New Presentation Software Mashup Media Files

At the Red Herring conference in Monterey I was introduced to Freepath, Grass Roots' digital presentation software, shipping now. You can watch the demo yourself online and there is a free trial available here.

Having done more Power Point presentations than anyone deserves, there are things I appreciate with Freepath. It allows you to mashup several kinds of media files to your presentation, including PowerPoint, PDFs, photos, videos, music files, live web sites, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets (shouldn't use those too often in a presentation though) and even Mac-generated files on a PC. And it's actually rather simple to edit the videos in Freepath.

Also, the software comes with different display options; try the meeting view that let you see the play list and can bump around among your slides as you feel like whereas the audience only see the content of your choice - no need to exit presentation mode. During a presentation, you can rearrange files, pull a new file into your PlayList, or pause to take notes in a PowerPoint file. And it still looks like you came all prepared.

The online price is $149 from the Grass Root store. The market price is $249.