Document to video software

[dread]

Would like to know how you would type out or copy and paste words and make it into a movie. Or instead of typing out and copy/pasting words just turn any document into a video like a .rft file or .doc or .txt file.

[oz_surfer]

I'm not sure how much work /typing you need to do, but i solved my problem this way.

I needed a lot of typing on screen, so i created a word documnet of 4 x 3 ratio and typed the words out.

I then printed using Universal Document Converter.
http://www.print-driver.com/

This is similar to pdf, but outputs as a jpeg.

I then imported jpeg into Adobe Premiere.

hope this helps

[filmboss80]

The simplest, cheapest way is to copy your text to clipboard, then open Microsoft Paint (which comes with Windows), make a 720 X 480 image palette, then click the text button and paste your text into the frame. It think it default saves as a .bmp file.

Layout between original document and text graphic will need to be different, since paper docs are long and vertical, and the tv screen is widened horizontally. And you won't be able to see tiny fonts on screen, so you have to stick with a limited amount of text per frame.

[dread]

I tried your method filmboss80 and thought that was the way to go but for some reason when I save it as a slide show then convert it to mgeg2 you cannot see all the text on the left edge.

[filmboss80]

You've got to keep the TV safe area in mind, leaving ample margins at top, bottom, and both sides for your text. I don't know what you mean about saving as a slide show. I don't know why you would need to convert the image to mpeg2 since most DVD authoring programs will treat take the .bmp file as it is and make all the necessary conversions itself. In the authoring program, you would use the graphic like a menu, so that you can go from one text to the other using the DVD remote.

Maybe I misunderstood from the beginning. I thought you wanted text documents on DVD. Perhaps your are just talking about titles in a movie. Any video editor with a built-in titler would do that.

[dread]

No you didnt misunderstand me. What I am doing is trying to save a document and copy all the words to and put it on a dvd. What I did was what you said and since it will be several pages and several images save each image and make into a slide show so it can viewed like a movie

[oz_surfer]

When is use

Universal Document Converter.
http://www.print-driver.com/

the purpose was to print 10/12 page word documents. The software will print one jpeg per document page.

As long as you follow what filmboss80 said in regards safe area, either method should work.

[Cornucopia]

The way I'd go about it would be:

1. Make outline in MS Word. Save as RTF file.
2. Open RTF in MS PPT. Save as PPT file or as PNG sequence.
3. Use a PPT->DVD converter app (for automated use), or load PNG's into DVD authoring app (as menus, etc).

You can create a PPT design template that is video-friendly, with hide-able action + title safe guides; Rtf outline import will flow right into it.

Works great and doesn't suffer from compression loss at all.

Scott