How To Make Presentation On Macbook Air

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Are you planning a business or school project presentation in front of many people using your MacBook? For that, you might need to connect MacBook to a projector. It is not a difficult thing to do. Here, I will share the steps how to use a MacBook for a presentation using a projector.

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How To Connect MacBook To A Projector

Get An Adapter And HDMI Cable

You can connect MacBook to a projector using DVI, VGA or HDMI cable. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't provide HDMI or VGA ports on their Macs. So, you have to buy the adapter separately. There are various adapters in the market, but make sure to buy the right one. First, identify what type of ports your MacBook and the projector have.

How to play fortnite on macbook air without lag. For MacBook early 2015 and later/MacBook Pro late 2016 and later, you can use USB-C VGA multi-adapter or USB-C Digital AV Multi-adapter. If you own MacBook or MacBook Pro late 2008 and later, use Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter. You will also need a video cable, like VGA or HDMI cable.

Connect MacBook To Projector

How to download sims 4 cc on macbook. Before you plug the cable and the adapter to MacBook and projector, you have to turn on both devices. Connect the adapter to one of the MacBook ports. Then connect the one end of HDMI or VGA cable to the projector and the other end to the adapter. Make sure the cable and adapter are plugged perfectly.

Set Up Your Mac

After you connect MacBook to a projector using the cable and adapter, it's time to set up your MacBook. Here are the steps:

  1. Click the Apple logo on the right corner of your MacBook screen and select System Preferences.
  2. On the new pane, find Displays and click on it.
  3. Once the Display pane appears, click the drop-down menu tab next to the 'Optimize For'. Here, you will see your projector name. Click on it.
  4. Click Arrangement on the upper menu tab of Display pane and make sure to tick the 'Mirror Displays' box.
  5. Done.

That's all. Now, you are ready to do a presentation or watch a movie from your MacBook using the projector.

There are lots of different ways you can set up a computer and projector at your church but after 15 years playing around with various options here is the system we have ended up with at our church. We want the words up the front for people to sing along to and we want the singers to be able to read from a screen in front of them as well.
I guess all the requirements of our system can be described as follows:
  1. Something that is easy-to-use and people can use with little or no training.
  2. A computer up the back so that if something does need to be changed in the middle of a church meeting it can be done discreetly.
  3. A projector screen up the front for the congregation to look at.
  4. A computer monitor for the singers to sing off that shows the same thing that the project is showing.
  5. The ability for the singers to advance the slides with a clicker.
  6. The ability to play a movie.
  7. The ability to play a Microsoft Power Point presentation if a visitor brings one along.
  8. The ability to display photos off a thumb drive if someone brings them along.
  9. The ability to easily select songs and insert them into a meeting plan without having to retype in the words each time.
We have tried a few things but have ended up with something fairly simple…

Software

In terms of software, we use Apple Keynote for all our slides. We play it from a Macbook air.

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If we want to watch a DVD we rip the DVD onto the laptop first using an external DVD drive with a program called handbrake then play it as as a movie from within a keynote slide.
If someone brings along a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on a thumb drive we can easily import it into keynote. Sometimes the formatting changes a little.
If someone brings along a thumb drive with a lot of photos we can simply drag them off the thumb drive into keynote.
We have tried Microsoft PowerPoint, it was too clunky to use. Even though we had all our files in powerpoint, we made the transition from PowerPoint to Keynote and it has been much better. It was a lot of work initially to retype all the slides in, but worth it.
We also trailed something called ‘Proclaim’ which is pretty fancy, it automatically downloads the song lyrics from CCLI ‘song select', it has nice visuals, you can play YouTube videos directly off the web to avoid copyright problems etc. But in the end although it had more features it was problematic when we got someone who didn’t know what they were doing. It also requires an Internet connection, that's fine but if the Internet is down I still want my presentation to work! The keep it simple principle means that we have gone back to keynote. Keynote just works.
We have a master keynote folder with all the songs in it, each song is a single keynote file. I have moved this folder to the dock so that I can simply click on it it displays all the songs, I clicked the song I want and it opens. This is what it looks like when it pops up a list of songs from the dock:

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The song lyrics start on the first page of the song file and the last page is blank. All we do is open last week’s keynote, delete the old songs, open the new songs, drag them across, and the keynote is ready to go for this week. We don’t need to add in any blank slides as they are already on the last page of each individual song file.

Hardware

In terms of hardware, we have a HDMI splitter coming from our computer. It takes the HDMI output from the macbook air and sends it out over cat 6 cable. We use a mac display port to HDMI adapter to plug into this unit.

One output from the splitter goes to the projector and the other output from the splitter goes to a flatscreen computer monitor that is sitting on a music stand in front of the singers. There are three spare outputs that we don't use but we might use them one day.
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It’s a very simple HDMI splitter that cost around $200 or so, it sends the signal over cat 6 cable, and then there is a receiver at the projector and a receiver at the singer’s monitor. We got them from WES components in Sydney.

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This is what the receiver looks like, it cost $65.
The singers have a Logitech USB clicker that they use to change the slides from up the front. The range of the clicker was not long enough to reach up the back reliably, so we have a USB over CAT5 extender so that the receiver for the clicker is up the front next to the singers. The USB over CAT5 extender cost about $10 off ebay. The Logitech USB receiver stick plugs into the CAT5 extender, then there is CAT5 cable all the way back to the computer at the desk, and then the other end of the CAT5 extender plugs into the USB port on the computer.
We also have a VPN setup where people can watch what is on the keynote from their iPad. There is one visually impaired girl who uses this every week. She brings along her iPad, logs into the Wi-Fi network, and can see the slides on her iPad. The singers do they do not use this system – there are too many things to go wrong streaming the words over Wi-Fi, so I prefer the singers to have a hard – wired HDMI connection to the computer.




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