Posted by Richard Crowley on 09/13/05 16:16

"Kaveh" <kaveh@delete_this.river-valley.com> wrote in message
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> Richard Crowley <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote:
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>> OTOH, if you want to just preserve PPT slides and the
>> presenter's speech, there are free utilities like Microsoft
>> Producer which installs on the presentation computer and
>> grabs each slide along with the speech recording and then
>> allows you to create a program that can be played back.
>> There is even a variation that allows you to plug in a video
>> camera and capture an image of the presenter (or whatever)
>> and show both the live video and the PPT slide on the screen
>> during playback. Producer is actually quite slick and we
>> use it all the time where I work (a large multi-national hi-
>> tech company).
>
> Thanks for that tip. I have to have a platform independent solution,
> not
> Windows only, and certainly not MS only. I am a mac user, and many of
> the people at the conferences I go to use Linux.

Perhaps it depends on what you need to DO with the resulting
recordings? Maybe conversion to NTSC and recording DV
(or direct to AVI on a computer) would be sufficient? Hard
to know without the rest of the story. What happens to the
"recordings"? How/where/by whom are they used?

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