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I am editing a live event (a 2 camera shoot). A 3 minute Powerpoint projection was shown with a music track.
Our recorded footage is useable, but I thought that I could import the original PPT file from the producers (two teenagers), for better picture quality. I managed to get Keynote to Save it as a .mov file.
However the Producers seem to have re-edited the PPT and now there is certainly no Sync with the original. The duration is much longer than the original. The image quality is however brighter and crisper than our Rushes.
Can anyone suggest any Tips on working this way with PPT. (yes, I know - no-one in their right mind would ......)
My work-around seems to be just edit as a Fit-to-Fill and hope for the best.
I am not expecting too many brilliant ideas but if there is anyone out there witha solution, I will be very grateful.
Thanks in advance
Freesh

Matt,
Thanks for your lonesome Reply. Not too many people going down this route!
I have actually managed to edit it in as a Fit-to-fill and have previewed it within the sequence. However my programme is 90 minutes long and I have had to move on. I will come back to it again to see if I can improve anything probably tomorrow - Thursday.
I cant imagine I will use this avenue too often, so I dont want to seek perfection here or waste your time. There is only a tiny budget - it is a good cause really. We do these things.
But I am alaways generally interested in building my knowledge base. I didn't find any problem in converting or importing it to FCE HD 3.5. I am running 10.4.7. I saved it as a QT Pro 7.04 .mov. I dont know too much of the technical aspects, only when something goes wrong and I have to.
I did force it to Render. But I re-edited so I haven't yet bothered with it again. I am interested to see what it looks like on a TV (I dont have a dedicated monitor at present) and on the eventual DVD which is the Delivery format.
I will post back or email you with any more info when I finish the edit if you would like?
Thanks again
Freesh

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