Importing powerpoint

I have looked at the postings on this but have not seen anyone with my problem. I have imported a powerpoint file ok, and with a little work, managed to sort out the transitions, sizing etc with quite a good result. However when I play this in KN the slide view only fills 50% of the screen. The same applies if I export it as PPT and play it there. I cannot find any way to re-size to fit screen. Any suggestions?

first you can set your monitor setting so your monitor will have the same deffinition of yuor presentation. and you can also go to >keynote>preferences>slideshow>scale slide to fit display.

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I have a PowerPoint which needs to be converted to a Responsive Design Project. I notice that when I create a new Responsive design project, the Import PowerPoint is greyed out.
Is this normal?
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Hi-
Is there a way to import PowerPoint slide to only display in a portion of the screen? I'd like to have the PowerPoint slides on about 1/3 of the page, and maintain the content from previous pages to remain in the other 2/3 of the page. Is this possible? If so, how?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi there
I was thinking that you might accomplish it by starting off with the PowerPoint import to create the project at the smaller size. Then use the ability to resize the project and make it larger, leaving the smaller area in place and surrounding it with new blank area.
Just thinking out loud... Rick
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I have been using Captivate v1 for a couple of years without
problems. Recently I installed Norton 360 and it was a 360 degrees
turn for the worse, hijacking computer's ram etc, so I had to
uninstall it. I also run a utility that ereases all traces of
&^%$£ Norton. Well, after that I can't import my
PowerPoint slides into Captivate, the window is killed as soon as
it appears! Anyone has a clue what could it be? I've uninstalled
Captive and reinstalled it again, including the upgrade, but the
problem persists.
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Hi
If you get an answer to this please let me know because I've
got the same problem. I've imported PowerPoint that contains
hyperlinks that in conjunction with questions that if correct go to
the next slide but if wrong it reviews the relevant slide again
(played earlier in the presentation) and then automatically
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Who likes to import Powerpoint and Keynote???

Hello,
I recently got my new mac pro with final cut pro and am fairly new to the system ( I converted from Avid )
Im curious of anyone elses methods of importing powerpoint files because Im looking for the best way to do it without losing image quality.
One person had me open everything in Keynote then export it as a quicktime movie but I found not only did it look horrible but also when importing to FCP the duration seems to be 0 frames and FCP wont import that quicktime.
Im used to just exporting the files as .TIFF and then importing them but again you lose image quality so I was wondering if anyone else has any ideas.
thanks,
jeremywearsvans

I just had to bring a PPt presentation into our current show. (loads of fun).
This was my workflow...hope it works for you, or at least points you in the right direction.
NOTE - I don't have PPt on my mac, so this was all done on a PC, then sneaker-netted to the mac...
-Open PPt presentation, click on the first slide.
-Open Photoshop / New File (create parameters of choice for your graphics.
-alt/tab back to PPt
-click PPt to full screen, wait for 'play' icons to disappear at bottom left, then hit "Print Screen"
-alt/tab back to Photoshop, cntl-v to paste screen grab
-control/shift/s to save as "filename 01a" (your flavor...tiff, png, etc.)
-alt/tab back to PPt
-Hit enter to trigger next element of slide 01 (wait for icons to disappear), then hit "Print Screen"
-alt/tab to Photoshop, cntl/v to paste this next element of slide 01, save as "filename 01b"
Lather, Rinse, Repeat...changing filename convention as you work through the various PPt slides/elements.
I find that most PowerPoints are created with no regard to title/screen safe. So I often end up sizing them down from full screen and placing the slides over a moving background of some sort.
If you're doing something like that and want all the slides have the same parameters, then drop them on their own timeline, create the parameters you need (basic motion, crop, drop shadow..etc) on the first clip...then you'd:
-control/click, select 'copy'
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-control/click on any of the selected clips and select 'paste attributes'.
-check off the attributes you modified on the first clip
-create a new bin in the browser...named something like "PPT clips_modified".
-select all in the timeline, copy them and paste them into the new bin. Then you can work down the list.
There are modifications to these processes and maybe someone has a better way, but it worked for me.
Hope that helps.
Kevan
Message was edited by: Kevan D. Holdsworth

I am having trouble importing powerpoint to captivate

I am having trouble importing powerpoint to captivate.
I am using captivate 6 and powerpoint version2013.
I have saved my file three times with the right sequence, but when it converts to captivate ischanges the sequence of the slides. Not all slides have animation.

Hi there,
Can you please tell are you importing the .ppt or .pptx?
Captivate 6 is not tested with PowerPoint 2013, please check the help file link: http://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/using/microsoft-powerpoint.html
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I have Captivate 2 running under XP, with MS Office 2003.
Till two weeks ago, everything was working fine. Then I did a
Captivate project using extremely large files, and now I can't
import PowerPoint slides. When I try to import, I get a pop-up
saying "Could not open PPT file". As a workaround, I can record
PowerPoint slide shows by clicking the Print Screen button on every
slide, but this is inefficient.
I've spoken a number of times to Adobe support (level 1 and
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Flash player, making sure I'm the administrator on my machine,
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reinstalling, installing Captivate with the Repair option checked,
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meantime, I'm awaiting a callback from their Level 3 support.
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Holy cow!! Adobe has a 3rd level of support? Cool. Only
partially kidding ... I really didn't know you could access various
levels. Is the 3rd level where you get to talk to the actual
engineers? Just wondered ...
Joel, in my experience it is often helpful to go to the most
basic approach in trying to isolate a problem. For instance, you
can eliminate the PPT being the cause of the problem by creating
another to try importing.
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to change AR, or to crop the imported images.
Hope there is something of value in there for you. When you
get up to that level of help where you are talking to the President
of Adobe, could you drop my name ... every little bit helps.
Have a very nice day JoelStern!!

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Hello alasala,
I am really sorry to hear that you have been experiencing
problems with importing PowerPoint slides into Captivate. Whilst I
cannot offer you any solution, I would suggest that you submit this
a bug using the
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Any clues? I NEED these slides to look smooth, and they have always looked great until recently. Now, sometimes things work, and sometimes they don't!

I'm trying to use QuickTime videos created by
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1280 x 960. Usually, the QT file gets anti-aliased in
some manner when I import it, and all is good.
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Info window on the QT file exported from PowerPoint
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and Base. When the imported video is jaggy, the Get
Info window on the QT file exported from PowerPoint
will list only the Codecs Sprite and Base.
Any clues? I NEED these slides to look smooth, and
they have always looked great until recently. Now,
sometimes things work, and sometimes they don't!
Okay, I found the reason on my own! This may help you if you've ever wanted to import PowerPoint slides into iMovie with reasonably smooth text and graphics.
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