I have to run video and display information from several different slides. I have tried using a layer and copying the information from the slide and I have tried bringing pictures in (of the content) at the appropriate time, but is all very time consuming and is very "messy" when trying to develop and test for info coming up at the right times. Any ideas, I'm just learning on the fly and I need to save some time.
I'm not sure if I understand what you are trying to do. Do you have a single video that you want to use as a background with other info in front of it? If so you can put everything on just one slide and use the timeline to have the info display at the appropriate time to sync with the video. This may mean taking any text boxes or images that appeared on your other slides and moving them all to the single slide with the video. Arrange them to appear when desired and boom! there you are. (Or maybe I really don't understand what you're trying to do...)
Thanks Brett. That is what I am doing now. I was looking for something cleaner and faster. I have about an hours worth of video that I have broken into 4 pieces. One video for each topic. But I typically have 6 to 10 PowerpPoint slides that go with each video. Add all of that can get kinda messy sometime. :(
As Brett said, what kind of video is it? Is it a background for visual eye candy or something like a scenario?
For a background you could put it on the master slide, but it will restart with each new slide.
For a scenario you could use the built in editor and cut it into sequential segments to span slides, but this would probably be easier in something like Camtasia.
I think I'd do what Bill suggest and just chop the video up into smaller sequential pieces. Still not great but should make testing and synching easier to deal with. I'm not sure if the performance might not be better using multiple smaller video clips as opposed to one larger one. Anybody know about that?
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I'm not sure if I understand what you are trying to do. Do you have a single video that you want to use as a background with other info in front of it? If so you can put everything on just one slide and use the timeline to have the info display at the appropriate time to sync with the video. This may mean taking any text boxes or images that appeared on your other slides and moving them all to the single slide with the video. Arrange them to appear when desired and boom! there you are. (Or maybe I really don't understand what you're trying to do...)
Thanks Brett. That is what I am doing now. I was looking for something cleaner and faster. I have about an hours worth of video that I have broken into 4 pieces. One video for each topic. But I typically have 6 to 10 PowerpPoint slides that go with each video. Add all of that can get kinda messy sometime. :(
As Brett said, what kind of video is it? Is it a background for visual eye candy or something like a scenario?
For a background you could put it on the master slide, but it will restart with each new slide.
For a scenario you could use the built in editor and cut it into sequential segments to span slides, but this would probably be easier in something like Camtasia.
I think I'd do what Bill suggest and just chop the video up into smaller sequential pieces. Still not great but should make testing and synching easier to deal with. I'm not sure if the performance might not be better using multiple smaller video clips as opposed to one larger one. Anybody know about that?
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