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December

Real

RealAudio

Extension: RA, RAM
Mime Type audio/x-pn-realaudio

RealMedia File

Extension: RM
Mime Type:

RealPlayer as Plugin

Extension: RPM
Mime Type audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin

RealPresenter G2Beta

Synchronized PowerPoint plus video using RealVideo

These presentations have timelines with the slide timings shown. You can also jump around between different slides, either with the video still playing, or with the video synchronized to the slides.

How to use the Berkeley Media Resource Center Real/PPT Tools

1. Download Time - Visual Basic program that will start PowerPoint and capture the slide transition timing.
   FIXME: What is the redistribution policy of this software?
2. Unzip the file in d:\Program Files\BMRC
3. Go to d:\Program Files\BMRC, create a short cut for TestOpenPPTAPPProj.exe and add it to your start menu
   FIXME: we should have an installer do this for us.
4. Run TestOpenPPTAPPProj.exe and modify the 'Presentation to Open' to point to your presentation Select a 'Path to Store TimeStamp Information' and then press 'Load Presentation, Start Timestamping'
   FIXME: eventually, we would like to have a file that we could click on that would automatically load a particular ppt file and start it up in slide show mode.
5. A file with a name like Presentation-yourfile.pptMar-22-2000-10_01_49_PM.txt will be created with the timestamps in the format:

   "FirstSlideShown: img001.gif At: 22:01:49"
   "img001.gif TO: img002.gif At: 22:01:50"
   "img002.gif TO: img003.gif At: 22:01:50"
   "img003.gif TO: img004.gif At: 22:01:51"
   "img004.gif TO: img005.gif At: 22:01:51"
   "img005.gif TO: img006.gif At: 22:01:51"
   "img006.gif TO: img007.gif At: 22:01:51"
   "img007.gif TO: img008.gif At: 22:01:52"
   "img008.gif TO: img007.gif At: 22:01:53"
   "img007.gif TO: img006.gif At: 22:01:53"
   "img006.gif TO: img007.gif At: 22:01:54"
   "img007.gif TO: img008.gif At: 22:01:54"
   "img008.gif TO: img009.gif At: 22:01:54"
   "img009.gif TO: img010.gif At: 22:01:55"
   "img010.gif TO: img011.gif At: 22:01:55"
   "img011.gif TO: img012.gif At: 22:01:55"
   "ShowEnded: 22:02:01"
   

6. Convert the powerpoint talk to gifs:
   File->Save As->Select gif in the 'Save as type' entry field
   FIXME: Powerpoint 2000 saves the file with the name SlideN.gif instead of imgNNN.gif so we will need a small script to change the names
   FIXME: Ideally, we could extend TestOpenPPTAPPProj so that it will save the gifs automatically with the right names. We would also like to generate PDF at the same time if possible. The idea is that we would have a common set of settings that would be used for each talk.

Placing files on the bmrc website

1. Get an account in the BMRC Unix domain
2. The directory we are using is at \\media2\web\projects\gsrc. This should appear as http://media2.bmrc.berkeley.edu/projects/gsrc Mount the media2 files with Start->Run> \\media2.bmrc.berkeley.edu
   If prompted for a password, type bmrc\yourlogin

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