OT:Software used to present Apple’s recent event

[Alan Okey]

Two possible scenarios:

If this split screen presentation format is done live, I doubt that this is commercially available off-the-shelf software. More likely, it’s a special in-house presentation app that Apple wrote for its live events. It’s probably just a software front end for a hardware video and RGB switcher. Apple has a history of using custom hardware and software for its live keynotes, including iPhones with special video boards in them that allow the screen to be output to a projector, and software that composites the iPhone screen output into a rendering of an iPhone on the projected image.

The application now sold as Keynote was used originally used by Jobs for his presentations before it was released as a commercially available application.

If the split screen effect is not done live, only for the post-produced streaming file, it could be created using any number of off-the-shelf apps, including Motion. Apple stopped doing live streams of their events some time ago.

[Rafael Amador]

I don’t see that any difficult. Just with a mixer, a camera and some graphics you can do it alive.
Or in FC.
rafael.

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

You will need fxfactory pro and the Perspective reflection filter:

https://www.noiseindustries.com/downloads/misc/FxFactoryHelp/pluginguide/distort/perspectivereflection/index.html

or the video conference transition:

https://www.noiseindustries.com/downloads/misc/FxFactoryHelp/pluginguide/transitions/videoconference/

Jeremy

[Chris Anderson]

I’m looking to edit something like this after the fact as I won’t have control over the laptops generating slides. So I was curious if this was Apple’s answer to something like Camtasia Studio.

Chris Anderson

[Mark Suszko]

Snapz Pro is often used as the mac version of what Camtasia does. And it is cheaper than the Camtasia product.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I personally use Telestream’s ScreenFlow. Totally Kick Butt, but all you need is the Keynote presentation, the video and a few plugins from Noise Industries.

Jeremy

[Chris Anderson]

Thanks Jeremy,

Do you know if Screenflow adds the reflection?

-Chris

Chris Anderson

[Zane Barker]

[Chris Anderson] “I’m looking to edit something like this after the fact as I won’t have control over the laptops generating slides. So I was curious if this was Apple’s answer to something like Camtasia Studio”

Never used Camtasia but seeing as it is a screen recording software, I believe that Apples answer to that is the screen recording abilities in the new QuickTime X.

I’m sure that the presentation was most likely made in Keynote, and then the presentation graphics were later cut together with the live footage of the event again most likely using FCS.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!