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Hi all. I'm starting a project to edit footage of a speaker's keynote speech and PowerPoint presentation slides. I'll be using FCE for the edits and iDVD for the final production to DVD. I'll be working from AVI files provided for me, as well as the original PowerPoint slides.
We're planning on including crossfades to the PowerPoint slides the speaker used in his presentation. For this, I'm planning on using JPGs of each slide; these will be exported from PowerPoint.
The AVIs aren't a problem. My main concern are the PowerPoint slides and how they might appear later on DVD.
If anyone has had experience with this type of project before using FCE, I'd appreciate any special cautions/settings/lessons learned you might be willing to share before I get started.
Thanks in advance.
Mel
macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2.16 GHz, 1.0 GB RAM, 100 GB HD, Panasonic AG-DVC30

Thanks, Tom.
I suspected as much with the PowerPoints; which is why I posed the question before getting started.
I agree with the assessment about LiveType. Problem is, it would be prohibitive to re-create into LiveType all the PowerPoint slides throughout a 2-hour forum. To the speaker's credit, he doesn't use a lot of text. But, there are still a lot of slides, nonetheless...
I'll do some test runs with different formats before going full out with the project. Thinking of maybe using a third-party app to convert the PowerPoints to Flash for use with FCE. I've used that approach with good results on web-based productions. But I'll need to test it for DVD output. Anyone have any thoughts about that?
Tom, your caution about the AVIs... they're at 29.97 letterbox. What other guidance would you say about format?
Thanks again in advance.
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