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AE Examples – Architecture
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PPT can handle video, but I’m not sure what it prefers. Maybe WMV, MPEG-1 or FLV/SWF.
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Oh! So really, I could use AE to animate clips and put them into PPT, and bypass Encore completely?
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Yep — Encore is used to author DVDs. If you don’t want to author DVDs, you don’t need to use Encore.
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Cool, Steve. Thanks for your help.
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Sarah, This sounds right up my alley. I do alot of work with AfterEffects but use Director as the vehicle to display it as opposed to Powerpoint. Changes are nearly impossible at the last minute for this but can be done. I only go this route creating high end visual support that is well mapped out.
I can certainly spend hours on this discussion but i will tell you one way to spice your powerpoint up and all you need is photoshop or illustrator to do it. Export your graphics as PNG files. In powerpoint they will hold their alpha, scale nice and they can be used from presentation to presentation with different backgrounds, etc.
WMV’s play nice in ppt and easy to import. SWF and QT also play however more of a trick to import. I have seen Keynote show up on many shows lately and it handles video very well, other than that a presentation is only as good as it is designed whether in Director, PPT, Keynote, Flash or whatever else is out there.
Hope this helps.
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PowerPoint will actually handle any type of video that you have the codec for, but the regular standards like WMV or MPG1 are the easiest… we use it a lot for courtroom presentations.
On top of selling them on the power of AE (I generally just relay it as being Photoshop in motion to those that aren’t familiar with it’s powers), you may want to use Sketchup to create some of your AE base material. Even the free version allows for import of 3D (AutoCAD) files, and output videos. You could add the effects later!
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Brian-
Thanks for the info. Flash would do pretty much the same thing as Director, right? I’m more familiar w/ Flash. Do you just create buttons for interactivity or is there a PPT-type slide show thing in Director?Yep, I already use Photoshop & Illustrator for PPT presentations. Definitely much better than trying to do something nice in PPT only. Just now would like to take it to the next level.
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Sarah, Flash is the obvious choice today but i am an old Director guy with enough programming experience to be dangerous. Buttons or navigation will require learning code in either presentation, at least understanding it. Behaviors are provided, simple user friendly, drag and drop items.
Much depends on what you actually want to achieve. I can not state that enough. I use powerpoint all the time for shows and events, only speakers with big budgets, time and that are clear on the message in their speech get Director/Flash.
Been around long enough to know and avoid the visionary CEO with those tools.
While Director is cool (for me and other users) I’d shy away from it, I read somewhere Adobe does have plan to improve it but not sure why since Flash is so mainstream on the web.
Spicing up your powerpoint may be as simple as hiring someone to do your animations in flash and just supply you the file to import into ppt.
Brian
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Brian – can you point me to any examples of presentations you’ve done with AE?
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