Presentable for Pc

I was looking for a presentation software to reliably show QuickTime movies for a film festival. I like the support for QuickTIme Movies and the ability to play them from a list onto a secondary display. However, I had no control over playback. They start playing automatically, and you can’t stop or pause them. I would like to have a reliable way to “cue up” a movie and present (play) the movie to the seconday display, with the option to automatically move on to the next movie (slide) and begin playback. Also need to be able to pause the presentation at any time and resume from where I paused. For example, when I now open the app, it loads my last presentation and begins playing the movie on my first slide. I can’t control this (I can’t see it either, only audio). Then when I click on one of the other slides, it begins playing as well. Now I’ve got two streams of audio going on and no ability to make it stop. STOP!!!! AHHH!!!! Some good ideas, and a lot of emphasis on the Leap Motion Controller, but still very much a work in progress. The lack of control over movies is a deal breaker for me.

I was looking for something similar to PowerPoint. I can’t afford to shell out 300 for Microsoft products. I found this and hoped it would be similar, even finding that the decription sounded wonderful and exactly what I was looking for. Only I stumbled across an overly-simplified app with virtually no tools or even a way to create a half decent presentation for class. It’s simply put- an image collection creator with footnotes.

I wish I had found this app a week or so earlier. I recently managed a series of presentation where I was given various forms of media including a number of PowerPoint presentations and separate videos. I had to jump back and forth between applications, while keeping my other eye on who and what was up next. With this app it would have been so much simpler, I could have loaded up all the PowerPoints and videos in their sequential order and then ran it all as one single this app presentation, too easy! As soon as I saw this app on the app store I downloaded it, this was probably very shortly after its inaugural debut. I have a retina powerbook and there was an issue with the crop feature. I contacted the developer and he asked for screen shots which I provided. Within 48 hours the problem was identified as specific to retina displays and shortly corrected in the very next this app update. Not only was I very impressed with how quickly the problem was addressed and resolved but I was equally impressed with the ease and immediacy of my communication with the developer. It was obvious to me that he was ready, willing and very able to do whatever it took to hear and then address any and all questions or issues. There was no stonewalling or indifference, instead I felt I was being addressed with complete respect as a valued application user whose feedback he appreciated. There could not be a better customer relations experience. We even discussed some future developmental concepts for the application that we both saw as desirable and I came away feeling sure that in short order there will be further improvements, possibly such as video letter-boxing, in the not too distant future.

Great idea, just poorly executed. I HIGHLY recommend making some video tutorials. Yes, there is a short document available when you first open the application, but it's confusing and the program is hard to use. Please make application more user-friendly.