User blog:BJFRacing14/Champion Prevue project status

You may or may not have seen the update on the original post "Project Code Blue: Champion Prevue". I did my level best to make the Sneak Prevue based Champion Prevue guide work on PowerPoint. However, my graphics card isn't built for heavy graphics loads. If it had, say, a graphics card that you'd find in an Alienware computer, then that would work perfectly. And no, don't tell me to get a Mac because I'm not. I know Mac's can run PowerPoints more smoothly with very little to no lag on most OS X systems from 10.7 to current version. But that's neither here or there. The point is that I sadly had to scrap the PowerPoint project altogether after many adjustments, two takes, one with no audio, the other with audio, however the second take was off sync video wise as it played faster than the audio my screen capture had recorded. So, because of it, I will not run PowerPoint any longer to create the DCG (or Digital Channel Guide). I am only going to use it for a still shot of the DCG. As for animating it, don't ask because my computer is not a multi-media computer. It's an Inspiron 15 by Dell from 2013 which ran Windows 8 before the upgrade to Windows 10 and the Intel Pentium chip sets aren't made for heavy graphics loads like the Prevue Guide scrolling grid. The videos will play nicely without lag, however, it's the heavy ladened animation that the chip sets just don't like dealing with simply for what it was originally designed for. The graphics card and chip set are really for home usage, just for your average run-of-the-mill tasks.

So, with that, I resorted to an alternate method by way of the Sneak Prevue Emulator thanks to the fine folks from the Prevue Guide Forums who programmed the emulator. This emulator allows me to put in the segments that I had made in the PowerPoint, however, sadly, they aren't animated as Sneak Prevue never used animation, except for the "Sneak Prevue Tonight", "Premiering Soon", and "Coming Soon" segments plus any applicable video segment. The listings themselves were not animated as they just simply cut in and cut out after two seconds roughly.

With all the manual programming to input on the emulator, this will take longer. It's kinda like running Windows 3.1. You'd have to play with it a bit and get a feel for how it works before you are in state of proficiency.

That's what's trending so far with the Champion Prevue project.