Learning with the Fang

Today is OpenDay at the University of Adelaide. I’m there helping out at the Faculty of Sciences corner of the Science tents. I’ve already uploaded a couple of short videos on how to find us and some early morning pictures of the setup activity. The plan is to come back and update this post from [...]

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This Sunday (Aug 16) is open day at the University of Adelaide. Open day offers a great opportunity to come on to campus and take a peek at some of the fascinating stuff that goes on here. The faculty office where I have a desk has been a hive of planning activity for weeks leading [...]

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I’m planning to spend some time at the wayville showgrounds taking some photos and qik videos to help promote some local science.
UPDATE: Pictures from day 1 (Saturday) HERE.

From the national science week website:
Science Alive!
Now in its 4th year, Science Alive! is one of the premier events in SA. This huge FREE community event will be [...]

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Design->Page Setup->Custom 27.09cm x 15.24 cm

Make your slides (with bugger all text boys and girls)

Save As (Other Formats) jpeg (exports each and every slide to a .jpg image of 1024×576 pixels precisely)

Quicktime player (pro)

file open image sequence, pick first file in numbered series from the folder created by powerpoint save as

allow 10sec per frame

save as quicktime .mov movie (will use apple jpeg codec by default) expect about 4mb per 100 slides.

iDvd new project, 16×9 PAL (Professional Quality)

Drag your .mov to autoplay area in the ‘map’ view

Select that movie and choose options -> loop

Burn to DVD.

All will be good.

converting powerpoint presentation to widescreen DVD format

1024×576 DVD PAL

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