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Rendering to use in powerpoint
Wondering if anyone can help…..
I have a 30 second composition, consisting of a number of ae created elements, an eps file and a piece of music.
I need to create a render that will play in powerpoint for a conference opener. I’ve tried, many, many, many, many combinations of windows media file configurations.
I’ve had various problems, from text pixelating to the render missing the first 2-3 frames of the comp.
Does any have a “magic recipe” for how to create powerpoint friendly, good quality (an oxymoron perhaps!!!) files?
Any advice would be gratefully recieved.
Adam
Adam Glover
Penguins – Live events & Communication -
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For computer playback, it is adviseable (when ever possible) to start off your animation with about 2 seconds of black. If you do that, then that should take care of your missing frames at the front.
If you’re going fullscreen then set your bitrate to about 3-6Mbits. Set audio to mono if you don’t require stereo. use constant bitrate cos’ if you’re not using a dedicated compression programme, chances are that the application you’re using for the compression may not implement VBR very well and that plus a low datarate may explain the pixelated text. What datarate you should set depends largely on the type of material you have.
Your other option is to use MPEG-2 with a datarate of about 8Mbits, which is essentially up to DVD specs. Actually you may want to lower that to about 5-6mbits to cater for the extra overhead on your system due to PowerPoint’s hit on system resources.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
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If you want to try a different route, try a software presentation package called Media Shout by Media Complete. https://www.mediacomplete.com
It will handle the video and the powerpoint presentation very smoothly without trying 57 different variations. There used to be a fully functional free trial that runs for 15 sessions — I think they still do that.
We use it regularly for video, animations, sound effects, music, graphics, lyric display, DVD cues and even powerpoint –though you will find that its built in functionally is even better than powerpoint.
Mark Cain
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Render your video out to 720 x 480, or whatever the 16 x 9 eqiv is.. 30 frames per second… windows media 9 streaming… 5000 data rate… picture quality set to 100… constant bit rate (constant with a capital C).
That will give you a video that will play back OK in PPT… PPT never plays back video beautifully… never… It will almost always glitch at the start and/or drop frames along the way… It will be OK but not great.
My advice to you would be to play back the video at your conference on a second computer and have the video TD switch from the video computer back to the PPT computer. This is an easy and your video will look alot better. You can go with a software solution if you like and I am sure there are solutions that will do the job but this one will give you an excellent result every time and you are not married to a specific codec.
Just trying to make it through life without tripping over the furniture
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Thanks for all your help guys,
I got there in the end using the advise here and a little bit of perseverance!!!!
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