PowerPoint/Wink swf poor image resolution

[norb]

I have created a PowerPoint presentation and I want to use Wink to
create the animations (swf files) for demonstrating how to use a
software application. The problem is that when I play the Wink-created
swf file, the resolution of the animated screen shots is very low and
unreadable. How do I improve the quality so that when I use PowerPoint
as my player, it becomes legible?
Thanks,
Norb

[Donald Scattergood]

My first question is, how big is the screen area you're capturing?  Wink does not scale well at all, so it's important to display the video in the same format that you capture it.  Typically PowerPoint presentations are full-screen display, so you're Wink video will almost have to be a smaller display, skewing the quality of the format.  Try changing the resolution of your screen prior to capturing the Power Point so that it will play back in a smaller window.  For example, if you are currently at 1440x900, change to 800x600 for the screen capture.

Second question, are you viewing the video using the .htm file that Wink creates?  I'm not 100% sure why, but the .swf files that Wink creates are optimized for viewing through an embedded Javascript viewer.  If you look at the presentation using the .htm page that Wink creates when it renders you'll get the best possible resolution.

Don.

[norb]

I am very new to Wink. I decided to use PowerPoint to "drive" the
presentation because there are places where I need to display a lot of
text for introduction of a concept or other explanations prior to
displaying the actual software application on-screen. If all of this
information is written into Wink callouts or text boxes with the
application shown in the background, the screen looks too cluttered
and busy, thereby reducing a learner's comprehension. So what I want
to do is "chunk" the presentation into alternating occurrences of
textual information followed by Wink (swf) animation.

I have been viewing the video using the swf file that Wink creates.
When I press a "next" button that I created in PowerPoint, this points
to the swf file. It sounds like you're saying I should point it to the
htm file. Maybe I'm going about this in the wrong way; perhaps I
should be capturing the PowerPoint slides through Wink. What do you
think?
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On Aug 17, 12:37 pm, Donald Scattergood <dscatterg...@gmail.com>
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[Pete]

Norb,

One alternative approach would be to do your entire presentation
within Wink, by inserting blank slides at appropriate points in your
presentation. To me, this is yet another great feature within Wink.
I don't know if you have tried this, but within Wink, under the
Project pull-down menu, there is an option called "Insert Frame." If
you click on that, you can choose to insert a blank frame in your
presentation. From this point, there are a few options:

1. The new frame will default to a black background. Just click on
the cursor and press the Delete key to get rid of it. You can then
place a large text box on this frame of any color, and make it full
"screen", thus effectively changing the background of the frame to the
new color. Then add a new textbox, and click on the Properties
button. Look under the category called Road Signs, and select
Transparent. Choose a text color other than your background, and your
text will appear on the screen without a frame. Just build the screen
this way, however you like.

Note: By copying this frame, and adding just one more line of text in
a similar fashion, you can even imitate the builds one sees in a
PowerPoint presentation.

2. An alternative would be to create your text slides in PowerPoint,
and then export the slides as image files. You could then "Insert
Frames" in Wink, and on each frame, click the Add Image button, and
simply upload the image of the appropriate PowerPoint slide. Size the
image to cover the entire frame, and it would look just like a
PowerPoint slide.

Echoing what Donald wrote, I have not had good results linking
directly to the compressed swf file. What seems to work best is to
place the htm file and the swf file in the same folder, and then
create a hyperlink to the htm file.

I hope this helps.

- Pete