PowerPoint is fast becoming the software of choice for the courtroom.
With its video handling capabilities along with the ability to
link to any slide, program or file on our computer or the www,
we now have a complete courtroom presentation system at our fingertips.
Just a few years ago there wouldn't be much to write about. Sure
we had the Elmos and slide projectors and of course the tape recorder
and the VHS player. Unfortunately, none of these allowed for non-linear
presentations.
If we wanted to play a section of an audio tape we had to cue
it up in advance and if we wanted another section, well, we just
had to fast forward or rewind until we found it. Same thing with
the VHS tape.
With the advent of the computer, we can now have any type of document,
image, sound clip, video image, animation etc. at our fingertips.
With the LCD Projectors, we can now display our computer screen
and anything on it in incredible detail for all to see. Editing
video clips and sound bites have become an easy chore. How we get
these images out of the computer and into a killer presentation
is another new area of expertise.
In this book and companion CD, I have endeavored to demonstrate
ways of bringing together these elements and presenting them in
a way that is graphically attractive as well as non-linear.
What
this book will teach you is how to specifically build a courtroom
presentation rich with hi-impact video and graphics. The reasons
to use the different graphic file formats. Tips and tricks for
using Flash. Best resolutions for clear courtroom display.
Setting up the navigation of a presentation, in short, everything
that you already figured you needed to know but when you looked
it up in your big fat manual, you couldn't find it.
PowerPoint is the tool that can produce Killer Summations,
Hi Impact Impeachment, Time Lines that come alive, Links to Photos,
documents and drawings, use it to make rebuttal presentations on
the fly. Once you get the feel for it, it will do just about anything
you can imagine.
Used by itself or in concert with a Courtroom Presentation Software
program (like Sanction II or Trial Director) you
will be able to create rebuttal presentations while testimony is
being given and come back after a quick break with a rebuttal argument
that includes video and hi impact graphics.
About
Herb Rubinstein
