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Importing Power Point into FCP
I’m on a Power Mac G5. My clients give me PC Power Point pages to include in corporate videos I shoot and edit for them. I bought Microsoft Office for Mac and can now play the PC power point on my desktop. When I make movies or quick time in the power point, it does not import properly into FCP. I can only import them as a tif still. How do I import it so the animation works or so I can just grab their text and use it over the video? I just upgraded to FCP Studio 2. Any help is appreciated.
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When you make a movie from a .pp file, I don’t know really what codec is used. If you got problems to bring it to FC, try to re-export as DV or with the codec you will get in FC.
However I do not know the quality of the movie. Sometimes I’ve stracted pictures from .pps with Filejuicer, and the quality is quite low because they got very small size. Inside PP they look OK, but when you extract them they are barelly 25 to 30K.
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There’s two ways to do this, and it depends on the way the PowerPoint presentation was originally created.
Keynote can open and export a .ppt. However, if there is embedded audio or video, or if they used the “fancy’ transitions, it won’t translate well.
I usually try that first, it usually doesn’t work, and then I end up running the .ppt to tape and capturing instead.
debe
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oh, and then there’s the third way…
Sometimes the person creating the .ppt doesn’t know anything about video, or doesn’t know it’s destined for video, and doesn’t conform to video standards.
The fonts are too small, the lines are too thin, and the aspect ratio is all wrong in those cases.
Then I recreate the .ppt in text and graphics, either in Photoshop or in LiveType and use my own files instead
debe.
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I left town and just got back & found your excellent suggestions. Thank you – I will try them all!
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