avi vs gif ans to presentation large

[suzanne]

I switched from the gif to avi and it does make the pp
presention smaller but the quality (big pixels) is not as
good as the gifs. I am using morpheus to do the morphing
and making it an avi compressed file then selecting
microsoft video1. Don't know what that means but it made
it work and didn't make the morph so long. (some other
choices made it too long or said it is not compatable) I
do want to burn all this on a cd to play at the reunion.
Presentation system will be used hope it all works.
Thanks for any and all advice

 

[B]

Suzanne,

Thank you for getting back to us. The quality of the AVI sounds like it may
be related to the Morphing program limitation. I've used AVI's that show in
PowerPoint with high quality. The options that it said were non-compatible;
where they codec related? Sometimes, software designers use special formats
in their video clips, for whatever reason. They may have this special codec
on their web-site. I'd check it out, just to make sure. Or check here:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00103.htm

As far as loading it all onto a CD, see this link for good advice:
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

Hope all goes well for your presentation,
B


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[Austin Myers]

suzanne

Because morphing causes blurring of pixels and compressing video removes
unneeded pixels of roughly the same color, you are going to see the
pixilation to some degree.

However, you can minimize it in a few ways. Using the Microsoft Video-1
codec offers you the choice of high compression or high quality. Rerun your
application and when saving it move the quality slider to the highest
quality (to the right in Morpheus). Also click on "Advanced" and move this
slider to the far right. This should make a significant improvement in the
quality of the AVI.

The other option is to save it as an uncompressed AVI. The file will be
quite large but offers the very best quality.

I am curious, what do you mean when you said some of the other options made
it to long?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[suzanne]

I mean it made the play back time longer - 23sec on one
and longer than 1 minute on another. I don't want this
ppt to be big or long - 10 to 12 sec max. each avi morph
Thank you for the info I will try it.