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Hey, and welcome back. Today we’re gonna’ talk a little about publishing your presentation,
and we’ll talk about a very exciting feature in Media Connexus Impression Studio. The eTakeaway.
The eTakeaway, or electronic takeaway, is a sea-change in audience participation. With
it, your audience is able to follow along with your presentation on their own PC’s,
take notes on each of your scenes, and then review your presentation at their leisure
when you’re long gone. All without printing a single piece of paper.
Let me show you. The eTakeaway begins in the publishing screen.
I’ve got a completed presentation, all my scenes are set and the actors are in their
places. It’s time to publish. The publishing screen gives you a nice big
screen to watch your presentation on. You can use the controls at the bottom...
... to play your presentation back and make sure it’s ready to go.
I’ve already reviewed my presentation and I’m ready to publish.
Up here in the Properties bar I have three different options to publish my presentation
to. You can publish to an Impression Viewer file
and anyone who has our software installed can play back your presentation on their own
PC’s. You’d also want this option when you’re going to be giving your presentation
yourself.
You can publish to an executable file which contains the player already in it, so if you
want someone to see your presentation and they don’t have our software installed,
you’d want this option.
The last option is to publish to an Adobe Flash movie file which can be played by anyone
with the free Adobe player, or if you want to upload your presentation to the internet.
For our purposes today, I’m going to publish my presentation to the viewer.
I can call it whatever I want. Okay, next I want to publish an eTakeaway
file. So, click on the Preview and Publish Electronic Take Away.
This screen gives me a preview of how the eTakeaway will look to the audience member.
The options at the top let me pick whether or not I want to include a section for them
to take notes, and if so, where those notes will be: top, bottom, right or left. Let’s
just pick bottom for now. This section below our stage is the section
for notes.
Okay, that’s all the decisions I need to make. Go ahead and click on “Publish Electronic
Take Away”. Name it whatever I want.
Okay, I’m going to close out of Impression Studio and launch my presentation.
Now, a little pop-up here tells me that some things will have to be changed in my Windows
firewall settings in order to have my audience follow along with my presentation. These changes
will only apply to this presentation and will only last as long as the presentation is open.
So, we’ll just select “Yes.” You can click on “No” and still give your
presentation, but the eTakeaway won’t work. And trust me, once you see it in action, you’ll
want it to work.
Okay, so here’s the first scene of my presentation, ready to go.
I’m going to split the screen now so you can see what happens on your audience member’s
screen. Over on the right is a completely different
computer on my network. However you want to do it, let your audience
members know where they can go to download your eTakeaway file. Maybe it’s in a secure
folder on your computer. Once they’ve got it, they simply open it up.
They get the same warning about firewalls and access. If they don’t click “Yes”
the file just opens to the first scene of your presentation. They’ll still have the
file, but they’ll only be able to see the first scene. Unless they run the eTakeaway
file, and keep it open for the entire presentation, they won’t get the entire presentation.
(That’ll keep ‘em in their seats!) Okay, so here we are. On the left is my presentation,
on the right is what the audience member sees. Note the area for taking notes.
Your audience member can click inside this box and just begin typing.
Now, watch this! As I go through my presentation... ... the audience member’s screen updates
to whatever is on my screen. They could take notes on every scene and those
notes will be saved in the eTakeaway file. If I’m going too fast for them, they can
use the controls at the bottom to go back to previous scenes.
When I continue on, they can press this button here...
... and the eTakeaway file will catch up to where I am . While the eTakeAway is paused,
it’s still recording scene changes the presenter is making.
Okay, my presentation is over, I’ve answered questions, and have been generally awesome.
The audience members go back to their people and want to show what an incredible presentation
it was. They just re-launch the eTakeway and give
the presentation themselves. Their notes are right there, my presentation is laid out exactly
as I gave it. Pretty cool, right? When you use the eTakeaway
tool, you engage your audience, give them a useful tool to better remember your presentation,
save not an inconsequential number of trees, and enlist legions of people to tell your
story.