Inserting PPT into a video

[Gary]

Does anyone know how (if poss)to insert a whole
presentation (with lots of animation etc) into a video? I
know how to insert video clips into ppt (by changing .ppt
to .avi) but we need the other way round. We have done a
normal video of a meeting (in betacam), during which we
also made a presentation (.ppt). For the final version of
the video we want to insert the presentations in between
the videoed lectures. Any help on this will be greatly
appreciated! Thanks in advance! Gary

 

[Gary Young]

I am intrigued. Why do you want to use Power Point to
produce a video?

As you appear to have high end professional video
resources at your disposal, utilise them instead of
wasting time and a gigantic quality loss in converting
video to a low resolution avi file and then back to video.

If you want to make a video, then make a video. PowerPoint
is not a video editing system.


If you have non-linear editing or a caption generater in
your video resources then use them, they will out perform
PowerPoint in visual quality, affects and animation
ability and give you what you want.
Even a budget priced domestic video system would work
better overall for you than using PowerPoint.

Please give more information if this is not what you want
to do.

Regards
Gary

 

[Gary]

The video is to be a single record of a meeting. We
recorded the lectures, questions and ansers "live" on
betacam (the video will be straightforward VHS). The ppt
presentations preceded the lectures and contain
photographic and text material which we cannot "video",
but we would like to insert into the final video as a
record of what was presented (together with the live
sessions) and we want to have it as one document, rather
than a video (VHS) and a CD with a ppt doc. Is it clearer
now? Gary

 

[Laureen Jandroep]

We do this for a yearly seminar I teach. The first few
times the videographer would take my .ppt and insert the
slides into the video using a video editing program.

He now uses a mixer right at the time of recording and
the output from my laptop and a camera on me as I'm
teaching are captured simultaneously. We have me as a
picture in picture with the .ppt as the background.

I hope this gives you some ideas.

--Laureen

 

[Gary]

That's precisely what we want to do. Only problem is:
we've already given the lectures and presentations, so we
missed the chance to link an output from the PC. Now we
are at the point of editing the video and wanted to
insert the ppt. The video people say that if I could
transform the whole presentation into .avi they might be
able to insert, but I've tried and the .ppt file gets
corrupted if I try to change the file type. Is there any
way of importing .ppt into a video programme? Thanks! Gary

 

[Echo S]

Ah, since you're not using the video editing software....

You might ask the video people if they can use images of the PPT slides
to insert into various frames of the video. If so, ask them what kind of
image they want -- JPG, PNG, TIF, etc.

Then do a File/Save As and select the image type from the dropdown box
in the "as type" are of the Save As dialog. Send the images to the video
people.

To capture as an AVI, you can't just change the file type on the PPT
file. It's not that easy, sorry. You can try capturing with
something like Camtasia http://www.techsmith.com and creating an AVI
from that.

Or you can use something like Movie Maker (freebie download for Windows
XP), create the images for the slides as I described above, and drag
those onto the Movie Maker timeline. Then save as an AVI from that.
(You'll want to double-check that MM can create an AVI, though. I know
it will do WMV, but I can't remember if it does AVI.
http://www.papajohn.org, the definitive MovieMaker site, says MM can
create DV-AVI, so that might work for your video people.)

But if you have to export as image to create that AVI, I'd think your
video people could do the same with your images right in the actual
video they're creating.

 

[Austin Myers]

Gary,

I assume you want to include all the animations, etc. instead of just images
of the finished slide. PowerPoint doesn't have a native "convert to video"
feature so you must look at alternatives. One of the easiest methods is to
do a screen capture of the running presentation with something like Windows
Media Encoder. There are other 3rd party apps but they aren't as fast nor
do they produce the same quality. Besides, Windows Media Encoder is a free
download from MS. <g>

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team