PowerPoint Presentation into a FCP 5 project?

[Steve Eisen]

Google search will yield your answer. Powerpoint and Final Cut Pro.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Jaso Allen]

Hi steve,

Been trying to track you down. You mentioned in another thread that you may knopw something about upcoming MBP updates/revisions.

Do you know something about this or when the next update will be coming? I’m about to buy one, but you have the down low on when to expect the new one, and what will be changing i’d love to know, even if it is just speculation.

Thanks Steve

Jason

[Nick Griffin]

Yes, but…

Keynote does a nice job of outputing to Quicktime and, while it can mimick PowerPoint, its own set of transitions and effects is so superior that you’d have to be crazy not to re-craft your presentation with the Keynote features before exporting to QT video… but…

Unless you are doing this with your own presentation (rather than someone else’s) and unless you or the person who created the show did so with a television mentality, you’re likely to run into “slides” that are WAY too complex to be readable in SD video. I see all levels of users almost always putting way, way, WAY too many words on the screen. Somewhere the old maxim of no more than 7 words to a line and 7 lines to a slide has been lost. To my way of thinking step one of taking a show from PowerPoint to video is going to be re-designing the show.

And just in case anyone is unaware of this little fact, Keynote (half of a package sold by Apple under the name iWork — the other half being a mild page make-up program called Pages) is DIRT CHEAP at just $80 for both programs. If you use and will present from a Mac there’s no reason that I can think of to ever use PowerPoint. The question I always hear when presening with Keynote is “Wow! How’d you get PowerPoint to do THAT?”

Un-related: Steve Eisen of Chicago – you aren’t the same Steve Eisen who runs a company called Ideal, are you?

[Tom Matthies]

I concure. Use Keynote, export as a quicktime movie and import into FCP. When you export, you have the ability od determining how long a given Power Point “slide” will display before changing to the next slide or the next build. Plus Keynote has nifty features for live presentation that Powerpoint lacks. I just used it this past weekend to edit PowerPoint graphics into a live training video and it worked very well.
Pretty slick and pretty cheap too!
Tom

[Steve Eisen]

I have no insider information. It is just my prediction.
If you need a laptop right now, get the 17″. That is the most bang for the buck.

As far as the towers, I would wait for the Intel.

Good luck

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Kevin Monahan]

I concur. Import into Keynote, export a QT from there.

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