Apple recently demonstrated a new version of Keynote software as part of the iWorks ‘09 office productivity suite. Among other enhancements, Keynote ‘09 includes an array of new animations and transitions effects that you can add between slides.
Now Keynote ‘09 is available for Mac only but if you are on Windows or use another program like Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations, SlideRocket is coming up with something that may interest you.
SlideRocket has taken some of the new transition effects that were introduced in Keynote ‘09 and added them to their own web presentation software. That means you can upload your existing PowerPoint slides on to SlideRocket and apply transitions that were otherwise only available in Keynote.
You can view the new Keynote transitions in SlideRocket through the above presentation but these are probably not live for everyone yet. This demo will give you some more idea about the capabilities and features of SlideRocket.
SlideRocket founder Mitch Grasso says that this is "one of the unsung advantages of web applications – we can iterate new versions easily and quickly."
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/add-keynote-transitions-to-powerpoint-presentations/6417/
Tags: feature, keynote, powerpoint, presentations, Software
Reader Comments
I agree that the article is for advanced users who require presentations. But it has helped me discover sliderocket which I can fiddle around…
Written by NE on 01.08.09
Okay, I’m going to sound like a kill-joy, but….. :)
A friend of mine once suggested that you could give people a really sharp scalple and call it a do-it-yourself brain surgery kit but that didn’t make it a good idea.
Given that most PowerPoints are bad because people spend a lot of time fiddling and not enough time designing, do we really want to give them another toy to play with? Clever it is, certainly, don’t get me wrong – I’m just scared of seeing how much time this will waste for people who don’t know any better! :)
Simon
Written by Simon on 01.08.09
I’ve used SlideRocket, very awesome and polished. It’s what PowerPoint should have been.
Written by anonymous on 01.09.09