I have never heard of, or seen video backgrounds for PowerPoint presentations. So, I would be very interested in hearing this answer as well.

That would be interesting to see in a presentation. Do you have any examples?


Shannon

Digital Juice - The Leader in Royalty Free Professional Animations, Stock Footage, Music, Layered Graphics, Clip Art and Templates sells looping backgrounds. Might be worth a look. I also found Animated Graphics - Animated Backgrounds - Video Backgrounds - Motion Backgrounds

The first person that I've seen use video backgrounds for
presentations is Frank Kern (or something similar)

A video background can be extremely distracting but since
I don't know what it is you want to achieve, I can't really
comment to say if your idea would work better or not.

Could you elaborate?

Asher

PowerPoint does have the abililty to embed video into slides. Running them the full size of the slide would likely create all sorts of performance problems. And as good as Camtasia is for capturing screen sessions, once you get into capturing animation, it starts to choke and gets pretty jerky. I've got a PowerPoint->Flash->Camtasia out on YouTube somewhere. If I can find it, I'll check back in with the URL. - Russ

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Hey guys thanks you all for all the idea and suggestions and james legacy- thanks for asking this question, i really nedded this for my power point presentation last week of this month, i've learn a lot.

I think "motion graphics" is the more appropriate term for animated backgrounds that will add that extra punch for your presentations, James.

Motion graphics are pretty fun to creaate if you have Adobe After Effects. You can actually come up with hundreds of cool motion graphics by merely using one static image.

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Here's what I think looks really good for this type of presentation:

Video in video slides.

I first saw them from Tim Schmidt, the guy who did Tribal Marketing, and I was doing camtasia stuff at the time. I thought it looked really nice so I decided to try it.

I've found that it's really engaging to the users.

I have a membership program that I run, and I get really good feedback about the videos, even though they're really simple to make.

Basically you just load up whatever information you want to present (Like powerpoint presentations) and camtasia will capture the video from your webcam as well, so in addition to seeing the slide the users can see you talking about the material as well.

It's super simple, but it increases the perceived value of your material - ALOT I think. Alot being my scientific measurement of the "average" user.

That all said - I will tell you how I create paid content and I think it works out really well:

1. I mind map ALL of my material
2. I do a video in video presentation of the mindmap
3. I export the mindmaps to jpg or pdf format
4. I export the mindmaps to Open Office (word would work too but I don't have it) format and it ports over just like an outline
5. I take the outline I've ported over and my microphone and use that as talking points for an audio lecture
6. Then I take the same outline and maybe use each item as a h1 or h2 for an article and write a couple of paragraphs on those

So from one effort I get multiple pieces of high value content to give to my members. They usually get:

A video or series of videos (High Def - WMV DVD ready so they can burn it if they want)
An MP3 Lecture
The Mindmaps in high resolution PDF or JPG format
The Notes
Articles

It takes minimal effort to do this stuff, and it really goes over pretty well I think.

The content can also be repurposed really easily, and used to drive traffic.

For example:

I make mindmaps on individual ideas or idea chunks, and make a video for each one (or the first 5 out of a series of 20 or 30) and submit each one of those individually to all of the video services through tubemogul

I can (but haven't really started yet) using the outline notes/articles to submit to article services.

I can submit the mp3's or parts of the mp3's to podcasting services, etc.

I can use any or all of it for content on my own mothership site.

The reason I specifically do it this way is because I have a plan to create the greatest product in my niche that's ever been made and I'm running what amounts to a 1 year launch process.

When I'm ready to start profesionally putting together the material I'll go into a studio or something similar to do it, but I'll have exhaustive notes, experience in making all of the videos already, a wide angle view of my niches material, etc.

And the best part is that my members pay me to put it together.

So that would be my suggestion. . .

Use video in video with camtasia. Export your material into other formats (as many as possible). You could even try to get specific long tail keyword slides or maps or whatever ranking for those keywords in image search.

I've created video backgrounds for my personal use that I have packaged for other creators to use. Email me if interested.

Try to use power point 2010, i didn't use it yet but i heard about a lot of new functions inside. good luck

If you want to use video backgrounds, just record your powerpoint slides with a green background, using camtasia.
Then you can import your "green screen" video into any good video editing software like Vegas, Premiere, etc... and run a chromakey effect on it, to remove the green background.

And you'll have a layer beneath that just has your looping video background.

This will render without draining your CPU.

Sebastien