Hi,

Just found this forum, what a great resource!

I have recently started making instructional videos using a combination of Sony Vegas Studio, Camtasia Studio, and MS PowerPoint.

PowerPoint is used for making graphical charts and I use all of the crude animation that it can offer.

Typically, the Powerpoint portion of the video would be showing some flow or action in some software architecture. It offers some entry/exit/emphasis animation but does not look as good as I would like it to. For example, if data was going to flow between two parts of the graphic, I want some animation that indicates that flow.

Given this situation, is there a better WinXP program I can use than PowerPoint? Ideally <=$100.

thanks,