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Incorporating Power Point and/or PDF into FCP
Is it possible to incorporate either PP slides or PDF docs into FCP? Thanks.
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I don’t know how most people do it, but with Power Point at least, I access the slides within that program and export them as a series of JPEG images. From there it’s just a matter of importing them into FCP and placing them in the timeline. This is just for non-animated Power point slides, mind you. If yours are animated I’m afraid I won’t be of much help.
I suspect that .pdf slides could be done in much the same way.
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Never done this route, but I love Keynote!
Open PP presentation in Keynote
Export out of Keynote as a quicktime movie
Import into FCPLet us know how you get on.
Peter
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Yes, you can do both, export (save as) PP as a series of slides / images and save it as movie.
In PowrPoint you go to File>Save As then choose PICT or JPEG for
saving it as a series of images, or choose Power Point Movie (Quick Time movie).There is a direct path from Edit>Make Movie, I beleive it does the same thing
as going through “Save As”.Older versions of MS Office don’t support this (I think Office 2004 for Mac onwards).
Interestingly, Windows version doesn’t have this feature, or at least it’s not this simple.Mick
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Or can you do a quicktime straight out of PP?
Except that from personal experience it never seems to work right, and will lose its programmed slide transitions at some stage of the QT movie. This is with Word 2004 (prior to some recent Word updates so it may work now). This was attempted on a number of computers, so is less likely to be an issue with just one computer.
When I’ve exported out a QT file, all looks good until minutes later when the transitions seem to disappear and end up at straight cuts when imported into an FCP timeline.
It may work for you and is certainly worth trying, but you need to check all of the QT movie to ensure the PPT transitions are still working.
Bill Lee
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Ditto Keynote.
It works well for this and it’s fairly inexpensive.
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Keynote and I’ve NEVER had a QT export from PP work. And that’s the only time I’ve ever see it NOT work.
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