I have one large presentation file, and for different presentations I reorder and enable/disable slides depending on the context, and available time. However managing slide and presentation durations is proving to be a pain. Currently I have a separate spreadsheet with the slide durations, but trying to maintain and keep in sync is really not feasible.
This is what I would love to be able to do:
- add presenter notes for all of my slides (done)
- somewhere global, define a ‘words per minute’ (e.g. 160)
- auto calculate:
- the duration of each slide
- the start time of each slide (cumulative sum of all previous ACTIVE slides)
- the duration of the entire presentation (cumulative sum of all ACTIVE slides).
I would love to have the duration and start time of each slide displayed in the navigator on the left in the normal view, and in the slide sorter view.
It would also be nice to override the auto calculated time with a manual time if need be.
I’m quite comfortable programming and scripting in many languages, so if there is an interface where I can add a feature like this as an addon I should be able to figure it out, but I would love some pointers to start.
(Adding such a feature to the core codebase is probably something I wouldn’t have time for right now!)
NOTE: I do not want the slides to advance automatically, and using the ‘rehearse’ functionality does not work for my requirements. Because for each presentation, I reorder and enable/disable slides. I don’t want to rehearse the entire presentation everytime I make an edit. I just want the ‘duration’ of each slide to be a property of the slide, and everything else is autocalculated.