At the WA State Arts Commission we utilized video editing software and 
 burned DVD's for presentation. If you have stills add them into the 
 stream of the video and utilize subtitle capabilities to get an effect 
 similar to Power Point slides. The finished product plays anywhere a 
 regular DVD would play.

 Some of the systems we used were:

 Final Cut Pro (expensive but worth it) I suggest if you are new to the 
 program I highly suggest purchasing a keyboard cover specific to the 
 Final Cut Pro version you are using  they are printed with "hot keys" 
 for the program.

 imovie (not all the bells and whistles of meatier programs but it is 
 highly accessible.

 If you end up with a video software program that does not allow you to 
 add subtitles consider altering the image to add text in a photo 
 software application such as Photoshop. this is not the optimal solution 
 but it is a work around if you are on a tight budget.

 ---
 Suzanne Reed
  Precious Cargo Manager
  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
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 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art -Currently on view: _Tough by Nature:
 Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West_, _Russel
 Wong: The Big Picture_, _Provenance: In Honor of Arlene Schnitzer_,
 _Art of the Athlete_, _Painted Play: Rinpa and Ukiyo-e Scrolls from
 the Simmons Collection, _plus collections galleries devoted to art
 from China, Japan, Korea, the Americas, Russian icons and elsewhere.

 On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:08:49 +0000, Sharron Conrad wrote:
> Our museum has a rich film and videotaped oral history collection and
> we are using video files in our public programs more and more
> frequently. We have found that, while PowerPoint is effective for
> showing photographs and small video files in a seamless way, we lose
> significant film quality by converting videos to a format that
> PowerPoint accepts. In addition, PowerPoint can become unstable when
> longer video files are embedded, causing the entire slideshow to hang
> up.
>
> Are you familiar with another presentation software that handles 
> video
> files well? Or, have you come up with other solutions for managing
> multi-media presentations in ways that are seamless to audiences?
>
> Thanks for any advice you might be willing to share…we've got
> wonderful material and we want it to shine!
>
> Sharron
>
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