You know how it goes. You’ve got this video you want to show your audience. PowerPoint does a pretty fair job of encrusting that Windows format video into one of its slides. Usually, you insert it and then grab a corner to resize it to however large you want… Or, of course you can clumsily alt-tab to some minimized video player and try to make it full screen without your audience noticing.
There are lots of ways to use video in your digital storytelling. It’s amazing how many places, in many different sizes and lengths video comes in these days. They usually contain more material than your audience should be expected to consume in one sitting. We’ve always wanted a fast way to just show the most fetching part of any video.
That explains a little about Freepath’s video prep tool:
This should give you a picture of our priorities. You see only a few simply presented functions. You can bring in any video you like, yes even QuickTime, and start wherever you want in the clip, as well as stop wherever you want. Just one button click to set each of those. Then you can set play volume, the playlist thumbnail and an option to replay the clip in a loop. Again, one click on each choice.
Freepath plays all videos as a full screen experience. Uh… because you have a screen that matches your audience’s viewing preference. That said, here’s a bonus, you can still encrust that video in a PowerPoint slide if you want to play it old school.
Freepath gives you two ways to play your videos in full screen. If you take advantage of the dual display feature, you’ll have access to the AV rack while video is playing. Check this out (shown here as playing alongside an audio cue):
As you can tell, when using dual display, you can pause, jog and adjust volume while playing your video. Just one more way Freepath puts you in control of your content, rather than the other way round.
Next time: You’ve got sound effects or a whole audio track to run while you present? No problem in Freepath.
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