Follow-up: Any way to automate splitting?

JackW wrote on 6/13/2005, 10:47 PM
Client brought me a 40 minute tape of a PowerPoint presentation. There are no transitions. The images were scanned directly into PP, so there are no jpg files, just one huge compiled PP file with 500+ pics, each on screen for 6 seconds.

Question: is there any way to split this apart automatically so I can insert transitions between each picture? Or does anyone have another alternative to going through all 500 pics and splitting manually?

Thanks in advance.

Jack
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I wound up using Liam's PowerPoint Image Exporter and recommend it highly. It took about 30 seconds to extract more than 500 pics into separate files. Neat and tidy.

Thanks, Liam, and to others for their suggestions. I'll check out the for-pay utilities too.

Jack

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 6/13/2005, 10:52 PM
There are scripts that can easily do this. John Rofrano has a free scrip on the vasst site that marks XX in time, and then a second scrip that will cut/split on the mark. There are also a couple scripts that can automate the entire proces, including transitions. All for free.
Then there is the paid stuff like Ultimate S and Edward Troxel's Excalibur.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/13/2005, 11:09 PM
While I am a big fan of the free scripts (and I've written more than a few of the ones posted on various site), since you are doing this for a client and can presumably pass through any reasonable charges that reduce the amount of time you require to produce the end result (and he perhaps ends up paying less, as a result) I would recommend that you look at one of the commercial scripts that Spot refers to. You get a lot more flexibility than the freebies.
kentwolf wrote on 6/13/2005, 11:29 PM
There was a discussion on this just the other day.

See here

There is a free program that will reportedly strip the images out of a Powerpoint presentation (Powerpoint Image Exporter) as per the thread.

Perhaps that will help.
JackW wrote on 6/14/2005, 2:56 PM
Bump