powerpoint files into vegas?

[Gary Kleiner]

You can export the powerpoint slides as jpgs, but you loose any animation, timing, etc.
Best to play the presentation and capture it with a screen capture program such as Camtasia.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Charles Avanti]

you can export all the slides as jpgs all at once, then use whatever transitions in vegas you wish.

Charlie

[Kccabby]

I too would recommend Camtasia, I recently purchased it and was able to begin using it right away. You can get a 30 day full trial version from their site. My favorite aspect is the abilty to render as an avi for import to Vegas without loss or compression.
Good Luck,
Pat

Patrick Hultman

[Peter Wright]

I was recently asked to do this, so I too used Camtasia, with the Techsmith codec, and produced a good quality avi.

Then, to “improve” on the original, I also exported each finished slide as a graphic and assembled a “tasteful” version with each slide crossfading to the next.

You guessed it – the client wanted to use the version with all their horrible cheesy Power Point transitions.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Graham Bernard]

“You guessed it – the client wanted to use the version with all their horrible cheesy Power Point transitions.”

LOL!!! – Of course this has NEVER ever happened to me. Peter you are soooo right . .

[Michael Shive]

You could also use the Open Office suite (free – openoffice.org) and export the Powerpoint file as .SWF and drop it right into Vegas.

[Mike Kujbida]

“You could also use the Open Office suite and export the Powerpoint file as .SWF and drop it right into Vegas.”

Now that I’ll have to try. Thanks for the tip Michael 🙂

[Peter Wright]

Yes, Michael, like Mike I have been pleased to investigate the Open Office realm.

I had heard of it before, but till now had not realised that it had such quality products – I am particularly pleased since MS gave me a hard time trying to install Office 2003 on a replacement computer. If I had known about this suite of programs, I would never have bought MS Office in the first place.

Thanks for the pointer.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Joseph]

I tried to export a ppt file to swf but all it takes is the background of the first slide. What about the other 211 slides? (I did a select all as well).

Joseph

[Joseph]

I got the trial version of Camtasia but I don’t see how to import or open my .ppt file into the program. Help?

Joseph

Joseph