Live video window within PPT presentation

[Marks Andrews]

I'm looking for a way to display a "live video" window (ie
the speaker - via a video camera and capture card) in a
window/box on certain powerpoint slides. Idealy using
PPT2000 with the presentation running on the second
monitor. The capture unit I have in mind is an external
USB model from Hauppauge.

Any help anyone can shed on this would be very much
apprechiated...

 

[Martin Conradi]

We developed something that does just this for the RMA Sandhurst. It works
with composite video, not digi; and when we tried it a while back the USB
cards were too slow but may be now much improved.

Email me back with details and I will see if it will work for you. We're
based in London.

martin@ show case-online dot co dot uk
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Martin Conradi
www.ShowcaseSolutions.net

 

[Mike M.]

I haven't fully tested this yet Marks but it might be worth a shot. Use
Windows Media Encoder (free download) to capture and encode the video. You
need some horsepower for this for greater than 320 x 240. Start the
encoding with your capture card as the source. Insert a Windows Media
Player object on the slide you want the video display to start on and set
the custom animation/timing to stop after xx slides. Point the player
object (properties) at the encoder (http://localhost:8080). Just insert the
object on the slides you want to start displaying the video. Some caveats:
PowerPoint transitions and background picture rendering takes a lot of cpu.
I have had problems with the transitions interrupting the video.
Compressing/encoding takes a lot of cpu. You can mess with the encoding
settings to reduce the needed cpu.