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The big question everyone has and the one downfall of powerpoint seems
to be: how on earth do you put text over video in powerpoint? The
answer is: powerpoint does not support text over video. But there are a
couple of ways around it so that you can in a sense get text over video
in powerpoint. One is the fact that you can use animated gifs in
powerpoint and you can lay text over animated gifs. You must insert the
gif as an image and it will display as an animation in the background
of text. However, animated gifs are small and really cant be used as
backrounds. To fix this, you need a program that can convert video to
animated gifs. I reccomend Alchemy Mindworks' Gif construction set. The
website is: http://www.mindwork.shop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html What this
program does, is it extracts the frames from any .avi or .mov file and
displays them and allows you to change color, resize, crop your video
file and save it as a .gif format. It also allows you to compress the
file by removing unwanted frames, and reducing the color palette. This
program also allows you to create your own animated gifs out of
pictures and text. You can then open your saved animated gif from
within powerpoint and it runs without choppiness.
Another way to do text over video is through creating a video with
Windows Movie Maker (Windows XP only) and putting it into powerpoint.
I have tried a couple of other products such as Powerplugs:Video
Backgrounds, but they do not allow split screen mode, and are full of
bugs. They also are very choppy when playing back a powerpoint with
many different video elements in it at once. It also doesnt allow the
playback of other formats of video along with the motion backgrounds.
So, if you are up for it, animated gifs seem to be one of the only
reliable ways to display text over video in powerpoint that I have
found. I am hoping, eventually powerpoint will include this feature so
that you don't have to bother with all of this, but until then, this is
a good solution. Hope it helps!
to be: how on earth do you put text over video in powerpoint? The
answer is: powerpoint does not support text over video. But there are a
couple of ways around it so that you can in a sense get text over video
in powerpoint. One is the fact that you can use animated gifs in
powerpoint and you can lay text over animated gifs. You must insert the
gif as an image and it will display as an animation in the background
of text. However, animated gifs are small and really cant be used as
backrounds. To fix this, you need a program that can convert video to
animated gifs. I reccomend Alchemy Mindworks' Gif construction set. The
website is: http://www.mindwork.shop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html What this
program does, is it extracts the frames from any .avi or .mov file and
displays them and allows you to change color, resize, crop your video
file and save it as a .gif format. It also allows you to compress the
file by removing unwanted frames, and reducing the color palette. This
program also allows you to create your own animated gifs out of
pictures and text. You can then open your saved animated gif from
within powerpoint and it runs without choppiness.
Another way to do text over video is through creating a video with
Windows Movie Maker (Windows XP only) and putting it into powerpoint.
I have tried a couple of other products such as Powerplugs:Video
Backgrounds, but they do not allow split screen mode, and are full of
bugs. They also are very choppy when playing back a powerpoint with
many different video elements in it at once. It also doesnt allow the
playback of other formats of video along with the motion backgrounds.
So, if you are up for it, animated gifs seem to be one of the only
reliable ways to display text over video in powerpoint that I have
found. I am hoping, eventually powerpoint will include this feature so
that you don't have to bother with all of this, but until then, this is
a good solution. Hope it helps!