If your meeting has several contributions and you want to keep track of them "Timer for Conference" can help you.
You plan your meeting, conference of broadcast schedule with e.g. Numbers or Excel. In the planning phase it helps to use spreadsheet features to prepare a good program for a meeting or any kind of a session with multiple contributions.
T4C imports CSV files and gives you a graphical overview of a session. When the session is running a timer for the presenter is displayed with just the
information the speaker needs to stay within the scheduled time. The session coordinator gets a graphical display how talks are deviating from the planned schedule.
The session coordinator selects, starts and stops the contributions. With a new auto timing mode in version 3 one can also run predetermined sessions without coordinator intervention.
As a meeting leader you can concentrate on listening the talks, T4C helps you to keep track of the session.
This is a new updated version 2021. Beside the changes of the user interface it has a new feature for media production. Once enabled
this mode does not require any further user interaction. In this mode it steps through all contributions and shows the remaining times. The presenter
window indictates the actual running contribution title as well as the next one.
Timer for Conference is available in Mac App Store and runs on Mac OS X 10.11 or higher.
Information of all presentations:
Start "Numbers" from the help menu. This opens a preconfigured sheet that can be used as a template. (Numbers or Excel can be started from the Program folder as well.) The template has equations to calculate the end of a talk from its start, duration and gap for questions and answers (Q&A). You specify the start of the session and the length of each talk. The equation helps to fit the contributions into a session with a given time range.
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Green shows the used time so far. It turns yellow short before the scheduled end of the talk.
A red progress bar indicates overrun of the talk
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Timer for Conference session with Touchbar controls on a MacBook Pro.
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A time scale with the time of day as a blue vertical line.
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The slots of the running session. Green indicates the ongoing talk duration.
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The slots of the planned session. In this example the talk slot 2 is selected.