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PowerPoint to AE Composition
Hello All
I have a PowerPoint presentation that I made a year ago that I am trying to turn into an after effects composition(s) so that I can overlay it on a video I have of the speaker speaking to the PowerPoint.
The PowerPoint was a total of 4 slides with animations. Each animation was moved forward by the operator at the precise words that the speaker was speaking. You may have guessed by my post that the timing is critical in overlaying the AE comp over the video. I need to get the timing exactly the way people saw it at the actual event.
The problem is that there are so many elements that the timeline window is crammed. I have even nested some compositions, but still there is too much going on.
I was wondering if there are any suggestions on how to make this work.
Additionally are there any suggestions on how to work with the multiple nested compositions and making them all match the timing that I need?
Currently I am simply creating a comp that has all the right elements animating in the right order. My idea was that after I got that done I could start at the end of the section of the speakers presentation and make the animations happen at the right times. But just getting the entire animation sequence done has become a little overwhelming.
For instance I made a change to the size of an element, and now I have to redo a bunch of other elements. I have started using null objects for resizing and opacity animations, but there are still so many elements and animations that it is becoming hard to keep under control.
For instance I have a map that is broken in to 2 parts each changes color at specific times in the presentation and then both change to the same color a while after that. I have one changing in the sub comp and the other changing on the subcomp in the main comp.
There are 2 groups of circles that fade in, easy with a null, but then one set needs to match the placement of the other group and fade each individually, then later reappears and moves back to their original positions.
Basically a lot of animation.
Have a look at this video on my blog and let me know if you have any suggestions.
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9 Replies
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What about Camtasia? That will record the PowerPoint for you natively.
— TL
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Sorry… I don’t think I explained what I am trying to do… well.
I recorded the speaker speaking to the PowerPoint that I have posted as a video on my blog site. I did that as an example.
I need to get the video timed properly to match the speaker. I figured the best way to do it was to recreate the PowerPoint in after effects and then overlay that on the video of the speaker. The 2 must be in sync.
The video I posted didn’t use timings or wait for me to hit the mouse button. If I wanted to just have a video that shows the PowerPoint I could use the example on my blog. But I have to time it to the speaker’s words.
I suppose you might have understood this, but I don’t understand what camtasia will do for me other than recording actions on my screen.
Please elaborate on what you are suggesting…
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I was assuming you have the PowerPoint file the speaker used. Do you? If so, you can watch your tape of his speech and hit the space bar each time he advances the animation while recording with Camtasia. Voila! You have an instantly synced up recording of the exact same PowerPoint presentation.
— TL
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i was thinking about that after checking out camtasia. the thing is he didnt move the presentation forward, it was a person in the projection booth that did so.
now i have the script so i could just follow it and play the audio of the video to be able to follow him.
i will have to play with it, but i am also concerned about the quality of the video, and then i also wanted to some how “meld” it with the video of the speaker. not just cuts from one to the other but i was thinking of having it in front of the background behind him, and then having him walk in front of the presentation.
i guess the first step is seeing what camtasia can do.
thanks for the suggestions.
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yeah…
not impressed.
it looks like a nice program, but wow, that is so not easy to use.
and its proprietary video. and with 2 trys it didnt get the results i wanted. i will probably play with it more, but wow, that wasnt what i was expecting.
just a question, should i use the powerpoint plug in, or just manually set it up to record my screen?
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I use the PowerPoint plugin to record PowerPoint.
— TL
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You could use your existing video. All you’d need is time remapping, and a whole lot of keyframes (one for each event in the “PowerPoint”). Drag the keyframes into sync with the speaker.
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ok.
what am i doing wrong? i watched the tutorial just in case there was some trick to using camtasia. but this software is just creating crap. its like it cant keep up with the capturing of the powerpoint. all it did, on my third try with the same presentation, is repeatedly record the end of my presentation. yes i started it up at the begining…
does it have troubles with any codecs? i was just going full frame uncompressed, but then i this time i decided to try the cinepak codec when producing the video and now all i have is a video of the last slide as well as it being top half on the bottom, bottom half on top.
is camtasia reall this hard to use?
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You are definitely doing something wrong. Camtasia works great for me. You capture with their codec, then use their producer program to export as something editable. I always edit out at full screen res (not downscaled to 720×480 or 640×480) in MOV. Works like a charm.
— TL
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