how do i get...

[Coach Mike Wyatt]

a video from vhs or dvd to powerpoint?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hi Coach,

You will need to capture the movie to a format that can be understood by
PowerPoint. So, you will need both hardware and software. You may already
have some of the stuff, so don't panic just yet. The hardware components
are 1) a device that can play the original (DVD or VCR player for instance)
and 2) a device that can get those signals into your computer. Some
graphics cards come with the ability to capture video feeds. I like my ATI
video card which allows me to capture video from RCA composite, S-video, or
directly from cable TV, but there are many other brands and types.

The software component either records to a format that can be used or
converts the captured file to a usable format. WMV and AVI are common
formats used in PowerPoint video. Personally, I would avoid QuickTime or
any format based on a single manufacturer.

You may be able to incorporate all this is a single device. A camcorder I
borrowed from my boss allowed me to play a digital mini video tape directly
into a memory card in AVI format. Then I just moved the card from the
camcorder to my computer card reader and copied the movie file.

There are many considerations when using movies in PowerPoint, mostly
revolving around the playback reliability. Will you be distributing this
presentation? or Will it be viewed only on your machine? In order to do
this right, you should invest some time reading the multimedia tutorials
offered by a few of my fellow MVPs who are much better at multimedia than I
am.

http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm
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http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00099.htm

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[Morten Dreier]

The software component either records to a format that can be used or
converts the captured file to a usable format. WMV and AVI are common
formats used in PowerPoint video. Personally, I would avoid QuickTime or
any format based on a single manufacturer.

Wow. And WMV and AVI are _not_ formats based on a single manufacturer?
The main problem here is that the Windows PP-team use a _very_ old
home-made QuickTime 2.x-compliant API instead of using the modern,
crossplattform QuickTime 3/4/5/6/7 API. If they could get their act
together, you could use modern, high-quality QuickTime movies in
presentations instead of demending on the once brilliant, but now aging
Cinepak-codec.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Wow. And WMV and AVI are _not_ formats based on a single manufacturer?
The main problem here is that the Windows PP-team use a _very_ old
home-made QuickTime 2.x-compliant API instead of using the modern,
crossplattform QuickTime 3/4/5/6/7 API. If they could get their act
together, you could use modern, high-quality QuickTime movies in
presentations instead of demending on the once brilliant, but now aging
Cinepak-codec.

I doubt we'll ever know the details, but I've heard it suggested that Apple
won't license later versions of QT to MS.

If that's true, who are they harming? MS to some degree. Themselves and their
own users more so, it seems.