Hi Lars,

What exaclty do you mean by 'Transfering to Powerpoint doesn't work well'?

Are you trying to make the entire video into a Powerpoint Slideshow?
Or are you just trying to play the video inside of a Powerepoint presentation?

Mike

Hi,

I am trying to do like a Powerpoint slideshow as a presentation. Will use videoclips from my HD video camera and also photos. One can import videoclips into Powerpoint but just MPEG and I lose all the good quality of the HD when doing that.
Also the whole programme is very slow.

Any ideas? Or if there is another slideshow programme better suited for this task?

Lars

Making a PowerPoint type presentation is quite simple in PD, but, you will not be able to run it like a presentation. It will only run as a video file. In PowerPoint you can have the individual slides appear on a mouse click, then advance with each subsiquent mouse click. This will not be possible in PD.

In PD you can mix the still shots and the video any way you choose on the time line and/or PIP track(s), adjust the duration of the stills to suit your needs, add the effects/transitions, titles etc you desire. But, you are going to end up with a video that will run from start to finish.

If you need a PowerPoint presentation you will have to build it in PowerPoint and live with the quality that it produces.

Hal
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Depending on the version of PP you can use other formats for video, but you don't need to lose too much quality if you choose the right format/profile.

.wmv is often preferred as the native WMP is often used by PP as far as I know. Key issues are aspect ratio if the video has to sit in the standard PP slide and "portability" as the video files need to be kept with the PP files (depending on end use)

I have just incorporated a 20 min 720p mpg video into the middle of an induction programme, set to play full screen on a 42" HD TV with no problems. It is held on a USB stick for portability but occaisionally (depending on the PC/laptop being used) the PP video slide needs "re-setting" - it seems to lose track of where the video file lives.

Cheers
Adrian

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