iPad Slide Presentations

The Coach's Office slideshow program activates a playbook feature named Application Compatible Images (ACI) to save pages and plays that can be uploaded to your iPad. Then give slide presentations with the iPad app Draw on Slides, which allows you to quickly load slides sequentially from an album folder with your Coach's Office page and play files.

Create the Image Folder Structure on the PC

iTunes 10 can sync a single folder or an entire folder structure of Coach's Office playbook images from the PC to the iPad. Once on the iPad, the PC folders become photo albums and the playbook images are called photos.

Create a master folder: Do not save images to this folder. (fig. 1, Football Plays) Add sub folders: Save images to these folders. The name of the folders will be the photo album names on the iPad. Save images to a folder in the order they are to be presented. The first image saved is the first image displayed.

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Save Playbook Plays for iPad Presentations

• Open Coach's Office playbook.

• Go to the page with the play to be saved as an iPad image.

• Click the Play Box tool and then select the play box.
  • If you forget to do this first, the Save Page/Box as Image dialog box stays open, and you can go back and do it.
• Click Save Page/Box as Image. (fig. 2)

• The Save as Image dialog box displays. (fig. 3)

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• Click Play and the next screen of the Save Play as Image dialog box displays. (fig. 4)

• Browse to the target location to save the image. (fig. 4)
  • Remember, save images to a folder in the order they are to be presented on the iPad.
  • The play name displayed in gray is the offense, front, and coverage, separated by an underscore (_).
• Click iPad in File Type. (fig. 4)

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• Click Save Play. The play is saved as the displayed name. (Of course, you will not see the file name on the iPad.)

• Select another play and then click the Save button. To save you time when saving several plays, the program prompts you to select another play and the save it. (fig. 5)

• Click Cancel when finished saving plays. (fig. 5)

• Sync images from PC to iPad Using iTunes. .

Save Images for Hudl, Mobile Devices & Other Applications

The ACI Save Play as Image feature also saves images that can be uploaded to Hudl, mobile devices, and as JPG, which may be used in other applications, such as Word and PowerPoint. (fig. 4)

Save Playbook Pages for iPad Presentations

• Open Coach's Office Playbook Software.

• Go to the page to be saved as a iPad ACI.

• Click Save Page/Box as Image. (fig. 2)

  • The Save as Image dialog box displays on the page. (fig. 2)

• Click Page. The Save Page(s) as Image Files dialog box displays.

• Browse to the target location to save the page image. (fig. 6)

• Enter the page number(s) and/or range, following the example format on the screen. Space between entries and add a hyphen to a page range.

  • In the above example, the pages that will be saved are 129, 130, 131, 135.

  • Remember, save images to a folder in the order they are to be presented on the iPad.

• Click iPad in File Type. (fig. 6)

• The page images are saved.

  • The Processing Page Number dialog box displays the page numbers as they are saved.

• Sync images from PC to iPad Using iTunes.

Playbook play uploaded to iPad; colored lines in Draw on Slides app

Sync Images from PC to iPad Using iTunes 10

Now that the playbook images are saved as iPad images on the PC, sync them to the iPad.

The following instructions are provided for convenience only. If you have questions or need further assistance, consult the guidelines provided by Apple.

• Log in to iTunes
• Plug the iPad into the PC
• Under Devices on the left, double click the iPad. (fig. 7)
• In the toolbar, click Photos. (fig. 8)

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• Check Sync Photos from. (fig. 9)
  • Select All Folders to sync a main folder with sub folders or a single folder.
  • Click Selected Folders to choose multiple individual folders.
  • Select all the folders to sync at one time as only the most recent sync remains on the iPad.

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• In the My Pictures dropdown, select Choose folder. (fig. 9)
• Browse to the folder location. (fig. 10)
  • In our example, choosing All Folders and selecting the Football Plays folder syncs the three sub folders.
• Click Apply in the bottom right corner of the screen.
• The new album folders and playbook photos are ready to view on the iPad.

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iPad Slideshow App: Draw on Slides

The Draw on Slides iPad app lets you select the album with your photos (i.e. playbook images), load the first photo to show, and draw on any photo as you navigate through the slides in the order your saved them in the folder.

You can draw on the slide in color with lines of varying width, add an arrow to the end of the line, more. (See image at the top of this column.) [Draw on Slides iPad app]