Jeff Hanley
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Thank you very much for the thoughtful and immediate response to my question. Once again, the CC community proves itself to be of great value.
I really appreciate it.
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First, thanks for all the info. I’m not sure I’ve figured out a solution from all the variables you’ve mentioned, but at least I know now that it’s a fairly complicated question.
We resize the slides before putting them into the project, and we’ve tried various ways of doing that. They resize without much visible distortion, but that may be aggravated when Premiere gets a hold of them. We’ve also tried pillar boxing the slides when they’re in the timeline by leaving them strictly 4:3 square pixels but that doesn’t seem to make much difference.
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The Camtasia PPT plug-in might do it. At least one would end up with .avi video that could be chopped up and extended over the appropriate duration for the slide content.
Any other options for exporting the images, or is PowerPoint the problem?
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Vince’s latest post is very revealing. That’s exactly the issue I’m having…and neither looks acceptable to me. Take it one more step by encoding the slides and video into an encoded output video at 300k and you’ve got mush. Our standard font is arial and that’s the one that looks so bad.
Have any experience with one of those PPT exporter to video apps? I’m wodering if that’s a solution. I don’t know what else to try. My SMEs are PowerPoint guys. They don’t know anything else. Any chance Keynote exports any better?
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Finally, after trying every possible search I could think of, I found this link…
https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/www/pro_hdv/fcp_plugin/
I downloaded the plugin, tested it with the HVR-DR60, and successfully transferred HDV from the drive (using Log and Transfer)and dropped it into the FCP timeline.
Hope this helps everyone who has been waiting. Doesn’t seem like it should have this hard to find.
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A note today from a friend on the FCP team at Apple…
“FCP 6.0.2 is prepared for handling the plugin, but Sony has not
released it yet (it’s under development). Unfortunately, I don’t know
when they will do so, so just keep an eye out for it.”