powerpoint to video

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Sorry, but with most PPt “converted-to-video” presentations you will not get what you want (crisp graphics OR the original transitions).

PPt is designed for viewing on COMPUTER screens (which usually means the creator of the PPt show FILLED every frame, edge-to-edge, with copious amounts of mice-type and/or complex graphs and other images.)

VIDEO presentations require (on average) lower-resolution, larger (less complex) text and graphics AND a blank “safe-area” around the entire frame (if viewed on a TV or monitor).

Many times, if the production’s QUALITY and readability is important, video producers go back to the source materials and actually “RECREATE” the PPt slides (and build similar effects) in a form more suitable to a VIDEO presentation.

Under most PPt situations, especially if the original PPt creator did NOT design for “video use”, there are few satisfactory short-cuts.

[Tim Langston]

Try a Scan Do, don’t know how much they run.

Tim

[Shawn Bockoven]

https://www.digitalenglish.ws/gradefive/g5_r2_1.html

Above is a beta site we are developing for schools within our county. The PowerPoint videos were recorded using a broadcast quality component scan converter. You do get what you pay for when it comes to scan converters. We have had great luck with the product located at the link below.

https://www.tvone.com/images/cs650a.jpg

Shawn Bockoven
METV EBS Station Manager

[Peter]

thanks for the replys I was scared of that. We normally rebuild the powerpoint but the client had less money for this round. Using the scan converter are you going out through your video card. And if so are you not losing image on the way out or do you have to go though each slide and resize the project or the slide?

[Mark Suszko]

I do this stuff on a weekly basis. If you have keynote, you can cut-copy-paste individual text and images from the PPT to keynote (or into any other graphics app) and go to town, assuming you have both apps.

As has been said, you can export PPT to a stack of bitmaps or jpegs, then import into FCP and use your FCP effects to re-do the original transitions, only much better of course.

Many times we just play the powerpoint out of a laptop using it’s own video out (if it has one) into a frame synchronizer then to tape or whatever…

or we most commonly hook this to a Communications Specialties Scan-Do Pro, and absolutely AWESOME scan converter with boucoup features. Can’t recommend it highly enough, and great service too. It was six grand, new, blew away the Extrons and Sony’s in a side by side contest we held… That’s a lot of money… You might be able to rent one though.

Don’t panic at the price, while it’s true you generally get the quality you pay for with scan converters, considering your source material is powerpoint, you’re not necessarily going to need a $6k converter to handle it unless it has reeellly tiny lines of tyope and bad graphs and spreadsheets in it. Oh wait, isn’t that like the typical Powerpoint we get?;-).

At that $6k price, you get things like more sohisticated anti-flicker settings, scalability in separate dimensions and multiple format outputs, plus memory settings for multiple pre-sets, so you can skp around to super-tight closeups of various segments, then back out to full-screen, like switching cameras….. that’s why it’s six large. I have one from Averkey that’s under $100, works with either mac or PC. Very simple, decent output. Might be all you need.

In a real pinch, you could always shoot it right off the laptop’s LCD screen with a camera, not elegant, but functional.

[Peter]

Wonderful, Thank you

[Bryce Whiteside]

I haven’t done this and don’t have an available PowerPoint Presentation to test this, but doesn’t KeyNote 2 in iWork import PowerPoint? It probably losses the transitions but so what if you are going to edit it in FCP. This is a $79 conversion solution and you get Pages.

Apple – iWork – Keynote – Compatibility
https://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/compatibility.html

Once imported into Keynote you render it out to a QuickTime movie–.mov–and import the movie in FCP.

Is this too simple solution?
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Peter]

that works great, but the transions come up differently.

[Jason]

I work in a mixed PC/Mac environment and use a PC screen capture prog called Camtasia from Techsmith.
It allows you to choose frame rate and codec to save the video in, and the really neat feature is that you can select whole screen, an active window, or a custom area.
Quality is crisp.