Posted by: Joe Devietti on: April 17, 2009
One of the cool things I learned about Powerpoint the other day is that it’s possible to create interactions between an embedded Flash movie and the presentation itself. This allows you to coordinate animations across the movie and the slide, e.g. to have a mouse click sometimes advance the slide and sometimes trigger some action [...]
Posted by: Joe Devietti on: March 15, 2009
Here are some instructions to help you run the presentation I gave on Deterministic Shared Memory Multiprocessing at ASPLOS 2009. The presentation itself can be downloaded here. This presentation uses Shockwave Flash movies embedded in Powerpoint, and interaction between the two, so there are a few steps you have to go through to get everything [...]
Posted by: Joe Devietti on: March 12, 2009
Here’s how I got the Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX Control to install under Windows Vista, so I could embed Flash movies in Powerpoint. Go to the Flash Player download site. Download the “Adobe Flash Player 10 Update for Flash CS4 Professional” zipfile – 44MB. Unzip the archive somewhere, and go to the Players/Release/ directory. [...]
Posted by: Joe Devietti on: February 21, 2009
I decided to use Flash for the animations in a recent academic conference presentation. Making it work with Powerpoint was tricky, but, I think, ultimately worthwhile.
