Re: PowerPoint to Vegas conversion.
by Rob
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Dec 12, 2006 at 4:56:01 pm
Hey Gang, I read a post here a while back about a program that exports PowerPoint projects to .avi I believe. I've ran a search and can't find the original post, nor remember the original author's name. Does anyone remember it and could you link me to the post or better yet the website that has the program. I believe it's name was "The Office" or something similiar. Not Office by Microsoft but someone else. It so happens I have a client who wants this kind of conversion, and if I remember correctly there is a downloadable demo. Any help greatly appreciated!!
Re: PowerPoint to Vegas conversion. by Mike Kujbida on Dec 12, 2006 at 5:45:19 pm
It's called Open Office and you don't need to worry about a demo version as it's open source software (i.e. FREE). The download is close to 100 MB. though
Re: PowerPoint to Vegas conversion. by Rob on Dec 12, 2006 at 7:16:50 pm
Thank very much Mike, U DA Man!! Got it installed now. One question is Flash the format I export to? Does Vegas import Flash? Thanks for the quick response really helped me alot.
Re: PowerPoint to Vegas conversion. by Rob on Dec 12, 2006 at 8:03:42 pm
Ok a quick update. Flash seems to be the only moving format to export to and I now know Vegas imports Flash. I'm still unable to do it though. Is there anyone out there that has actually done this, got it to work? Documents in both programs sheds no light on the subject. The strangest thing is, the Flash animation it creates has nothing to do with the PowerPoint presentation, nor are the slides created, even in the presentation. How can that be? Weird mystery to me. I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what.
Re: PowerPoint to Vegas conversion. by Mike Kujbida on Dec 13, 2006 at 2:13:02 am
Sorry Rob but, since I know nothing about Flash yet, I can't help you out.
I thought Vegas had limitations on Flash though. AFAIK, it only imports up to a certain version.
As far as Open Office, I think the poster in the original thread was looking for an app to convert PowerPoint to AVI for subsequent Vegas import.
Re: PowerPoint to Vegas conversion. by Rob on Dec 13, 2006 at 4:34:45 pm
Ok thanks Mike..............guess it's not possible then, as Open Office doesn't have the option to export to .avi Only flash, html and pdf. Hmmmm......well I'll just tell my client it can't be done, unless he wants me to re-construct the entire project in Vegas. Once again thanks for your response.
Re: PowerPoint to Vegas conversion. by DV Memories Video on Dec 13, 2006 at 6:58:13 pm
Everything can be done, one way or another.
There is an option in powerpoint (2003) to save all slides as jpg files at once, you can then import them into vegas. Fine and dandy if there is no animation in the powerpoint.
If there is animation, you can use a screen capture program such as snagit (www.snagit.com) to capture your powerpoint presentation as it plays. It will save as .avi.
Another option is to play the slideshow with powerpoint on a laptop or computer with a S-video out port, then capture to your camcorder.
OR you can download a program to convert flash to avi.
Pick your poison.
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Re: PowerPoint to Vegas conversion. by Rob on Dec 18, 2006 at 2:26:44 am
Thanks Eric, I appreciate the info and advice. But those solutions I know of and are way too time consuming for me. As luck would have it I found the perfect PowerPoint to .AVI converter called PowerVideoMaker Pro by http://www.presentersoft.com/ and the demo is downloadable. More than long enough to get this job done.
