Ovation is a new presentation software which allows non-technical presenters to add strong visual impact, animation effects and sound in a completely automated way.
Existing PowerPoint presentations can be imported into Ovation and converted into fancy-looking shows with only a few mouse clicks.
Ovation gets the existing PowerPoint presentations and transforms them using more than 100 pre-established templates and backgrounds.
Ovation has been designed to be used by users with basic computer knowledge, giving to them good quality PowerPoint slides.
Using an intuitive interface, Ovation allows the user to control many of the common presentation tasks, such as slides appearance, presentation time management, information related to the slide and hidden slides.
Features
Ovation has a very simple user interface that enables users to manage the application in an intuitive way. In the applications screen the user can control his/her presentation time vs. the scheduled time, look the presentation look and feel, can review the notes that are related to that slide or switch to hidden slides to expand a point. Finally, the user can also control all the presentation flow within the same screen.
Other Features
Ovation also adds some uniquely interesting features as:
- the transformation of presentation low-resolution fonts into high-quality rendered text.
- the addition of smooth animation effects.
- the dynamic highlighting of individual bullet items inside each slide, while visually muting the previous ones, allowing readers to focus their attention only on relevant items.
Templates
Ovation includes a large set of ready-made templates which already integrate all of the above unique functionalities, including, very fancy-looking animated backgrounds, music soundtrack, pre-embedded effects and more.
You can see more examples of high quality templates on the Ovation official site. According to Ovation, 100 high-quality templates are included in the full version of the software.
System Requirements
- Windows® 2000 or XP
- Processor Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron class 1.6 GHz, Pentium M / Celeron M 1.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 1600 Recommended: - Pentium 4 / Celeron: 2.4 GHz - Pentium M / Celeron M 1.7 GHz or - AMD Athlon 2400
- 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)
- Graphics Processor Minimum: Any NVidia GeForce, ATI Radeon or Intel Extreme or better graphics processor with 32 MB of graphics memory Recommended: - ATI Radeon 9800 class or better - NVidia GeForce 6600 class or better - 64 MB of graphics memory
- CD-ROM drive
- 450 MB available hard drive space
- Microsoft PowerPoint XP, 2003 or newer (also comes with Microsoft Office)
Purchasing information
There are two versions of Ovation: Business Licenses (US$99.95) and Academic Licenses (US$77 or less, depending the volume purchased.)
A 15 days trial of Ovation is immediately available for download.
If you want to know more about Ovation, visit its Frequently Asked Questions.
