VideoHelp Forum




+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 7 of 7
  1. Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2002
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    I need to make a VCD from a Powerpoint Presentation.

    The Presentation has an in-house video movie as part of it.

    I know nothing. Not even if it is possible. Not even what you use to burn VCD's. CD burners? or DVD burners?

    I don't even know if this is what we should be doing for the best results.
    We have made the little movie (this is a school, it is a little promotional thing about the school.. I didn't make it) and it has been put into Powerpoint.

    Now the idea is to make a VCD so's we can give copies to people who don't have computers - they can play it in their VCD's.

    Should we be making a DVD instead?

    regards... abrogard.
    Quote Quote  
  2. If you know nothing, the first thing to do is read the guides, then ask for help on areas you are having problems with or don't understand. Most people here are very willing to help, providing you have tried to help yourself first.
    Quote Quote  
  3. Craig, point me, where can one find a guide, ow to convert PP presentation into any video format. After that I will agree with Your statement.
    abrogard, any CD is burned in CD-burner and any DVD in DVD-burner. Ofc. DVD-burners burn CDs too. Except from any CD, only DVD+/-R(W)s are useable (No DVD-RAM!), if You want compatibility with stand-alone players.
    Quote Quote  
  4. Originally Posted by epo
    Craig, point me, where can one find a guide, ow to convert PP presentation into any video format. After that I will agree with Your statement.
    Abrogard referred to a movie within a powerpoint presentation, so presumably he has an AVI or MPG than can be converted. So the general guides on conversion are very relevant, the fact that the movie is in a powerpoint presentation is irrelevant.

    I was also mainly referring to this statement.

    I know nothing. Not even if it is possible. Not even what you use to burn VCD's. CD burners? or DVD burners?
    Quote Quote  
  5. Member
    Join Date
    May 2001
    Location
    Eric
    Search PM
    Here are two ways:

    Use a screen capture utility like Hypercam and record the Powerpoint presentation. Take the resulting avi file and encode to VCD or SVCD using TMPGENc.

    or

    Use "Save As" in Powerpoint and save the presentation as a series of bitmaps (bmp). Load the stills into a video editor like ULEAD VideoStudio6 and encode to VCD or SVCD.

    I have tried both of these methods and they work BUT keep in mind that text doesn't transfer well from a computer monitor to a TV screen. Your presentation needs to have big print! The Hypercam method is nice if you have a lot of screen movement that you want to preserve. The stills method is quite good but remember, if a slide builds during your presentation (bulleted points appear or pictures appear) you need to create separate slides for each item that appears.

    If you have access to making DVDs, then the extra resolution will certainly help. You still need to keep text large.
    Quote Quote  
  6. Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2002
    Location
    Australia
    Search Comp PM
    Thanks guys, for the help. Even Craig, who could have told me the answer in the time he took to tell me to pull my finger out and look elsewhere first.

    Actually I'm looking everywhere I can and reading all I can all the time. And I get two impressions:

    1. There are very few people who do this.
    2. The results are not good.

    and a third thing:

    3. Many people are talking about a SLIDE show presentation, not a 'movie embedded' presentation.

    Those three things are what made me ask: Is it worth doing? Should the school be looking at making a DVD instead?

    Why are so few people doing it? When surely everyone wants to put their own home movies and all businesses and schools want to put their in house promotion, on media disk? Or am I wrong in assuming that.

    So I much appreciate the comments so far but I still am intrigued by this if anyone has an answer. We don't HAVE to go VCD as far as I know, that's just what they seem to want.

    (This is not mine, by the way. I didn't take the movie, haven't put it on computer, didn't build the presentation, didn't embed the movie, don't have this aspiration or duty whatever it is to make a VCD. I've got more computer savvy than the rest, is all, so they look to me for answers for everything in the world, such as the nature of god, etc...)

    And.... very simple, laughably simple... despite the helpful comments from epo I still don't know about burning VCD, epo? CD burner is good enough?

    Tgpo: I'll be looking at your URLs next thing I do. Thanks. Our net access just got back up.(What makes a win2k machine - which is acting as our LAN server - switch itself off arbitrarily? Usually waiting until after the staff has gone home at night and then never staying up for longer than an hour after they've come back and restarted it. But staying up all day during the day? I'd say power supply problems but the Lan manager refuses to believe this.)

    And thankyou Eric. I've downloaded TMPGEnc and Hypercam and I'm all set to do my best for this guy when he comes to see me this weekend with his little problem.

    And thankyou, Craig.

    regards, abrogard.
    Quote Quote  



Similar Threads

Visit our sponsor! Try DVDFab and backup Blu-rays!