Converting Power Point to .avi file

[Riley Mincher]

Power Point 2002 or 2003 does not allow me to convert a
presentation into an .avi file to transfer to something
like Adobe Premier. I can use my ATI capture card and
convert it with all the slides and transitions, but the
color quality seems to suffer even using an S-video
connector. It seems like Microsoft would have some way to
convert Power Point to an .avi or .mpeg file so your
presentation could be captured. Does anyone know of any
options or solutions because Power Point has great tools
for slides and translations, but lacks the power of Adobe
in creating a mix movie, still sequence, in this case a
sports video for a sports banquet. Any suggestions,
advice, capture software, that can convert Power Point to
an avi that can then be downloaded would be appreciated.

 

[Sonia]

Windows Media Encoder is free and it can capture your slide show as it
plays. Camtasia Studio by TechSmith will also do the same. Finally, there
is a helpful tutorial at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/Programs/PowerLinkPlus.exe

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Riley,

There is a tutorial on converting a powerpoint presentation to an avi video
file at
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpoint-to-video.htm

Cheers

TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free sample templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com

 

[Sonia]

That should have been
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpoint-to-dvd.htm. Sorry!

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello Riley,

Even the latest version of PowerPoint for Windows, PowerPoint 2003, does
not have the built in ability to save presentations as video files.

With the increasing use of animation and interactivity in PowerPoint
presentations since the release of PowerPoint 2002 the gap is growing
between what is possible in a PowerPoint slide show and the experience
available when viewing/playing a video file. And yet, this is a feature
that some customers still request.

Of course, there are potentially many different reasons why customers have
the desire or need to convert presentations to video files even if they
lose the full fidelity of a PowerPoint slide show and we need you help to
understand which of those are most important.

If the ability save presentations as movies, directly from within
PowerPoint, is important to you (or anyone else reading this message), or
if there are specific features of PowerPoint slide show that you would like
to see (which would eliminate the need, to you, to save presentations as
video files), don't forget to send your feedback to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)

In the meantime, a couple of free Microsoft downloads for capturing
(recording) a slide show to a video file are the Microsoft Windows Media 9
encoder or, if you are using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003, Microsoft Producer
2003 for PowerPoint (use it's capture capability during a PowerPoint slide
show).

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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[Sy]

HI

AS a Premiere and PPt user I am interested in why you want
to make an AVI from Power Point. I use Power Point to show
AVI video's but I dont understand why you want to do the
reverse?

Sy