Hi all, here is my feedback on using the Milkymist at a high level event in presentation mode with images. It would be great to get feedback on the usage of the m1 in these situations.
I really want to have a mode for simple advancement through performance mode rather than just one patch mapped to one button. ### Heya, my presentation went decently. Yi, thanks so much for the wiki page for how to get images onto the m1. I got all of the slides on the m1, but there are a couple of things: 0.) For some reason, I had the milkymist running perfectly well on screen, and I had my laptop running on the other screen, and the conference had a video switcher. I had 2 hours to wait from my setup until when I could present, and I had no opportunity prior to my presentation to check the milkymist. Soooo, when I started my presentation on my normal laptop, all slides worked as normal. When I went to switch to the milkymist, and granted this was in front of Gordon Bell, high level people from Lockheed-Martin, Fedex, US Government and more, the Milkymist was in the admin screen. So, I immediately had to click compile the patches, and on-screen the loading bar took forevveeeerrrrrrrr. To the point where I had to make a joke about the compilation taking time...basically, it made the M1 look like its slow. But, then after that the m1 functioned fine in the performance mode. However, I didn't have enough time left to get through all my slides (my problem), and I had to let people know the m1 is designed as an instrument, so one can jump around to different patches. 1.) the resolution must be increased on the pictures. Its just toooo low for the expectation of an audience and I'm sure other users. 2.) we need a simple simple way to hit one button to advance slides. Basically, during a live presentation, you don't have the brainpower to actually use multiple buttons and keep track of where you are in the presentation. I mapped all of the buttons of the remote to slides, but I definitely got out of order on my slides uncomfortably, and could not find my way back. That was super super super embarrasing and it made me sweat. Soooo, we really really really need a simple way to advance through patches in the performance mode with the remote and/or the keyboard. Without it, seriously cannot give a good presentation. That is why presentation remotes are stupid big with the forward and backward arrows. Here is the remote they let me use during the slide component of my presentation: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=presentation+remote&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=629&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=14990461217659400046&sa=X&ei=DCjhTqvbAsOtgQfB54jrBQ&ved=0CKABEPMCMAA http://www.smklink.com/index.php?id=Mzk1 Anyway, I made some good connections, but totally was out of my element when asked "how does what you are saying apply to people in the room who manage 1000's of employees..." At only allowing 24 slides (which is not bad if one considers that most presenters have too many slides), would be great to have more ability to have more images for use in this type of slide show format. Sooo, while the overall presentation people enjoyed, I hope we can learn from this to make using the milkymist for live presentations better. I will keep giving more presentations and would like to use the milkymist for every single presentation I need to make to reinforce its usefulness. Jon -- Jon Phillips 王✳爻气 http://fabricatorz.com ✳ skype: kidproto ✳ irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) ✳ +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) -- Jon Phillips 王✳爻气 http://fabricatorz.com ✳ skype: kidproto ✳ irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) ✳ +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
