Speaker Support Centre
The SSC hostess will be happy to welcome you to a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Highly experienced and skilled technicians will assist you to transfer and check/correct your presentation.
Once your presentation is processed in the Speaker Support Centre (SSC), you are strongly advised to familiarize yourself with the controls of the Cue-it ® program, which is used to display the presentation. The technicians are more than willing to explain the features of this system. The practice-system supplied is an exact copy of the one used in the lecture room.
All speakers giving a presentation are requested to validate, upload and test their presentation in the SSC a minimum of two hour before the session starts, or the day before if the session is at 07:30! Presentations received after this deadline cannot be guaranteed with optimal audiovisual support. Peak hours of operation in the SSC are during coffee breaks and lunch breaks. In order to maximise your time in the SSC, and the attention that we are able to give you, we highly recommend visiting early in the morning or during the sessions.
Supported Media
The accepted media in the Speaker Support Centre are:
- CD-Rom / DVD (data)
- USB / Flash drives
Supported Software
ACS Audiovisual Solutions currently supports the following software, during Meetings using our Cue-IT ® presentation system:
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 and earlier editions
Audio: audio files integrated in a PowerPoint such as mp3 and wav.
Video: AVI and MPEG movies, integrated in a PowerPoint presentation, using among the following codec’s:
- DivX H.264 [version 8.2.0.26]
- Xvid MPEG-4 [version 1.2.2]
- On2 VP7 [version 7.0.10.0]
- MPEG-2 / MPEG-1
- Windows Media 11
If some movies in a presentation do not work during testing, we will convert them to a format that PowerPoint accepts through a video converter program.
The next items need certain attention in the Speaker’s Support Centre:
- *.mov and *.tif files integrated in PowerPoint
- Hyperlinks inside a presentation
- Starting movies by clicking on it
- Flash movies
Restrictions
Personal Laptop Computers cannot be connected to the projectors in Lecture Rooms
A Presentation cannot be loaded directly on the computer in the lecture room.
If you are a mac-user, make sure that you check-in early with the Speaker Support Centre for your mac-presentation to be converted to a pc format.
In the lecture room
In the lecture room, you will open your presentation, by touching the box with your name on the touch screen. Moderators will follow the presentation on a dedicated monitor placed in front of them.
There is a mouse pointer embedded in the Cue-it system, which we recommend using instead of a conventional laser pointer, as they will be difficult to see on most projection screens.