Powerpoint and video of presenter

Is it possible to use Flash, or any other Adobe software, to
merge a powerpoint presentation with video/audio of the speaker who
used the ppt presentation? What I'm looking for is a way to present
both online (streaming) and on DVD, a window where the viewer can
see (and hear) the presenter (speaker) next to a window where the
ppt slides change automatically (synchronized).
I've some accross another software, the Softv Presenter (
http://www.softv.net/Public/presenter4.asp),
which can do what I'm looking for. However, since I already have
Adobe's CS3 Web, Design and Production Premium suites, I was hoping
that I could use what I already have to accomplish my task.
Tor-Eddie

kglad,
thanks for your reply. Sounds like this may work, but being a Flash novice, would you be able to direct me to some "how to" documents and/or online video of how I can do this, especially the "load it and your flv into a master swf"?

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What to use to create a picture and video slideshow/presentation?

I was curious as to what someone would use in order to create a picture and video presentation/slideshow?
I think that iPhoto does a good job with getting all your pictures in order, and then using the templates and choosing your music to create a slideshow. However, if one wanted to include some video and narration into the slideshow, I imagine that they would need to use iMovie as well.
I know that you can drop images into iMovie as well, and I think they are automatically given Ken Burns effect, but if you have a lot of images, I think it gets pretty tedious working with all those photos, when iPhoto will already do all of that for you.
So, long story short. I would like to make a presentation with video and images. I would like to use multiple songs, and possible trim the amount of each particular song down, so there is some sort of mix/flow from one song to the other. I would also like to be able to record a narration and include it in the slideshow. I know that iMovie does a lot of that...I saw the narration feature, and the ability to trim the songs back some, and include more than one song. It also has the ability to choose only the portion of video that I want. So would you pre-create the photo portion of your slideshow in iPhoto, convert it to a movie, and dump it into iMovie? That seems clunky.
What process would you use? In my mind, I picture using a program that had some sort of timeline in order to be able to fine tune the audio and video, and iMovie has a timeline of sorts.
Currently running iLife '09.
Ian

Ian
I've been working for the last three weeks on a project like the one you describe. It turns out to be far beyond my limited competence, but I'm committed and have to trudge on.
Mine may be a little different from yours in that it has the equivalent of 106 "slides." There are twenty video. The "stills" are either text I've made in Word and saved to iPhoto as a pdf doc or photos. I've engaged actors to read the text that goes with most of still-slides. I thought I could create individual slides with the sound 'attached,' string them together and then make a movie out of the Power Point or Keynote slide show.
Nothing has worked so far.
iMovie has been a special heartbreaker. I've had at least a half-dozen chats with Apple Care and a couple of trips to an Apple Store to solve one challenge after another.
I can help with Ken Burns. Tedious is not a strong enough word, and the 'help' menu is not helpful, because it is Wrong., The controls are NOT the least bit intuitive. In fact, they make no sense - at least to me.
[I gave up on iMovie the first time because of Ken and the absence of intelligible instructions to make him leave.]
(1) Not finding the control. "Help" says to click on the crop icon on the tool bar (between mic and i) or to type "C". All I get is the crop function - Ken is nowhere to be seen.
(2) Finding it. The crop icon that should have been designated is accessible when you select a still photo. The hand icon appears; on the left side there is column of three icons. On top is Crop; the middle is the duration for the still - the default default is "4 s" // the bottom icon is the gear. Click the gear; there are four rows of choices; click the one at the bottom "cropping, Ken Burns & Rotation". At the top left corner there are three boxes "fit | crop | Ken Burns"// select "Fit" and Ken Burns is turned off. Why is "fit" is the opposite of "Ken Burns"? I don't know.
Here's a warning and a sad tale. I spent about three days getting the first 64 still/videos/transitions and audio clips assembled the way I wanted them.The audio for 65 went in okay and it looked okay, but nothing would make it play. 66 was okay but not 67 or any subsequent attempt - although the videos after 67 were okay.
During my final Apple Care conversation the diagnosis was: "corruption." Start over again with a new project!
I could select, copy and paste the visuals in those three moves, but the audios had to go over one at a time. Since you can't have two projects going at the same time, I'd have to copy one audio clip from the old project, select the new project and wait for it to come up, make the paste, and then wait for the old project to come up.
So watch out. I gave up on iMovie because the recreation of a new project would be so agonizing and with such a big project, I don't know how to avoid "corruption" for sure, and neither did the guy at Applecare. I switched to iPhoto, but after a day I realize that it's audio capability requires a process as tedious as trying to redo the iMovie.
Final Cut Pro is probably the right program but that's a whole other thing.
bhb

