Where to put presentations--Powerpoint and Keynotes?

[dtraughber]

Any thoughts on where to keep presentations such as Powerpoint or Keynotes? They don't fit exactly into documents (text files) nor image files. If in images, I suppose it would go into archives. (I understand why one keeps images, etc. out of the Users folder.)

Peter, you had mentioned on August 11, 2009 (http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=a0b9178da8c412dc1ed2ff1e4f42ab20&topic=4175.15) "Expression will open your package files and attempt to find any images that are inside.  It can see images inside Keynote files, for instance. The solution (and not just related to Expression) is to segregate your file types a bit. I keep my presentation files together (these include most of my keynote and powerpoint docs, for instance).

Where do you keep these presentation files? Working files? Archive? I suppose that depends on the status--in process, or finished? Another place?

How about naming convention for these presentations?

Then to find these presentations one would have to depend on cataloging, right?

What do you recommend?

Thank you!

dadre

[dtraughber]

Peter,

I read in Chapter 8 of The DAM Book where you keep current Keynote and Powerpoint presentations in Working>Demo>Current. What I want to know is where one might best archive these presentations. Is this done along with the archived images? You catalog these with Expression Media, right?

Since I'm putting images together to catalo, archive, and bucketize, now is the time to get that sorted out.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Dadre

[johnbeardy]

I'd say it depends how fundamental these are to the DAM-controlled workflow. If fundamental, and needing similar control, then I'd be tempted to put them in the derivatives folder. If they are more an activity incidental to safeguarding and finding photographs, like your email about pictures, then they belong elsewhere. The latter seems more probable in most cases.

John

[dtraughber]

Thank you, John, for your insight. I wanted to see where folks far more experienced than I would handle these. Your answer framed it in a better way.

Just couldn't take the leap of imagination to see where they'd best fit. Most are documentary, some are ongoing projects for educational purposes, and are fundamental.
Looks like it's basically my call. Since I'm trying to follow the DAM practice that Peter has organized, I needed to get those ducks in a row too.

Thanks again,

Dadre

[johnbeardy]

Maybe another way is to consider how far the presentation is a derivative of the images. If for instance it was a slideshow for the client who commissioned the pictures, then I'd probably say it was as much a derivative as the TIF/PSD files, and belonged with them.

By the way, my "like your email about pictures" wasn't very clear, so I'll rephrase it as "...more an activity incidental to safeguarding and finding photographs, like email about a shoot, then they belong elsewhere."

John

[dtraughber]

Yes, that makes sense.

Looks like I may just keep these slide presentations in another area. One less thing to clutter the DAM flow.

By the way, things are coming along with the migration, thanks to all the help from the DAM forum and folks like you. It has been not unlike trying to solve a difficult Sudoku puzzle. Everything has got to line up in every which way, nothing missing, all in order.

It's getting there. But there's always room for more mistakes and challenges.

Thanks again for your help. It's greatly appreciated.

Dadre

[dtraughber]

Sorry I didn't mention this in the previous post, but hats off and accolades to Peter for the brilliant "The DAM Book" and the forum.  It's the greatest antidote to floundering with assets in the digital photography world. Now we have no excuse.

A fellow flounderer, but reforming....

Dadre

[peterkrogh]

Dadre,
I keep the presentations in my working folder, since I might want to make slight changes every now and then. I don't catalog them. However, my "Demo Assets" folder has ballooned to 100GB, so I probably need to prune it a bit.
Peter

[dtraughber]

Thanks, Peter, for your reply. Good to know that you don't catalog them. I'll just keep the presentations most used in the Working folder, and the rest will find a home elsewhere, but not in the DAM flow. That'll keep things more simple.

Going through The DAM Book is a great ongoing learning experience. Thank you again. And again.

Best,

Dadre