Powerpoint presentation -> Crystal Clear Video?

[richpeck]

Hey Warriors,

Has anyone got any experience taking a powerpoint presentation, some audio and putting them together to make a crsytal clear DVD?

I've been screen shotting my slides (they have no animation) and have been putting them into adobe premier... with the voice over auido I have.

However, the problem comes when I export the movie - it allways seems to come out fuzzy?

Any solutions?

Rich

Josh Anderson will know the answer to this...

If he doesn't know... then an answer doesn't exist.

[Lance K]

Have you tried recording them with Camtasia?

[Steve Robertson]

Hi Rich,

Your screen shots of the PowerPoint slides might be smaller than 720 x 480 pixels. When Premiere scales them up to the video size, you get the fuzz.

The best bet would be to find a way to export your PowerPoint presentation as a full quality NTSC DV video. I use Keynote on the Mac to make PowerPoint type presentations and Keynote gives me this export option. My Mac screen recording software ScreenFlow also has this export option. Seems like PowerPoint should offer it also.

If not, you might be able to use Camtasia's PowerPoint import feature, then export from Camtasia as NTSC DV.

Steve R.
R.A.M. Video

[Jason Moffatt]

Keynote on the Leopard version of Mac. I wouldn't even waste time with anything else. It's exactly what you need. So easy, it's worth paying a few grand just for the capabilities of Keynote!

[TeamDW]

Thanksfor this, i agree.

[Scott Lundergan]

One reason why it more than likely fuzzy is because you are exporting in interlaced format. If you are taking it from Premiere using default settings, it is in interlaced format. You want to export with PROGRESSIVE format because your screen capture software captures at progressive, but then is being exported as interlaced, which will cause it to pixelate.

This is why you see Camtasia presentations and screen captures or whatever that come out grainy.

Also, how long is the presentation? When I used Premiere for 7 years and had these types of projects and the drive space, I would often export NOT as an NTSC DV format but instead High Quality Animation, H.264 (since when it came out) or Uncompressed AVI...all in Progressive.

I was making clear powerpoint DVD's back in 2000 with this strategy before I even knew what screen capture was, I used to record the presentation with a video camera set on 1/30 shutter speed to make it progressive recording or do 1/60th shutter speed on a camera and export in progressive.

Keep in mind going from interlaced to progressive doesn't effect the quality of what was the interlaced file, but going from progressive to interlace will (with screen capture, going to DVD)

If you are going directly to DVD, why not just export directly to MPEG2 DVD format, which Premiere will do. That way, you will maintain your quality and your video will not get the pixelated grainy results.

Jason is right about Keynote, you can bypass alot of clutter that I was so used to tweeking in PC

Hope that helps,

Scott

[Andy Jenkins]

Heh... Nothing to add here. Well Done Everyone!

[Mark Dulisse]

Good information....I agree with Andy.

Regarding using a MAC...

What is a MAC??? lol.