Because a fair number of you downloaded lectures last week in the QCShow
format after I mentioned what we've been working on for the past several years,
let me show you something I put together this Sunday evening: a documentary-like
movie assembled first in PowerPoint and then converted into QCShow format.

To create the movie, I scanned in images from a PBS-produced book that
accompanied Ken Burns' "Mark Twain" documentary series and put those images into a
PowerPoint file. I then recorded sound segments off of the "Mark Twain" video
tape and CD that I purchased from PBS. The sound and image files were then
synchronized and compressed in QCShow's SoundEditor program. The result is a
seven-minute "movie" at:

  http://aics-research.com/qcshow/demo/twain-demo/twain-demo.qcshow

While we created QCShow primarily for scientific, technical and sales
presentations, I think that there is obviously some potential value in using it for
more artsy projects, and in that regard, in the next version of the player,
we'll put in blend and fade transition capabilites so that its presentations will
appear even more like a PBS/Ken Burns-style documentary, but one that can
transmitted over the internet at minimal bandwidths instead of at television
speeds.

Wirt Atmar

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