Thanks,
Max Arwood
I do some Powerpoint for my employer and for church. The biggest problem
I've had with it is automated timings. For church I do slides that sync
with songs played external to the presentation (e.g. I have the powerpoint
operator start the show after the first bar or a count-in).
I can get the timings down solid at home, then take the ppt to the church PC
and the timings will run differently. Way differently, cumulative many
seconds slow or fast over the entire show. At my employer's I've rehearsed
timings on dozens of "identical" PCs using the same version of Powerpoint,
and they all run differently.
The free Powerpoint Viewer, on the other hand, has been completely
consistent in timings, from machine to machine, independent of cpu, ram,
disk, etc It may run differently than the regular powerpoint it was
developed on, but the Viewer will run it the same way every time on every
machine. The PPT Viewer, however, does not have the option to extend to
second desktop/monitor so is very hard to use for worship or even important
presentations at work.
I end up developing the powerpoint at home, then taking it to church on an
evening when the Sanctuary is not in use, and rehersing the timings with the
music over and ovre until they run the way I want them to, on the church PC.
I did trial a few programs that convert powerpoint to video, which should
make the whole timing sync thing foolproof. However, I had various troubles
with these and so never invested in one.
--
Sue Morton
I have an aerospace engineer friend, who I once told I was "trying to show
PowerPoint who is boss."
A day later he Emailed back: "PowerPoint KNOWS who's boss."
Cheers,
Lamar
Thanks again,
Max Arwood
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I think if you need perfect sync then Sony Vegas would be the way to go,
not to do the conversion, but to do the slide show from the beginning.
Steve
The music for my PPT is played from an external source as well, it is not
embedded in the PPT. Although for developing the timings, the music could
be embedded, then then remove it so the final video is silent. The actual
music during worship will probably be "live", though it could be the same
recording just not played through the PC with the PPT. If "live" there is a
click track audio that does come from the PC with the PPT.
So this is why I looked for an (inexpensive) PPT to video converter, becasue
we have so many PPT files like this already (perhaps a more expensive one
would work better than the ones I've tried!).
I've never used Vegas. I see that Vegas Movie Studio is about $75 and can
create slideshows into video. Do you know if an existing PPT be loaded in?
I couldn't find that info on Sony's site.
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Sue Morton
Steve Karl wrote:
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I suspect not.
I just tried and even with "all media types" selected it doesn't see a .ppt file.
S
Poly
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