Product Description

Ovation converts ordinary PowerPoint shows into visually stunning presentations. Capture attention, increase retention and deliver results -- by turning ordinary slides into highly-polished, professional presentations in a few seconds. Any flat, static PowerPoint show is automatically "re-imagined" into a television-quality look, with smooth animated motion that must be seen to be appreciated.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4056 in Software
• Brand: Serious Magic
• Model: 10039-000
• Released on: 2005-12-13
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• Select from over 100 sensational themes called PowerLooks – to add subtle motion, high-resolution text, dynamic transitions to plain PowerPoint slides
• Be confident with powerful built-in presentation tools that help deliver your message better
• Go Deeper prepares you for audience questions by attaching hidden, expanded information that you can optionally dive into in response to audience questions
• TimeKeeper keeps you on pace by letting you know at a glance if you're ahead or behind schedule
• PointPrompter helps you stay confident by helping you remember facts, figures, dates and other data without cluttering up your slides

Customer Reviews

Great stuff - until you upgrade to Office 2007
I got the trial and bought the software shortly thereafter. For those who are PPT maniacs, it's pretty limited. For the other 99.99999% of us, it's great because you don't have to spend a ton of time on animations, tweaking it, or worrying about everyone having seen it before (at least the first few times :D ).

However, Adobe bought Serious Magic last year. Microsoft released Office 2007. And having Office 2007 installed on a computer is sufficient to cause Ovation to work in creative and unique ways that are not especially helpful. In my case, I have a 1300-slide deck I use for training. No, I don't use 1300 slides - more than half are hidden and exposed only as required. But when I open Ovation on my Office 2007-enabled laptop, I see 1300 title slides.

Called Adobe Ovation support, and eventually got the right answer: Yes it's broken, no it won't be fixed any time soon. My only saving grace was that I never anted up for a support plan.

Bottom line: If you're on Office 2003 or earlier AND have no plans to upgrade to Office 2007, I strongly recommend it. But if you've gone to 2007, it's too late - run screaming in the other direction from this dismal excuse for a revenue scheme.

DO NOT BUY THIS DEADWARE !
Ever since Adobe bought out this small operation, customer service has been severely lacking. Software will NOT work on Excel 2007. The promise for additional POWERLOOKS has become dead. Granted that the program makes presentation more interesting, the Powerlooks that was in production are no longer on the website. This is highly disappointing as I purchased this program in anticipation for further development on the Powerlook templates.

Useful, but limited capability
This program can really spice up the right presentation; however, it has some significant limitations when it comes to imbedding and linking objects, among other Powerpoint functions that I considrer essential.