Powerpoints and converting for video

HI
Can powerpoints (from PC) be converted to use for a DVD video? If so, do the powerpoints still have functionality to choose pages and show photos with transitions that is in the PP presentation?
The reason I'm asking is that a client wants to know if this is possible so that their whole presentation, Powerpoint and videos can be put on one disc.
We don't want to embed the videos into the powerpoint as they will loose too much quality I think.
If anyone has any thoughts on the best way to do this I'd love to hear from you.
Is a DVD-ROM another option? Would this still show good quality videos?
Thanks, Margie

Can powerpoints (from PC) be converted to use for a DVD video?
Yes, but they most often look like crud.
If so, do the powerpoints still have functionality to choose pages and show photos with transitions that is in the PP presentation?
No.
If the client wants to have people see his powerpoint presentation in all it's flying font glory, convert it to a stand alone powerpoint presentation format and simply copy it to a dataDVD. Anyone who wants to play it simply copies it to a hard drive and plays away.
Otherwise, be prepared for a long slog that will leave everyone unhappy.
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Can powerpoints (from PC) be converted to use in DVDSP for video? If so, do the powerpoints still have functionality to choose pages and show photos with transitions?
The reason I'm asking is that a client wants to know if this is possible so that their whole presentation, Powerpoint and videos can be put on one disc.
We don't want to embed the videos into the powerpoint as they will loose too much quality I think.
If anyone has any thoughts on the best way to do this I'd love to hear from you.
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No, stand alone DVD players have no ability to run Powerpoint or anything other than the DVD. This is the lowest common denominator. Computers with DVD drives will only emulate a stand alone player (again back to the lowest common denominator.)
The best solution is export out all of the slides as PNG files, which can then be used to create a slideshow in DVD SP. You will loose any sort of animation or transition that you built in PowerPoint. Also be aware that most PowerPoint slideshows are not designed to be video safe… so on a regular 4:3 TV the edges will be cropped, and on a 16:9 TV you will get black bars on the left and right.
A DVD-ROM is just a storage medium, like a CD-ROM or a floppy disc. You can put anything you want on it, but it will not play as a DVD video disc. You will have to embed your videos into the PowerPoint show.

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Adobe Presenter - audio and video

Could someone please tell me the difference between adding
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and adding audio and video using the Presenter tab?
Also, I'm looking for a list of things that won't work when
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Check out the documentation on Presenter -- there are some
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determined.
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I want to identify the file names of all the images and videos in my Keynote presentation so that I can re-assemble the presentation in Final Cut Pro . . . I thought that just using Inspector might give me the file names, but it only shows me what the image or video looks like, but not the file names.
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i used my i pad for the first time to take pictures and videos. Do I download it on my I mac before using it as a power point presentation? I also want to separate my pictures and my videos? This also the first time that I'm using the apple support communities.

