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I would like to run (in the background of my slide presentation)a movie and
have the option of overlaying text onto the slides
have the option of overlaying text onto the slides
Michael Koerner said:This cannot be done. Movies are always on top of everything else.
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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
|I would like to run (in the background of my slide presentation)a movie and
| have the option of overlaying text onto the slides
FloridaMan said:It seems somewhat strange that 3rd party software, and MUCH CHEAPER
display
software can make it work, but the giant Micro$oft talent can't figure out
how to do it and make their product more versitile!
Michael Koerner said:This cannot be done. Movies are always on top of everything else.
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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
|I would like to run (in the background of my slide presentation)a movie
and
| have the option of overlaying text onto the slides
Austin Myers said:I think you misunderstand, what you see almost all other software do is create some sort of "video" or recorded script that is
later ran. PowerPoint is doing a real time rendition of the content in the presentation while the video is ran as a separate
thread. To change the text integrated into a video or even in a scripted playback requires a lot more work that making a text
change in PPT. Flexibility in editing a presentation is one of the key factors that has made PowerPoint so popular.
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com
FloridaMan said:It seems somewhat strange that 3rd party software, and MUCH CHEAPER display
software can make it work, but the giant Micro$oft talent can't figure out
how to do it and make their product more versitile!
Michael Koerner said:This cannot be done. Movies are always on top of everything else.
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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
|I would like to run (in the background of my slide presentation)a movie and
| have the option of overlaying text onto the slides
Stephan Schaem said:Austin Myers said:I think you misunderstand, what you see almost all other software do is create some sort of "video" or recorded script that is
later ran. PowerPoint is doing a real time rendition of the content in the presentation while the video is ran as a separate
thread. To change the text integrated into a video or even in a scripted playback requires a lot more work that making a text
change in PPT. Flexibility in editing a presentation is one of the key factors that has made PowerPoint so popular.
Not all software
Powerpoint uses GDI to render the slide content and its not the best suited for realtime compositing.
But it works on all machine that can run windows, so Microsoft sacrificed visual feature for compatibility.
Not a bad choice, because I sure allot more people would be complaining "Why doesn't powerpoint 2007
work on my 6 year old laptop?!"
After Vista is out for a 'while' you might find new version of Powerpoint starting to use the new graphic
feature of the OS, and Powerpoint will be able to do visually allot more.
Stephan
www.seriousmagic.com
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com
FloridaMan said:It seems somewhat strange that 3rd party software, and MUCH CHEAPER display
software can make it work, but the giant Micro$oft talent can't figure out
how to do it and make their product more versitile!
:
This cannot be done. Movies are always on top of everything else.
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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
|I would like to run (in the background of my slide presentation)a movie and
| have the option of overlaying text onto the slides
Yeah, but if PowerPlugs: Video Backgrounds Player and other program
add-ons
can figure out how to do it,
Yeah, but if PowerPlugs: Video Backgrounds Player and other program add-ons
can figure out how to do it, shouldn't you expect that M$ could figure it
out?
Why pay big bucks for PowerPoint, then have to shell out another $100+
to get it to do what you need it to do to get something besides very crude
presentations?
Stephan Schaem said:factors that has made PowerPoint so popular.I think you misunderstand, what you see almost all other software do is create some sort of "video" or recorded script that is
later ran. PowerPoint is doing a real time rendition of the content in the presentation while the video is ran as a separate
thread. To change the text integrated into a video or even in a scripted playback requires a lot more work that making a text
change in PPT. Flexibility in editing a presentation is one of the key
Not all software
Powerpoint uses GDI to render the slide content and its not the best suited for realtime compositing.
But it works on all machine that can run windows, so Microsoft sacrificed visual feature for compatibility.
Not a bad choice, because I sure allot more people would be complaining "Why doesn't powerpoint 2007
work on my 6 year old laptop?!"
After Vista is out for a 'while' you might find new version of Powerpoint starting to use the new graphic
feature of the OS, and Powerpoint will be able to do visually allot more.
Stephan
www.seriousmagic.com
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com
It seems somewhat strange that 3rd party software, and MUCH CHEAPER display
software can make it work, but the giant Micro$oft talent can't figure out
how to do it and make their product more versitile!
:
This cannot be done. Movies are always on top of everything else.
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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
|I would like to run (in the background of my slide presentation)a movie and
| have the option of overlaying text onto the slides
Steve Rindsberg said:Yeah, but if PowerPlugs: Video Backgrounds Player and other program add-ons
can figure out how to do it, shouldn't you expect that M$ could figure it
out?
Why assume that they can't?
Why not instead assume that they've considered it, weighed the likely cost against
the expressed needs of the majority of their users, future marketing plans and
whatever else makes MS tick, and decided that the time and money would be better
spent on other features?
Why pay big bucks for PowerPoint, then have to shell out another $100+
to get it to do what you need it to do to get something besides very crude
presentations?
Because PowerPoint doesn't do what you need it to do.
True, an AWFUL lot of people are looking for more sophisticated handling of videos
in PPT. And true, it sure could use it. And maybe it'll be there in the next
version and we can start grumbling about something else we'd like it to do but it
doesn't. It makes a lousy cup of tea, I'm told. Something must be done. ;-)
In the meanwhile, we'll have to accept that it doesn't do everything, and we'll
have to find tools that do.
Stephan Schaem said:I think you misunderstand, what you see almost all other software do is create some sort of "video" or recorded script that is
later ran. PowerPoint is doing a real time rendition of the content in the presentation while the video is ran as a separate
thread. To change the text integrated into a video or even in a scripted playback requires a lot more work that making a text
change in PPT. Flexibility in editing a presentation is one of the key factors that has made PowerPoint so popular.
Not all software
Powerpoint uses GDI to render the slide content and its not the best suited for realtime compositing.
But it works on all machine that can run windows, so Microsoft sacrificed visual feature for compatibility.
Not a bad choice, because I sure allot more people would be complaining "Why doesn't powerpoint 2007
work on my 6 year old laptop?!"
After Vista is out for a 'while' you might find new version of Powerpoint starting to use the new graphic
feature of the OS, and Powerpoint will be able to do visually allot more.
Stephan
www.seriousmagic.com
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com
It seems somewhat strange that 3rd party software, and MUCH CHEAPER display
software can make it work, but the giant Micro$oft talent can't figure out
how to do it and make their product more versitile!
:
This cannot be done. Movies are always on top of everything else.
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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]
|I would like to run (in the background of my slide presentation)a movie and
| have the option of overlaying text onto the slides
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