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I tried it, it broke.
Your program locked up my computer. I had to literally pull the plug because it was locked so badly that I could not even ctl+alt+del. I tried it again, locked up my system again. On the 5th try, after stripping my system down to the bones and disabling everything not operation critical, I got it to make a run without crashing my system. My system is 2 GHz -512 Ram -160 GB, so is not cutting edge, but also not a dog. At the time of my testing my system was 1) recently defragmented, 2) recently culled of temp files, 3)virus free, and 4) not connected to the net in order to allow for 5) the virus scanning to be turned off. I had made a simple 6 slide trial presentation in under 5 minutes. No video, no sound, just 3 jpg pictures, text, and animations. The Video Output from your program was poor ... well ... that's far too generous -- it was horrible. (I admit, I never burned your video output to a DVD, but I figured, "Why waste a perfectly good DVD disk?") The output to the hdd could hardly improve enough in the transfer to a DVD to merit the waste of electricity required to burn it. I think your software managed to capture a little less than 1 frame per second while the system was manipulating graphics, perhaps double that while the CPU was not busy. Slow fades didn't fade, they clunked thru 2 mid stages. Motion animations jumped half a screen per capture, some were not captured at all. Text animations were cut short or not captured at all. I would be embarrassed to show the output to any client of mine, and trust me, they are the forgiving sort. Do I think users should try your software? Sure, why not. The trial is free and if they have time, bandwidth to spare, nothing to do for a day or two, and want an 'adventure'; than I say, "go for it." However, if they are looking for something that works right now, I don't feel right about pointing them to something that I feel will waste their time and probably not fulfill their need. Don't misunderstand me. Nothing would make me happier than to have a feature, like you are attempting, become available to PowerPoint users. I just don't think your product achieves what was attempted. Are the MVP's picking on you? I don't think so. If I may venture a general opinion for all the regulars on the NG (both MVP's and non), we do take our passion for helping others seriously. We try programs so we can see how well they work, and how they might be used by PowerPoint users. We then offer our suggestions and recommendations, whenever the topic is brought up by a real poster to the NG, based on our personal experiences. Keep in mind that MVP is a honorary title and does not carry any salary; we volunteer do this because we like to help people. If anyone has an opinions or experiences that differ from mine, they are always welcome to post it. -- Bill Dilworth Microsoft PPT MVP Team =============== Please spend a few minutes checking vestprog2@ out www.pptfaq.com This link will yahoo. answer most of our questions, before com you think to ask them. Change org to com to defuse anti-spam, ant-virus, anti-nuisance misdirection. .. .. wrote in message oups.com... Try to use PowerPoint2DVD on http://www.powerpoint-to-dvd.com PowerPoint2DVD can burn your PowerPoint slideshows onto DVD or miniDVD, including your background music and inner links. For example, if your PowerPoint has several subcategories, each ones open a different slide show when you click on it, the software will keep the links like a DVD movie does, you can remote to select the different categories easily by your DVD controler. Any questions please visit the website or email to ------------------ Although, I see some people (almost from the Microsoft MVP members with various name) posted articles in groups and their sites, try to persuade people not to use PowerPoint2DVD, for some problems it may has, etc. Well, I'm not angry with that, we are still confident with the product, because we have so many customers, it does work and help them that is the biggest encouragement for us to go on. We don't disavow that each program may have a little bugs, ours is not different neither, like some burning issues, there are too many factors should be considered in, and maybe the problem is not related to the software, but your devices or settings. No matter what, we will try our best to help you, we want to offer you the most satisfying tech-support and customer services, besides that, if you still not satisfied with the product, we make sure that we will not be hesitate to refund all your money back if you purchased. We have received many gladness from users, and that's saying a lot. --------------------- yours sincerely, Wondershare Software PowerPoint2DVD Team |
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In addition to Bill's opinions, mine is quite simple:
