Frustrated as I intend to use the High Definition Commentary: Romans Keynote slides. Since I couldn't find them listed, I called Customer Support. They did their best to help, but found out that the graphics can only be exported as jpegs. They are not editable in any way. No animation can be applied to individual items or colors changed for impact. Furthermore, When a slide has a list of items, there's no way to display the graphic item by item as one explains the lesson. It's all or nothing.
I noticed a complaint about this in a "slides" package that sells for people that bought the physical book, but they have the same problem. Unsure of why this would be called PowerPoint and Keynote ready when they are not.
Any help will be appreciated.
- As I was still trying to salvage some images for use in Keynote/PowerPoint I realized they end up being low resolution when exported. Since the book is text-based in Logos and is for reading/research, the graphics included are not good enough to broadcast to the church from my computer through AppleTV at 1080p or even 720p. (Maybe Proclaim is a low res presentation software?) Frustrated to no end!!!!
- Hi Jorge, I am very sorry for the frustration by the graphics. For copyright reasons, the decision was made by the publisher to ship static rather than editable graphics. As you stated, the graphics in the text itself are low-res, but the ones available through the right-click menu for export are hi-res, formatted in either 4:3 or 16:9. I believe the expectation with the hi-res graphics is that they would be exported into a weekly presentation of 3-8 graphics rather than as the entire book. Also, on p. 4 of the commentary there is a description of the components used for you to create additional graphics, or boxes that could cover bullet points to allow animation if you wanted. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced using the slides. The High Def Commentary project was an experiment to try and blur the line between exegesis and presentation. Your idea of having the graphics be fully functioning slides is a good one. Unfortunately, the production costs of the current version were high enough that there are no future volumes planned. Hope this background provides more perspective on the publishing decisions, and that you are able to make use of the commentary despite the limitations you have identified. Warm regards, Steve
- Thank you very much for your reply. I did try the right-click and save, but the quality is still less than desirable. I do understand the limitations sometimes imposed on authors. I think that Logos needs to do a better job at marketing these specific materials in a more transparent and honest way. As they stand right now, they are over-promising and under-delivering. The advertising, especially of the slides package, makes it sound like they are editable and specifically adapter for PowerPoint, Keynote and Proclaim, which they are not. Again, thank you very much for responding.