PowerPoint to Video?

2G wrote on 11/12/2003, 3:11 PM
I just video'd a wedding that had a PowerPoint slide show. I know I can export all the slides to jpg and create a slide show in Vegas. But I lose some of the title slide animations. I know it's probably a longshot, but is there any way to export a PowerPoint presentation into AVI, MPG, or some other video format?

If not, any other suggestions, or just bite the bullet and recreate via jpg?

Thanks.

2G

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Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 11/12/2003, 3:48 PM
Could be your lucky day 2G, I had to do thi s this year, i manged to do a PIP and place the new PP over the original screen, so the picture was clearer & sharper.

I used Cam Studio to capture the screen while the PP was running.
http://www.ehelp.com/camstudio/product/screenrecording/

I think I had to add the Vegas or some coder for it work in vegas
2G wrote on 11/12/2003, 3:56 PM
Thanks a bunch. Downloaded CamStudio and getting ready to test.

But I didn't understand what you meant by the PIP statement. Can you give a little more detail?

Thanks again.

2G
johnmeyer wrote on 11/12/2003, 3:58 PM
Try these threads:

PowerPoint 1

PowerPoint 2

Jsnkc wrote on 11/12/2003, 4:36 PM
The easiest way is to get yourself a Scan Converter, run that on one computer to play the Power Point Presentation, then capture the video through Vegas on another. Another poular option if you have access to a LCD monitor it to just set up a good MinDV camera and record right off the screen, it actually works really well. We have used both these methods on a number of projects.
kevgl wrote on 11/12/2003, 4:50 PM
Just finished a job with exactly that.

S-Video out of an NVidia graphics card with the second output set to TV standard, reord into MiniDV camera, capture in Vegas, edit.

Usually find that I have to add a "reduce interlace flicker" to the graphics as people are fond of using single pixel lines in PP

Cheers
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/12/2003, 8:16 PM
Not exactly what you wanted... but I do often resort to creating jpg or png files from he slides. Although Powerpoint has a way to save Jpegs I find their inbuilt feature to be very lacking as it only creates them at one size (pretty low res I think).

So I created my own little Powerpoint Macro / Script that you are free to use.

Download here

It allows you to create Jpgs, GIF's or PNGs at any size you like.

Hope you find it useful!

-Liam
kevgl wrote on 11/12/2003, 8:22 PM
You can change the size in PP

Just go to page setup in the menu and change the paper size. Double it and PP will scale everything up accordingly.

I use that to display complex PP pages that are too detailed for video. Take the still into AE and zoom into and around the page so the details can be read.

Cheers
filmy wrote on 11/12/2003, 8:32 PM
A few ways have been mentiond but so far the best way I have found was a way I wasn't even looking for. "hmmm....??" you say. Ok - there is a plug-in for After Effects that allows you to preview out via firewire. Included is also a plug-in for photoshop that allows you to preview out. This is why I got the plug-in...however included is a spiffy little thing called "Screenwriter" and guess what it does? "Um, write to the screen?" Well yeah - sort of. It will send your screen out the firewire. So all those Power Point items - just play as normal except have the screenwriter running. Record to Mini-DV or whatever else is at the end of your firewire. Quality is great.

Oh..the name...Echo Fire.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/12/2003, 9:20 PM
Yes.. that does work...sort of... although it is not really all that intuitive to select a physical paper size to determine a specific the pixel size of the resulting image.

i prefer to use my little macro... just seems easier to me.... but whatever works.

-Liam
PH125 wrote on 11/12/2003, 9:33 PM
The next version of PP whould definately support avi output. It would make things a lot easier.

Although, I think that using VV to start with and making animations with keyframes and transitions could also work.
travel_addict wrote on 11/18/2003, 10:41 PM
I turned Macro security to low(I gues this is right) and have both yout ppt and mine open. When I go to select your macro, RUN doesn't show. I keep ending up in Visual Basic. What I'm I doing wrong.

Paul
Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/19/2003, 12:09 AM
Not sure... did you re-start powerpoint after chaning your macro security options? Is the "run" button greayed out or is it simply not there?

When you say you get into the VB editor how do you do that? What button do you press to do that.

-Liam
Techest wrote on 2/22/2005, 6:42 AM
For this purposes I'm always usnig Presentation to Video Converter. The main thing - that You don't need PowerPoint itself.
I downloaded this application from: http://www.geovid.com/presentation_to_video_converter
daryl wrote on 2/22/2005, 7:44 AM
I read these threads quickly and may have missed it if someone else mentioned this, I use "Camtasia", it is EXTREMELY easy and provides high-quality output. When you install it, you are given an option to embed a recorder in PowerPoint, then you simply click "record" from the PPT presentation and it creates a video of the presentation for you, then you decide what format to use after the capture. I've used if on several projects, most kewl, highly recommend.
logiquem wrote on 2/22/2005, 2:03 PM
I second on Camtasia suggestion . Easy to use, the codec is of very high quality, and you can directly use the files in Vegas.
richardfrost wrote on 2/23/2005, 1:42 AM
For a really low-tech solution, most graphics cards these days have TV-out. Why not simply grab this straight into your camera. How hard can that be?