Common request for me: large organisation, lots of internal presentations (and, because it's a hospital, lots of presentations of people's internals...) and someone wants to put in a clip they "found" on YouTube and can't understand why they can't download it.
Once I confirm that the presentation will not be leaving our 52 walls (to minimise my exposure to
lawyers), here's how I do it:
- I use Firefox on my PC (which I managed to install while IT wasn't looking) and a YouTube clip downloader. Here's an example of one.
- Take the clip to my Mac
- On my Mac I have FCP, Perian (very important if the clip is in FLV format) and MPEG Streamclip
- Open the clip in MPEG Streamclip (which really needs a shorter name) and export it in the same format as my sequence. Since I'm a DV kind of guy, I use DV Movs.
- Bring in to FCP and work any required magic
- Export as QT ref movie
- Open that in MPS, and convert to WMV for the boz- I mean "clients" using PCs and PowerPoint.
- Confirm that their laptop isn't a Dell with a stupid graphics display bug that our IT department still hasn't fixed
- Explain a million times how to put WMVs into PPT and how to successfully move a presentation with video from one PC to another.