This is a place to post questions on how to use PowerPoint. This is NOT a place to advertise your product (whether it works great or not)! PERIOD! Also, nothing will give you worse reviews than posting your own "ghost" questions just so you can answer your own posts with "use our program"! -- Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor - XP www.pttinc.com Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/ Check out Word FAQs at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/index.htm "Bill Dilworth" wrote in message ... I tried it, it broke. Your program locked up my computer. I had to literally pull the plug because it was locked so badly that I could not even ctl+alt+del. I tried it again, locked up my system again. On the 5th try, after stripping my system down to the bones and disabling everything not operation critical, I got it to make a run without crashing my system. My system is 2 GHz -512 Ram -160 GB, so is not cutting edge, but also not a dog. At the time of my testing my system was 1) recently defragmented, 2) recently culled of temp files, 3)virus free, and 4) not connected to the net in order to allow for 5) the virus scanning to be turned off. I had made a simple 6 slide trial presentation in under 5 minutes. No video, no sound, just 3 jpg pictures, text, and animations. The Video Output from your program was poor ... well ... that's far too generous -- it was horrible. (I admit, I never burned your video output to a DVD, but I figured, "Why waste a perfectly good DVD disk?") The output to the hdd could hardly improve enough in the transfer to a DVD to merit the waste of electricity required to burn it. I think your software managed to capture a little less than 1 frame per second while the system was manipulating graphics, perhaps double that while the CPU was not busy. Slow fades didn't fade, they clunked thru 2 mid stages. Motion animations jumped half a screen per capture, some were not captured at all. Text animations were cut short or not captured at all. I would be embarrassed to show the output to any client of mine, and trust me, they are the forgiving sort. Do I think users should try your software? Sure, why not. The trial is free and if they have time, bandwidth to spare, nothing to do for a day or two, and want an 'adventure'; than I say, "go for it." However, if they are looking for something that works right now, I don't feel right about pointing them to something that I feel will waste their time and probably not fulfill their need. Don't misunderstand me. Nothing would make me happier than to have a feature, like you are attempting, become available to PowerPoint users. I just don't think your product achieves what was attempted. Are the MVP's picking on you? I don't think so. If I may venture a general opinion for all the regulars on the NG (both MVP's and non), we do take our passion for helping others seriously. We try programs so we can see how well they work, and how they might be used by PowerPoint users. We then offer our suggestions and recommendations, whenever the topic is brought up by a real poster to the NG, based on our personal experiences. Keep in mind that MVP is a honorary title and does not carry any salary; we volunteer do this because we like to help people. If anyone has an opinions or experiences that differ from mine, they are always welcome to post it. -- Bill Dilworth Microsoft PPT MVP Team =============== Please spend a few minutes checking vestprog2@ out www.pptfaq.com This link will yahoo. answer most of our questions, before com you think to ask them. Change org to com to defuse anti-spam, ant-virus, anti-nuisance misdirection. . . wrote in message oups.com... Try to use PowerPoint2DVD on http://www.powerpoint-to-dvd.com PowerPoint2DVD can burn your PowerPoint slideshows onto DVD or miniDVD, including your background music and inner links. For example, if your PowerPoint has several subcategories, each ones open a different slide show when you click on it, the software will keep the links like a DVD movie does, you can remote to select the different categories easily by your DVD controler. Any questions please visit the website or email to ------------------ Although, I see some people (almost from the Microsoft MVP members with various name) posted articles in groups and their sites, try to persuade people not to use PowerPoint2DVD, for some problems it may has, etc. Well, I'm not angry with that, we are still confident with the product, because we have so many customers, it does work and help them that is the biggest encouragement for us to go on. We don't disavow that each program may have a little bugs, ours is not different neither, like some burning issues, there are too many factors should be considered in, and maybe the problem is not related to the software, but your devices or settings. No matter what, we will try our best to help you, we want to offer you the most satisfying tech-support and customer services, besides that, if you still not satisfied with the product, we make sure that we will not be hesitate to refund all your money back if you purchased. We have received many gladness from users, and that's saying a lot. --------------------- yours sincerely, Wondershare Software PowerPoint2DVD Team |
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What Bill said except:
If the product actually works and actually is the answer to a real poster's question, then I would say that it is OK to post it in that context. If the product does not work or is not the answer to a real poster's question, then, as Bill said most eloquently in his email address: "Eat Spam and Die." --David -- David M. Marcovitz Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ "Bill Foley" wrote in : In addition to Bill's opinions, mine is quite simple: This is a place to post questions on how to use PowerPoint. This is NOT a place to advertise your product (whether it works great or not)! PERIOD! Also, nothing will give you worse reviews than posting your own "ghost" questions just so you can answer your own posts with "use our program"! |
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