I have a client that does a bunch of medical conferences. They then ask me to edit the slides together (.jpgs outputted from PowerPoint at 144dpi, then brought into FCP5).
I then output to Quicktime. The web vendor says the slides look a little fuzzy (regardless of which Quicktime 7.4.5 Pro codec I use). They are right. I have put sharpness (2 pct) on all slides, to no avail.
So, any help on how I get readable slides out of this mess?
Re: PowerPoint to FCP to Quicktime to Flash Problems by Allan White on Jul 7, 2008 at 9:53:08 pm
Consider running the PPT through Keynote. There's lots of good export options.
I just created a Flash-based project, very like your scenario (with JPG images out of Keynote). I used the Animation codec as my output (with a high keyframe interval, as there was only occasionally a new slide), and encoded to On2/VP6 (Flash 8). Files were small, and they looked good. SlideShowPro is the Flash playback environment.
Note the project referenced here was output at 320x240 to keep it small. I could have gone to 640x480 and it would have looked sharper, but it's less about data/charts.
Look at Camtasia's or some of Adobe's products for capturing demos or presentations - they do very efficient and elegant compression/conversion to Flash for web-based presentation.
Re: PowerPoint to FCP to Quicktime to Flash Problems by Zane Barker on Jul 7, 2008 at 10:54:47 pm
Like the other post said, open the PPT file in keynote.
As far as quality, that is mainly determined by your timeline settings. What easy setup did you choose? Be aware that if you used the simple DV settings that DV handles graphics VARY POORLY.
There are no "technical solutions" to your "artistic problems".
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