PowerPoint 2004 for Mac: saving presentation as a movie - animations not showing up

[Argelius]

I've created a single-slide PowerPoint (for Mac, 2004) presentation which has an animation of "flying text" and an other graphic. I want to created a 'movie' of the file for use in an iMovie presentation.

It looks great on the screen in PowerPoint. However, when I do a "create movie", the resulting movie has the text just abruptly appear, without the cool animation.

Is there something I am not doing correctly, or is just a limitation of the "make movie" function?

Thanks!

 

[varmit]

I've created a single-slide PowerPoint (for Mac, 2004) presentation which has an animation of "flying text" and an other graphic. I want to created a 'movie' of the file for use in an iMovie presentation.

It looks great on the screen in PowerPoint. However, when I do a "create movie", the resulting movie has the text just abruptly appear, without the cool animation.

Is there something I am not doing correctly, or is just a limitation of the "make movie" function?

Thanks!

I don't believe you did anything wrong. I believe its the way that MS exports your PP to a movie, it just skips the animations. Might want to try Keynote 2. Its a part of iWorks and has a working animation when you export to movie. Its only $79, and I believe it can even has an ability to read and write PP, but there is a limit on the compatability though.

Here is the keynot movie I made to show what it can do. http://ducktapeandglue.com/test.mov

 

[homerjward]

yeah, and ppt doesn't include all the transitions either, iirc. kinda sucks...

 

[drdocument]

Keynote 2 presentation to movie

Hey, varmit, maybe you can help me.

I have a Keynote 2 presentation with sound track that I want to make into a movie, but I want the display times of each slide to conform to those I set in Keynote. It's lyrics to a song for display, with the song as sound track.

When I export to a QuickTime movie the only choice I seem to have is the display time of all slides, and it's the same (default = 5 seconds). Otherwise the exported movie is great.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch!

Another wrinkle: When I open exported movie in iMovie, text which had a 50 pixel margin on either side of frame now extends to very edge and slightly past sides of frame. This is not helpful. Ideas on this problem welcome, too. Thanks.

 

[sbrownlcsw]

Powerpoint 'movie' into imovie

I 'saved' my Powerpoint as a Movie (quicktime), then dragged and dropped it into my imovie. It played the PP as a whole long clip, switching slides every 2-3 seconds. I broke it up slide by slide ('apple t'), then in the timeline I extended the length of each slide so it would last longer. That way I could put a slide between each section of the imovie (which was a live workshop presentation that didn't show the slides in the background). Worked out pretty well.