Powerpoint Export for PPro?

[Vince Becquiot]

I guess I’ll give away some of my workflow 🙂

If it contains movie files, or very custom animations I would recommend a solid screen recorder such as Camtasia, there are other simpler ones or even free ones out there, but that’s the only that has given me descent frame rates.

If you only have transitions and step animation, then I would go the screen capture way, don’t even try to save the slides as images, that doesn’t work with animations and step by step bullets.

For screen capture I would recommend Screen print32. You’ll have 100 slides saved and ready in a couple of minutes.

After that, you’ll probably have to familiarize yourself, if you haven’t yet, with Photoshop Batch process. It will resize all the slides for you in an instant as well as adding a background to your overscan area. You will save yourself a lot of time by not having to rescale, add mattes, etc. in Premiere.

Hope that helps…

Vince

[Chris Dolan]

Thanks for the response!

I was actually looking for a way to take the entire slideshow and export it as a video file. I wanted to avoid the Photoshop step alltogether.

I know there’s a way to do it because I have a .ppt file and an .mpg of an earlier version of the .ppt presentation from the client. What I was given was an older .mpg file before the final .ppt presentation was completed. I don’t think they realized the .mpg is not the final version. Rather than ask them to send another .mpg of the final version, I figured I would just do it myself if it’s easy enough.

My research this morning found this: https://www.bytescout.com/how_to_convert_powerpoint_to_video.html
I haven’t run the exe file yet, but something tells me it is a limited-function version. I’m guessing I’ll have to purchase the full version to be able to export a ppt presentation as full-res 720×480 at 30fps.

I think this is the way I’ll go, since I don’t really have the time to mess with photoshop to re-create the timing/transitions of the slides and synch it with the music. I want to be able to just drop an .mpg or .avi file right into the timeline.

Thanks again for your help!

[Vince Becquiot]

Got it… But just a couple of things. Make sure use the try out version first and check that the frame rate you are getting is actually 30, and not between 5 and 10 😉

An other thing I noticed, and for those of us who work with corporate slides, by using those Power Point to video converters, the clarity of the presentation, which is already usually in small fonts since it is for projection, is heavily diminished by the compression they use to keep up with the frame rate. And finally you usually end up having to scale it down further in Premier since people almost never build presentations with safe margins in mind. I would end up with a presentation that would not be at all readable on a TV screen.

I know this is absolutely 10 times faster, and hopefully what your client expects, but sometimes you just have to take the longer way 😉

Cheers,

Vince

[David Doty]

Howdy all,
I’ve run into this situation with some client Powerpoint shows that they wanted included in a video I was producing for them. I tried almost all the different software conversion packages – but they all looked pretty bad. My solution – use a scan converter – record from the scan converters y/c output to miniDV tape – firewire it into your edit system. Takes a bit of time -and yup – you go down one generation – but the results are excellent !

[Carmen Arnoso]

Before entering the forum, I tried the use of vince and do not know why it did not work. The characters on the bottom of the client were blurred.
Using camtasia and exporting as video com several different codecs or uncompressed did not work. Video was shaking even after use of filters and the characters even more blurred.
Each attempt I vary the frame rates, Using 15 to 29,97;
Camstasia studio characters are perfect, But you can only make it even. When imported Premiere is a waste.

Someone has an urgent solution?????

[Carmen Arnoso]

Before entering the forum, I tried the use of vince and do not know why it did not work. The characters on the bottom of the client were blurred.
Using camtasia and exporting as video com several different codecs or uncompressed did not work. Video was shaking even after use of filters and the characters even more blurred.
Each attempt I vary the frame rates, Using 15 to 29,97;
Camstasia studio characters are perfect, But you can only make it even. When imported Premiere is a waste.

Someone has an urgent solution?????