This week, I combine an application tutorial together with a real life example on how I've used it to create my presentation at this weeks New Media Expo.

The application is Bee Docs Timeline and Timeline 3D Edition - a fantastic Mac application that allows you to create beautiful timelines for printing, publishing, presenting or exporting as HD quality movies.

The main thrust of my New Media Expo presentation is a description of the journey I've taken since starting ScreenCastsOnline back in August 2005. Obviously, I settled on Keynote as the application to put the basic presentation together, but I needed something to create the central element of the presentation - the timeline. After being switched on to Bee Docs timeline by my good buddy, David Sparks of MacSparky.com, it became apparent straightway that this was the ideal application. Once I saw the 3D capabilities of the application, I was sold, and as for being able to export in HD Quicktime format so I could integrate with Keynote, well it doesn't get much better!

Interestingly, Bee Docs Timeline is not just restricted to pure chronology and has a whole bunch of importers built in to access different types of data and present them as a timeline, allowing you to view information in ways you may never have considered before.

So this weeks show (and it's a long one) takes you through:

• Creating a Simple Timeline
• Manually creating events on the timelime
• Formatting your timeline
• Printing
• Importing Events from iCal
• Importing Events from RSS
• Exporting your timeline to PDF
• Why a 3D Timeline?
• Exporting your Timeline to Keynote
• Exporting your timeline to Quicktime
• Integrating your Quicktime Movie with Keynote

This weeks show has been sponsored by Bee Docs and a 25% discount code is available on the standard, 3D edition and upgrades from August 14th through September 30th 2008 - use coupon code: SAVE25

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More iWork 08 goodness this week as I take a look at some of the new features in Keynote 08, Apples fantastic presentation application.

Keynote 3 was great but Apple have added in some additional features that really take Keynote to the next level. It's one of those applications that make you thankful you're a Mac user and might even just make those business users sitting on the fence make the final leap!

There is already a full ScreenCastsOnline tutorial on Keynote 3 covering some of the basic functionality so this week's show focusses on the new and improved elements within Keynote 08. The show also takes a more advanced approach on how you can configure the new features to create even more sophisticated and impressive effects!

This weeks show includes:

• Introduction & New Effects
• Smart Builds
• Integrating Smart Builds with Bullet Points
• Instant Alpha
• Creating Animations
• Presenters Display Setup & Usage
• Adding an Audio Narration
• Exporting & Printing

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Following on from the recent Pages 2 screencast, this weeks screencast covers the other application included in the iWork 06 suite from Apple.

Yes, it's the amazing presentation package Keynote 3

In this screencast I'll show you the basics of setting up a Keynote presentation and demonstrate some of the fantastic templates and effects available. You'll be suprised at just how powerful this package really is, just ask Al Gore! Please note - This episode is intended for ScreenCastsOnline Extra! members or for purchase. The free version is a glorified advertisement for the full show so please don't be too disappointed if you download it!

ScreenCast Covers:
KeyNote Themes
Slide Creation
Slide Transitions
Slide Animations
Importing Photos, Movies and Music
Creating a Music Theme in GarageBand
Exporting in Quicktime

And as a first, I even get to show up onscreen!

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Some good Keynote related links - Les Posens CyberPsych Blog KeynotePro

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