Powerpoint in Premiere

A client gives me lots of Powerpoints (ugh, if you know what I mean- the only thing worse than sitting through a PPT... is editing a PPT).
I know you can't import PPT to Premiere, so I usually save as jpgs and edit away...
Lately, I've been getting more complex PPTs with things like animations in graphs, flying arrows, etc.
But if you save as a movie, you lose the animations and layers of text pile up on each other.
Is there any way to keep these animations intact?
PS- I'm fairly ignorant of PPT- I break them down, not build them :^)
On a Mac, CS6

I was recently googling about exporting powerpoint as movies files and there appears to be a big difference between powerpoint on a Mac and a Windows computer. It seems that transitions and animations are much more restricted on a Mac than on Windows. So if you are having problem with a PPTX file on a Mac, try exporting is on a Windows machine. Unfortunately on Windows, it outputs a WMV file - not good for a Mac.

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