Dorchester — Mar 13th 2018

With David M we looked at how to make slides for a Keynote presentation starting with the choice of standard or wide format and a template. He covered formatting text and using animation to have the text appear in various ways and sequences. Moving on to images he showed how to import or drag and drop them, use Instant Alpha to remove backgrounds, applying masks and then using animations to have objects appear and disappear. David reminded us about Brian Tapper’s trick of showing the visible pasteboard outside the slide’s margins on the screen so that items can follow a path from there onto, around and off the screen.

Using iCloud Drive David switched to his iPad and offered the same presentation showing how to create, format and animate objects as on the Mac but using intuitive IOS gestures. Having built up a single slide based on a screen shot from his iPhone, David added two other completed slides to cover how to ensure that Messages and FaceTime are set up in such a way that a phone number and email address operate as one single account.

After the break John demonstrated ‘Voilá’, a screen capture app with a comprehensive range of annotation tools which he has used for several years and explained in some detail. He moved on to the more modern version ‘Capto’ from the same developer which adds excellent video and sound. You can select all or any part of the screen to capture. John showed how to cut, join, trim or crop videos, not unlike editing in QuickTime. The price on the App Store, where it gets high customer ratings is £28.99 but a single license from globaldelight.com valid for use on two Macs is discounted to £19.99, or even, if you are fortunate, just £13.99. Upgrade pricing from Voilá is also available.

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