These articles should tell you how to use Auto Presentation Switcher (APS) in the simplest possible way from the user-interface and with keyboard-shortcuts.
Get started using APS. Learn how to download and start the program, and prepare yourcomputer for presentation-control. Both Mac and PC there are some security-permissions you need to give to ensure that the presentations can be remote-controlled.
You don't need Companion or the user-interface to switch presentations or display images: Our global keyboard-shortcuts can perform the most basic operations of the program, and they will work also when the APS user-interface is not active.
Forget the hassle of merging PowerPoint presentations into one large file: With the presentation-linking feature, APS ensures that when you are at the end of a presentation, clicking "Next" on the presentation-clicker will take you to the next presentation in the folder.
To unleash the full potential of APS, you should pair it up with the Companion software and a Stream Deck controller. This gives you dedicated buttons to start presentation, control slides and more, and with LAN connection, you can control APS from any device on your network.
We go through the steps for connecting APS to Companion on the local network, and show some commands you can use to test that everything is working properly.
Download Companion pages for controlling APS through Stream Deck. We have made pages customized for Stream Deck XL, + and MK2, controlling presentations, media and web-pages.
APS lets you display images and screenshots that will stay on top of the screen. You can create smooth transition between presentations, and cover the screen when there is nothing else to be displayed.
Use our media-player to play videos and graphic loops on the same display as your presentations.
Keynote for Mac is a popular presentation-format for professional speakers that want to engage their audience. With APS you can control Keynote-files, advance the slides, and get real-time updates on the presentations.
PowerPoint is the industry-standard for presentations. And APS has a rich integration with PowerPoint for Mac and Windows, with commands and feedback that shows the status of the presentations and files.
PDF is still a commonly used presentation-format on conferences and events. With APS, we make it easier to open PDF-files, and display PDF-presentations in fullscreen on the correct monitor.By combining
Control Google Chrome tabs like Slido and Google Slides using Stream Deck and APS. This new feature is designed for AV technicians who want faster, more reliable control of web content during live events - with fewer mouse clicks.
Auto Presentation Switcher (APS) is used by AV-technician to get better control of the presentations and media-content. In these articles we discuss what role APS can have as a part of a bigger AV-setup.
As an AV-technician on corporate events you will receive presentations with embedded videos. Is it safe to play them from PowerPoint, or is it better to move them to an external player? The short answer is: It depends on who will push "play".
How do you handle presentation-clickers as an AV-technician on corporate events? In this article, Morten tells about his disasterclass with clickers in the beginning of his career. And we explain how APS makes it easier to intergrate clickers in your setup.
We show you different ways to combine PowerPoint presentations for Mac & PC: Copy & paste slides, use hyperlinks or let APS do the job. And you will learn one very important lesson when pasting slides: Pay attention to the formatting options!
PDF is a great format store and share documents, but it has some drawbacks when used to display presentations on conferences and events. By using APS, dealing with PDF becomes much easier.
The user-guides should tell you all you need to know about APS. And with the public API, you can build your own applications that controls APS over the network.
This is our official reference-guide for everything concerning APS for Windows. A copy of this guide is also available in PDF-format from the program-interface, in case you dont have Internet-access
The APS API lets you control and monitor our app using http-commands. This page gives you all the necessary information needed to get starting making custom APS controllers.
Everything you need to know about APS for Mac. We keep a separate guide for Mac and Windows since there are some differences in how APS works on these platforms.
Mac & PC