Subj : Power Point
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Scaglione
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 02:25 am

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 23:41:38 -0400, "August Abolins -> Charles
Scaglione" <1:229/2000> wrote:

 AA> PP came up in conversation tonight with a pastor-friend. What exactly is
 AA> involved to get a PP slide show from a laptop onto a big screen?  Is the 
the
 AA> output at the external video connector? ...or is it via USB? ...something
 AA> else?   He would be using OpenOffice, btw  ...and probably needing a way 
to
 AA> control the show via "remote".  Is there a special cordless device for 
that?

The output is taken from the video output (external monitor connector)
from the laptop via a digital quality cable to the video input of the
projector.

The projector becomes an external monitor for all practical purposes.
The whole process is really very easy to setup and display.  Of course
for a large audience (church sanctuary) a projector with enough lumen
output is required so the display will be bright enough to fill a
large screen and be viewable from the last row.

Most modern projectors come with a remote that can be used to control
the show, change parameters, setup, and so forth.  We keep a person in
our sound booth at the computer terminal to control the Powerpoint
presentation.   I'm not familiar with the presentation software that
comes with Open Office but my understanding is that it's file
compatible with Powerpoint.

Regards.

chscag at gmail dot com

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