I've thought of this often. You are intent on "conversion" - yes? You want only the slides - yes? I know you don't mean the functionality of PowerPoint - but just the finished slides - yes? Well - I mean this with great respect to what ever quality you may wish to achieve, but would you consider pointing your cammy at a very high quality pc screen and "filming" the actual screen? Of course it is dependant on the final quality etc etc - but would this cut it for you? Would your audience know any different? Sometimes an "easy" solution is just that. Also you could get busy with VV's colour and contrast and tint corrections too, to get nearer the final "look". I've heard of companies that can convert PP to avi. They may use s/w to do the job. This means that there would be a s/w solution OR they do what I've suggested - I don't know.

The long route would be to re-create enire PP project using the functionality of VV - if you have all the "objects" and elements - yes? I've tackled this problem before - done web searches - searching for PP to AVI conversion s/w.

I previously settled for Digital Workshop's Opus Pro. IMHO It can be highly complex, BUT is truly function rich - it is way way beyond PP. It has the ability to employ programmbale "Functions" and make very flexible and user-interactive displays - yes? BUT it is also cute enough to make very quick simple presentations employing simple methods. It can import mpeg, wav etc etc. It has a really cool object vector path option to allow objects to following a user "drawn" vector path. It also has a fully adjustable "Timeline-like" project adjustment. Similar to a simple multi-track NLE editor.

Apologies if I've insulted you on thinking that pointing the cammy at the pc screen would be a solution - been there done that - give it a whorl. Dependent on end results, if it works, it works.- Nothing to loose - much to gain!

So, Tom, waddya fink?

Grazie