Hello Willem - currently, Presenter only supports the default (4:3) slide size. (See this article for more info.) But feature requests are always welcome!
Willem - if you're working with screencasts, you could record at 980x560 and drop those in using slide only view to fill up the entire player. I'm sure that's not what you're trying to do, but it is a solution for hosting videos in Presenter '09.
As a related note, you could change the PPT page size when you're using Presenter to just create a single SWF that you'll use in a bigger course. Kinda of poor man's Flash. You'd do this when you want the SWF to be within a certain size.
Thanks, that´s helpful, but what I mean more that powerpoint has the possibility of different formats. It should be nice to adapt presenter too! Think on presentations on wide screen monitors etc.
This is not a standard answer to your question, but the best way I could think of is to work on a 4:3 powerpoint. Set the background as black, and insert a frame of 16X9 ratio in your Master slide. You you may work within this frame.
When publishing, you may set the background color of the presenter file to black so that the ratio looks like 16:9.
Here is a preview -
A little more idea - You will notice that there is a little extra black space at the bottom part. To make the course look more like a film, you may add here the audio script of the course, to make it look like sub titles.
I have attached the Power Point slide I created. Do use if it is helpful.
Thank you very much it´s helpful. Although my problem is; I did develop a lot of course in that 16X9 format. That means I have to change them if I want to use the full with!
Ah! I see.... Do your courses have a lot of animations? For the static ones, you can just take a screenshot of the slide and put it in the 4:3 PPT... and add a black background. Should be fine.
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Hello Willem - currently, Presenter only supports the default (4:3) slide size. (See this article for more info.) But feature requests are always welcome!
Willem - if you're working with screencasts, you could record at 980x560 and drop those in using slide only view to fill up the entire player. I'm sure that's not what you're trying to do, but it is a solution for hosting videos in Presenter '09.
As a related note, you could change the PPT page size when you're using Presenter to just create a single SWF that you'll use in a bigger course. Kinda of poor man's Flash. You'd do this when you want the SWF to be within a certain size.
Thanks, that´s helpful, but what I mean more that powerpoint has the possibility of different formats. It should be nice to adapt presenter too! Think on presentations on wide screen monitors etc.
Hi Willem,
This is not a standard answer to your question, but the best way I could think of is to work on a 4:3 powerpoint. Set the background as black, and insert a frame of 16X9 ratio in your Master slide. You you may work within this frame.
When publishing, you may set the background color of the presenter file to black so that the ratio looks like 16:9.
Here is a preview -
A little more idea - You will notice that there is a little extra black space at the bottom part. To make the course look more like a film, you may add here the audio script of the course, to make it look like sub titles.
I have attached the Power Point slide I created. Do use if it is helpful.
Thank you very much it´s helpful. Although my problem is; I did develop a lot of course in that 16X9 format. That means I have to change them if I want to use the full with!
Thank you for you help
Willem
Ah! I see.... Do your courses have a lot of animations? For the static ones, you can just take a screenshot of the slide and put it in the 4:3 PPT... and add a black background. Should be fine.
Just don't forget to compress your images!
We always learn from specialists like you thank you!
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