In order to ensure that your presentation runs smoothly from the computer network that will be set up, please find below some recommendations for preparing your presentation and bringing it with you.
Of course, a fully equipped Speakers Preview Room with highly skilled AV-computer technicians will be at your disposal, but experience has shown that many problems could have been avoided with some simple measures taken when you make your presentation and before you leave for the conference. This can reduce last-minute stress considerably.
Please come to the Speakers Preview Room as soon as possible and no later than 30 minutes before your session starts.
Our preview staff will be there to help you. If you have the slightest doubt please contact the Speakers Preview Room as soon as you can. The more time they have available, the better they can solve the little problems that may arise. Your presentation will be loaded onto our computers, checked with you to make sure it plays back smoothly and finally will be saved onto the hard disk of the presentation computer.
Our presentation computers are running on Windows XP professional. We have Powerpoint XP installed as well as Powerpoint 2000. Please check your presentation thoroughly with our technicians at the Speakers Preview Room if you are using an older version of Powerpoint.
Please note the following recommendations:
1. Use MS Powerpoint (MS Office 2000 and higher).
2. Use enough contrast between background and text.
Dark text on a light background, light text on a dark background. Some of the predefined "design templates" do NOT give a good result when projected, because of lack of contrast.
3. Use simple text "fonts".
The "ideal" text fonts are Arial and Tahoma (as opposed to e.g. Times). These are the most easy to read. Do not make the text too small.
4. Pictures
Picture size and resolution:
Always use a picture enhancement programme to change the resolution and size of your picture to "72 dpi" and "1.024 x 768 pixels".
Picture type:
When you've adjusted picture resolution and size, save the picture to your disk as JPG file (avoid TIFF of BMP).
5. Movies
MOV or Quicktime formatted videos cannot be integrated into MS Powerpoint presentations. Video files should ideally be saved in the AVI or WMV format.
6. Saving your presentation
Save your presentation and all video and sound files to a
removable disk. Videos and sound files are NOT embedded in your presentation, so you should bring them with you. The easiest way is this:
Thank you very much for your cooperation! If you have any other questions please do not hesitate to contact us at info@regmed.org.
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