power point

[Richard Harrington]

Can Open with Keynote ($29 from App Store) and export stills or movie

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Scott,
I’ve never worked with PP on FC, but I understand that FC needs some software to be able to read those files.
Natively, FC can’t do it; so I would start by installing PP.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Scott Maida]

THanks, Richard.
Is keynote a download from Apple or do I have to order it? I have a quick deadline, you see.

[Scott Maida]

When I searched for Keynote, I found iworks from the Apple Store for $79.
did I miss something?

[Chris Tompkins]

Open the PowerPoint Project first. Output stills to .png files – then import into FCP.

May have to make a stop in PhotoShop along the way to tweak.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Russ Haskell]

Actually a $19.95 download if you want to try Richard’s Keynote tip.

Russ

[Zane Barker]

[Russ Haskell] “Actually a $19.95 download if you want to try Richard’s Keynote tip.”

To clarify that you purchase it from the Mac App Store, which is only available if you have 10.6.6 installed for your OS.

**Hindsight is always 1080p**

[Mark Suszko]

Microsoft also has a free download of a player for powerpoint, called Producer, you might see if it can also export the slides.

I would export slides as targa or tif myself, rather than .png, to maximize the quality. Though .png files might be smaller.

If you get the full application, try to fix the slides there first before exporting, to save time later in photoshop, etc.

[Martin Curtis]

[Mark Suszko] “Microsoft also has a free download of a player for powerpoint, called Producer,”
An FYI for the OP, Microsoft Producer for Powerpoint is Windows only. Strangely enough, the overview for it is completely devoid of any useful information (yeah, ok, Bill, it’ll create “rich media presentations” … but what does it do?). That is very unlike Microsoft 🙂