You might also check out CamStudio, it's free and very good too. At least testing/using won't cost you anything.



HTH, MPH

Tips:
http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

Camstudio is good - ish . It is a screen capture s/w package. It does not convert a PP file. Somewhere here or the Cow site is a tutorial "sceen captured" in Camstudio. I've found the quality nowhere near the quality of the actual PP - Oh yes, you will need to make PP "Display" full screen THEN you will need to use Camstudio. All this takes RAM and pc power. IMHO you will end up with a "staggering" AVI version of the PP. Hmmmmmm . . .

Think on!

Grazie

Grazie,
Don't know if you were refering to the tutorial I posted, (there is a link to it near the top of this page) - this was rendered in wmv to reduce the file size, and I had to compromise on the video quality.

The watching the original avi captured by camstudio was like looking at the desktop in real time - ie perfect!.

Just tried a capture a full-screen size (1280x1024) and it works well enough, but the frame rate was quite low (7.5fps i think). 38 meg avi for approx 1min30secs capture.

Help- I captured PowerPoint with Camtasia. After rendering and burning to a DVD-R the Powerpoint slides looked lousey. Is camstudio that different? What do I do to achieve a monitor quality Powerpoint image after rendering and burning? Help please.

I don't know if Camstudio will be better for what you are doing, but it's free and a small download, so you can try it out.

You can download it HERE

PowerPoint is vector based computer graphics. it will look worse when rendered to any form of standard video. the resolution of video is simply too poor.

Camtasia or Camstudio record perfect screen recordings at any resolution, but you probably don't want to use either.

just save your slides from powerpoint at TIFFs (Save As... choose TIFF, answer yes for all slides)

then drop each image on the timeline in Vegas and stretch as needed to fill up time.

you should use PowerPoint 2000, NOT 2002/XP because the anti-aliasing quality of exported slides is vastly better in PowerPoint 2000. don't ask me why Microsoft downgraded the exporter.

you will see that the resolution is so poor in video compared to PowerPoint that you'll have to customize your slides for TV. just watch TV and try to pick up on the tricks they use to make text and graphics look nice. use drop-shadow text, large sans serif fonts like Arial Black, don't go too close to the edge of the slide (use safe frame overlays), try a nice gradient background.

hope that helps! you can still use the camtasia method but it is really not worth it when you can export the slides and drop them wherever you want on the timeline. this also gives you the advantage of being able to edit your original powerpoint and re-export the slides. your new slides will already be in place in Vegas. no extra work. so you can tweak the slides until they look great on video.

only one disadvantage. no powerpoint animation. you could record those sections separately though.

Michael:

Here's a thought. Power Point slides can be converted into jpegs. Put those into Vegas. Do your narration voice over and you're done!

You can use an LCD projector with screen to give a presentation to a large group; Make MPEG1 CD-ROMs for playback on a PC, etc.

You can always "pause" your video for discussion of a "slide". Worth a try!

Steve

Ben,

Thanks for the input,

That's basically where I am at. I allready have 2002/XP on my computer. Is there any way to tweak the anti allaising isue or inhance the TIFF's . And is a GIF almost as good because for somew reason VV won't acept my TIFFS? I resally need help here.