Re: PowerPoint to Avi?

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:01:33 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
<richard.7.crowley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"P.C. Ford" wrote...
>> Two questions...for a client I need to change a PowerPoint slide show
>> to avi for inclusion in a video.
>>
>> 1. How to I change to avi? I have MS Producer, but I don't understand
>> how it exports to avi?
>
>There appear to be several 3rd party sources of information and
>tutorials. Google reported several hundred likely URLs.

Ummm, as I usually do, I did check google before posting on USENET. I
saw many ways to do this but no clear up to date preference.

Producer to Camtasia to AVI?

>
>> 2. The slides are obviously made with computer presentation in mind.
>> What is your preferred way to change to dv resolution and get the
>> slide content within the safe margin for DVD presentation?
>
>If you have the resources, you can re-arrange the text on the slides
>to fit within the safe title area. Else you could reduce the frame size
>10%. I have done both for various productions.

It appears that the slides have been built with no thought given to
safe margins. It is impossible in a practical sense to rebuild the
slides. I'll have to resize the whole avi before I chop it up.

.

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