You can import the videos and photos using iPhoto or Image Capture on your Mac.
Connect the iPad to the Mac with the cable and launch either of those two applications on the Mac. Your iPad should appear as a device in the left side of the app. Click on the iPad name and then you should have access to all of the photos and Vidoes in the camer roll and you can import them onto the Mac.
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This is partly a Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements (both version 7) question, so hopefully not posting to the wrong group (there doesn't seem to be a Premiere Elements forum anyway)!
I am currently putting together a video/slideshow presentation, initially for display directly from a computer (to data projector) and then ultimately to end up on a DVD. The presentation consists of digital and scanned photographs (prints and transparencies) and video clips. I successfully put together a slideshow of all the stills with Photoshop Elements, inlcuding music etc. I then output the slideshow to Premiere Elements, so that I could merge it with my already edited video clips.
The output process works smoothly enough, but as soon as I run the completed presentation, the quality of the imported slideshow is nothing short of woeful! Each image is badly pixellated and all the transition effects are mangled - in short, it is unwatchable. As it turns out, simply adding a single, still image to Premiere Elements results in a very poor final image. Drop the exact same video clips and still images into Windows Movie Maker and the quality is spot on (as is playing the slideshow after outputting it as a WMV file and playing via any player capable of playing WMVs).
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I'm hoping that someone may be able to point out something that I may have missed, or offer some tips and tricks.
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There is a separate forum for Premiere Elements at
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premiere_elements
Also, my favorite place for Premiere Elements questions (including slideshows) is a site started by some Adobe Premiere Elements forum regulars at http://muvipix.com/phpBB3/index.php Forum signup is free. There are multiple subforums at that site and because most of your questions are Premiere elements, I suggest that you post under the "PE version 7" subforum.
Wherever you decide to post, I suggest that you include in your post my comments and the answers to the questions that I asked here.
1 -- It has FAQs over to the right of the thread listing on the Adobe Premiere Elements forum. One of those FAQs that is relevant to your current workflow is
What resolution should my photos be in Premiere Elements?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/431851?tstart=0
2 -- Also, I suspect that you used Pan and/or Zoom on some of your photos when creating the Slide Show withinn Photoshop Elements.
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3- There are also other considerations such as
-- which Project Setting you are using in Premiere Elements?
-- what dimensions are you using when you export from Premiere Elements to the WMV file?
-- what is the resolution for the projector on which this video will initially be displayed?
4 -- I do agree with your approach of adding the video in Premiere Elements.
5 -- The mangled transitions needs more detailed info in order to discuss.
Tthe timing of transitions is definitely different between the Photoshop Elements slideshow editor playback and the Premiere Elements output: this gives some people serious problems and for others it is not significant. I don't know yet if that is your problem.

Can I mimic a 'slide show' of stills and videos with this technique

I want to be able to mimic an old fashioned slide show on a Blu-ray disk, except that each 'slide' – I'll call them items – could be a true still, or a still with pan/zoom, or even a short video. Whatever a particular item is, I want to click a button and the show advances to the next item. If the next item is a video, the video pauses on the last frame when it is finished.
Just like the old magazine full of slides, imagine a folder full of items – some may be stills, some videos. After importing into Encore, setting up the navigation and menus, and then burning to Blu-ray, I want to be able to play them in sequence at the press of the Enter button.
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The buttons on a menu are the primary navigation tool for the viewer. They control how the viewer steps through the project. Each button in a menu must lead to another menu, a timeline, a chapter, a playlist, a chapter playlist, or a slide show.
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A slide show of stills using buttons only
So I thought: to generate my old-fashioned slide show (ignore videos for the moment), I would use the buttons themselves as the stills, taking my queue from the quote above: "Each button in a menu must lead to another menu…". My slide show would consist of jumping from one menu to the next. This leads to my first question:
Q1: Is it possible for a menu to have a full-screen button, call it the Image Button, that is actually the still image that is desired to be shown? So the viewer sees the Image Button, thinks it's the image (which it is), but it is actually a button. When the viewer presses Enter, the button activates and goes to the next menu which also happens to be the next full-screen image. The viewer is jumping from Image Button to Image Button, with the buttons filling the screen and being the actual images.
A slide show including videos
To include a video in the slide show, the destination when Enter is pressed would be a timeline with the appropriate video. At the end of this video, the navigation would lead to a menu which has an Image Button of the last frame of the video. The effect is that the video is paused on the last frame, waiting for the user to hit Enter to advance to the next item (still or video).
If there is an easier way to mimic a slide show of stills and videos, please let me know.

Stan – I posted 3 years ago in the Keynote Forums (I'm on Mac) about this sort of thing, knowing that eventually I would want to do it. The answer came back then that Keynote might have problems. So I've recently posted again about Keynote, but no responses as yet.
I expected problems with Encore and welcome some of them. Overcoming problems is the best way to become intimately involved with software.
I'm glad you asked why I don't just use Powerpoint (or Keynote in my case). Now's my chance to clarify my thoughts:
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I don't have a laptop so I'd have to buy one. I'd rather spend the money on a dedicated player if that route turns out to be suitable.
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There appears to be no forum for the Lync 2013 client yet, so I am posting this in the Lync 2013 server forum.
Environment: Lync 2013 Server and Lync 2013 32-bit client. Only one Lync pool. Conference call was scheduled using "Lync Meeting" in Outlook about a week before the call. Call recorded on a laptop that was plugged into our LAN with an Ethernet
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thanks for your reply. Sounds like this may work, but being a Flash novice, would you be able to direct me to some "how to" documents and/or online video of how I can do this, especially the "load it and your flv into a master swf"?

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