Searching this forum for "powerpoint" will bring up many discussions/solutions to this in the past.

I use my own utility to to convert the powerpoint slides into image sizes that I choose. You are free to download/iuse.

Powerpoint Image Exporter

I'm also working on a 5 camera shoot (34 hours of video) that I did FOR Microsoft last month. Although I am creating a MS Producer version of the presentations (as well as a version for DVD) - that format is only appropriate if you are going to be posting the results on the web. It's a pretty cluncky tool... although I have even managed to transfer the timings/markers that I created while editing the video in Vegas.

I also end up fighting with MS Producer in how IT wants to re-encode the video I give it. I found a way of replacing the video it insists on encoding with my own version and to import into that all the slide timings and other code that it needs to make the producer presentation work.

I have done this lots before. Export the Powerpoint slide to a graphic and import back into the video and do your magic. Only way I ever got it to work semi well. Time consuming to do the exports but it works.
Gary

Exporting within powerpoint gives you almost no control over frame size and format. That's why I ended up building my own little tool. It's a crude tool... but (for me anyway) works far better than the export feature.

[I also end up fighting with MS Producer in how IT wants to re-encode the video I give it. I found a way of replacing the video it insists on encoding with my own version and to import into that all the slide timings and other code that it needs to make the producer presentation work.]

hey liam, so how do you that swap out MSP generated video with something else? AND how did you [transfer the timings/markers that I created while editing the video in Vegas]. Just starting to use MSP and trying to figure how much of the clunkiness we gotta live with.

and Thank you MUCH for Powerpoint Image Exporter.

bestx3,

bt

Not sure if there is a better way... but here is what I do.

Problem
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When you publish the MS Producer project it re-encodes whatever video you give it as the source. I generally don't want it to do that - as the video I give to it is already encoded in WMV format. It does this I guess because it embeds various script commands and other things in the WMV stream to control the timing of the slides.

Solution
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The basic solution is to install the Windows Media Encoder software downloadable from Microsoft. This has a number of additional utilities that allow you to access the script commands encoded in one WMV and export / import them into others.

1) Publish the project in MS Producer and choose the lowest bit-rate (I'll eventually throw that video away anyway)
2) load that video (0MM0.wmv) into the Windows Media File Editor (installed with Windows Media Encoder)
3) Export the header information to a text file (File-Export).
4) Load YOUR wmv file into the WM File Editor
5) Import the saved header information.
6) Choose File->Save and Index
7) Either rename your WMV file to 0MM0.wmv or (what I prefer) modify the 0MM0.asx file to point to your file instead.

That's about it.

cool Liam

and so re: [transfer the timings/markers that I created while editing the video in Vegas]-

when you swap out the .wmv file via the method used above, how do you employ whatever marker or region information you imbed in it to help you sync that video to powerpoint slides/graphics in MSproducer? The raw synch tool in MSP is so clunky to work with (at least the way I'm working with it). If there were a way to allow Vegas to assist in the synching process, that would be the bees knees.

thanks Liam
- bt