The Future of Online Presentations – Mixing Video and Slides
September 2nd, 2009 by Eddie Sullivan
I am excited to announce Chicken Wing Software's online multimedia presentation system. The pilot presentation, created by Christine Perfetti of Perfetti Media, is online now. Facilitating a Usability Test is the first in what will be a series of presentations on usability testing techniques gleaned from her ten-plus years of experience in the field.
The system combines video with PowerPoint slides and text, all tied together with Dynamic HTML and JavaScript for a fully interactive experience. You can click on a slide thumbnail to advance the video to that spot in the presentation, and the displayed slide stays in synch with the video.
Even now, with only the first presentation, the system's potential is inspiring, and we are brimming with ideas for new features to add!
If you would be interested in using this technology for your own presentations, please contact us.
Really liked this software - it's nice to see the person behind the presentation, and being able to navigate to chapters in the video is great
This solves a big problem that I have with video - personally I hate video to learn from, but only because you can't skim through before you decide to devote some time to concentrating on it :)
Your software solves this problem - great!
Just one thing that occured to me - I had to scroll down to see the space reserved for the person speaking, I would prefer something a bit more like powerpoint, and have a column on the right hand side, with the video headshot at the top and the navigation in the column below.
This is a great way to enhance the person speaking's credibility, and I think they should get "joint billing" with the slide :) it cuts down on the eye tracking required and makes it more personal too.
Excellent product, I think it's great. Good luck with adding in the future ideas - will stop by again and see how you're coming along.
Thanks for the compliments and the feedback! It's great to hear that the software is meeting some needs.
That's an interesting point about the placement of the video and the slides. We are experimenting with some ideas for the placement and relative sizes. The two-column idea sounds like one that could work well. One way you can avoid having to scroll down in the current interface is to decrease the size of the slides using the buttons in the top right of the page.
-Eddie