Posted by P.C. Ford on 01/10/70 11:45

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:19:51 GMT, "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]"
<neil@nospam.com> wrote:

>On 7 Apr 2006 11:32:59 -0700, "nobody special" <msu1049321@aol.com>
>wrote:
>
>>You might also want to download the free Powerpoint Producer from
>>Microsoft's website, which will automatically render the ppt out into
>>an .AVI file for editing as video.
>
>
>Off the top of my head (i.e without checking) I'm pretty sure it only
>renders out to WMV format, not AVI. So it would be compressed and
>decompression might be video-editor dependent (and lossy).

I think you are correct. I was surprised when I saw the assertion that
it transcodes to avi. Almost sure it does not.

Recently had to convert PowerPoint to avi. Camtasia was much, much
better than the scan converter we used. Was a Sony something.

Scan converter's colors were muddy and text was blurry. Camtasia's
text was fairly clear, though the creator used font size that was
really too small. (18pt.) Though Camtasia is expensive, $300, I had
good luck with it.

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