Presentation Software

[MSIuser]

I was at a conference last week, and I had a look at the equipment being used to control the presentation. I saw a rather interesting program running the presentation. It looked to me as though they had one monitor showing boxes to select text and background etc, then there was the output which sort of put it all together. This to me looked really interesting and I would love to be able to get my hands on it if there is such a program.

In other words, is there such a program that can have one screen showing option then another giving an output on another monitor? I normally run my presentations with my screen mirrored using powerpoint's view show, and the output coming from the TV Out on my graphics card.

[David_Jones]

Only sounds interesting if you need to change things on the fly?

If you are well prepared, with optional 'paths' in your presentation, why would you need to be able to select text boxes, change the background etc while you are actually presenting?

Probably I am missing something here?

David.

[SonicVanguard]

I'm sure the presentation was using Powerpoint. But the computer was also equiped with a dual head graphics card. A dual head card - like those from ATI or Matrox - allow you to have seperate windows open on each monitor (or TV). So you can have a presentation running on one monitor (or in this case maybe a TV or projector) and see your presentation layout on the other monitor.

HTH.

[David_Jones]

I'm with you now I think.

I've seen that too - where you have two monitors attached with different views on each. That could be useful if you have to switch the order of presentations or something as you go I guess.

David.

[MSIuser]

It was because when I do powerpoint presentations it is usually for things like worship etc. So the worship leader may choose to repeat a verse or something and this would allow me to switch to the verse he doing very quickly and without having to search through the whole presentation to find it. It's ok though, I have found there is a way to do it in Powerpoint. I got a Geforce 4 Ti so I got dual monitor support.

Thanks for the help!
David