[Sheik]

PowerPoint just doesn’t do the job… I want more!
I started looking at alternative software for making presentations, slideshows & some multimedia. There seems to be a ton of different products out there, but finding a good one by testing them all will take forever…
So does anyone have any suggestions? What is the ultimate, easy to use but still versatile, presentations & multimedia tool? Maybe I could even make video tutorials with this software?
Sheik

[Jeff Tamagini]

Flash is always a good choice, because I agree with you powerpoint is crap

[Maximus3D]

Macromedia Director will be my suggestion, it's a seriously good program which you can do all you want with and then some.. and it got a very powerful builtin scripting language called Lingo.

/ Max

[Leonardo]

The only one that I know would be flash... but it's not a one click solution like powerpoint

[Carl007]

Keynote if you are on a mac...

http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/

[Sheik]

I’m on PC, but Keynote would be a step forward from PowerPoint.
The Adobe products seem a bit too complicated for what my needs are, and I am confused by the number of different apps they have that do almost the same thing. One-click software rarely does the job, but I am afraid Director and Flash are just too many clicks. It would be important to still be able to make a simple presentation in five minutes when needed.
Googling “presentation multimedia software” brings up a ton of rather shady looking shareware alternatives, but nothing really jumps out. Maybe Harvard Graphics Advanced Presentations is worth testing?
Sheik

[bjorn.syse]

What I do is I use Adobe InDesign, and lay everything out and export as PDF. I don't get any transitions or animations, but it's very cut n' paste-friendly with Illustrator and photoshop..

[Jeff Tamagini]

if you just want a series of stills alla slideshow style flash is really easy, just load up all your images in the key framer, then just like doing an animation set your keyframes with the appropriate amount of time between them save as a flash video and you are done....well there are a few more steps but thats the basics....and i dont know a whole lot about flash

[rusteberg]

look into Adobe Captivate.

you can find the 30 day here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/?sdid=ZHBQ