situations will use specialized videoconferencing equipment with integrated cameras, screens and audio components. Several of them are so large and extensive that they have to be integrated directly into a conference room or auditorium. It was first developed by NASA in the 1960’s for use on manned space flight missions, although the technology was much simpler. They simply kept open a UHF frequency and a VHF frequency and used one to beam TV signals up to the spaceship and the other to beam them down to Earth.