[Tl Westgate]

What about Camtasia? That will record the PowerPoint for you natively.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

How about 3 keyframes for scale? For example:

At frame 1, keyframe 50%
At frame 20, keyframe 110%
At frame 30, keyframe 100%

Maybe easy ease the last two keyframes?

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

I digitized the old Toaster “paint” wipe and made a transition in AE that does exactly this. Old school fun!

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

As for changing the frame rate, you can use Andrew Kramer’s Frame Rate Converter, a free preset that’s super easy to use.

https://www.videocopilot.net/presets.html?id=100

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Settle down on the jerkiness. It’s too irritating. Smoother and subtler are the ways to go.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

We have one of these:

https://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php

Works great at viewing your work on a monitor, and doubles as a way to capture non-firewire sources.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Thanks for all the advice! I’ll be taking this to my boss.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Oh crap. A big use of this camera is going to be for green screening. Any other camera recommendations in that form factor, then?

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

Start brewing lots of coffee. No way but to brute force it. Of course, motion track as much as you can. But you’re pretty much screwed.

— TL

[Tl Westgate]

It’s hidden in the tutorials section under the cryptic headline of “Creating a Heart Monitor.”

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/CC_Heart_Monitor.php

— TL