Serious Magic Ovation

by Serious Magic

Product 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

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000BQ57DI
• Item model number: 10039-000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 12, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,584 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #11 in Software > Business & Office > Presentation > Marketing
  • #45 in Software > Graphics > Image Capture

Product Description

Product Description

Ovation™ turns lifeless PowerPoint® slides into a stunning visual experience in seconds. Select from over 100 sensational PowerLooks™ to add subtle motion, high-resolution text, and dynamic TV-style transitions to plain PowerPoint slides. Ovation also offers built-in presentation tools that help you deliver a superior message. Using your laptop’s external output, audiences see your presentation full-screen while you see tools like a secret teleprompter that help you hit key points without memorizing, a TimeKeeper™ to eliminate going into presentation overtime, and a Go Deeper function to attach expanded information to your slides that you can optionally dive into in response to audience questions.

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has promise but not ready for prime time, January 28, 2006

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Daniel D. Feinberg (San Clemente, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Serious Magic Ovation (CD-ROM)

I also teach PowerPoint as well as many other presentation Apps.Other Apps and general Computer skils.
I saw Ovation at CES and I bought it. First of all it can now handle embedded videos but without the full control that PPT has. It also will not allow you to loop or automaticaly advance a presentation so it will not work for show displays or kisoks. The number of power looks are limited and there are no new ones available as yet. Once someone sees these than it becomes old stuff. More are needed. The text size is sometimes reduced to fit in the power look you are using making it hard to read. The custom anamations available in PowerPoint are replaced by one, and one only next element entrance. It is a good one but it gets old quickly. Anamated gifs are not as yet supported and become still pictures.

On the positive side the anamated backgrounds that are available are well done and interesting and it is very easy to use. When you first see a presentation in Ovation you are impressed with the look.

Overall,I rate the program as it is as FAIR but the promise is there. To make it a high value program that you will use over and over again the developers have to include all the good stuff that PowerPoint offers while improving the look as they have already done. Right now I feel that I have lost as much or even more than I gained.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A product that has a future ... but just not there yet., July 4, 2006

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Bayo Akinola-Odusola "Founder of DoThis! Get ... (United States & London UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Serious Magic Ovation (CD-ROM)

Add fairly good add-on and support for Power Point presentations, but it does currently have limited things to offer.

after the initial impressive presentation and probably after you've downloaded the 15-day trial version, you'll begin to rethink your initial views of the software.

It does work and can indeed brighten up presentations. But in my honest opinion as a presentation skills coach and trainer, I would say that the software has potential but is not quite there yet in terms of wowing and retaining that initial impression you get when you come across it.

Try the 15-day trial first before you commit to any purchase decision. It'll help you make up your mind better.

24 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding - add magic to Powerpoint effortlessly!, January 9, 2006

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C. Cutler (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Serious Magic Ovation (CD-ROM)

I teach presentation skills, so I'm always on the lookout for things that make PowerPoint better. I've tried and recommended other software in the past, but none of them have the power of Ovation.

This is an outstanding piece of software. The visual effects are stunning, and it's so easy to use that a child could learn it in a few minutes. PowerPoint is boring, and everyone's presentations look the same. Not any more! Full-motion backgrounds and effects really jazz up your presentations, and they have over 100 professional-looking business themes available. See their website (seriousmagic dot com) for a demonstration of what it can do. All you have to do is drag and drop your PowerPoint presentation on the Ovation icon, choose a theme and the effects, and voila! - a new presentation!

The current version 1.0 can not process embedded video or audio files, but they say that will be fixed with the first patch within the next month or two. Despite that shortcoming, this is the best PowerPoint enhancement available - heads and shoulders above the competitors.