Importing Powerpoint Presentation to FCP

Hi

Never did it buy I'm prety shure you can export from Keynote as a Quicktime Movie that match your FCP sequence settings:

http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/#share

Hope that helps !


Alberto

You can export a quicktime from powerpoint, but the quality will probably be terrible. powerpoint slides are designed for a computer display, and they often have text and graphics that extend well past title safety. If I remember correctly, you need to set your screen resolution on your computer to the resolution you want your export to be and then export from powerpoint. But I remember having a lot of problems. For highest quality, you really need to recreate the graphics in photoshop for use in the correct video format.

I'll second that. As a matter of fact, I'm wrestling with this very issue.

1. Beware of the white bg. too hot.
2. Type face typically too small and too close to the edges.
3. Doofy graphics

If you're not gonna rebuild in photoshop, try to adress the issues above then save each frame out as a tiff. It's almost EXACTLY dv size. DX or cut between frames for motion.

uh, Jim. You can make a tiff any size in photoshop. If you use a DV preset it'll be exactly the right size (for DV) and you'll have guides for title and picture safety and photoshop will display the image with the correct proportions.

Message was edited by: Michael Grenadier

Just did this for a web project that needed quick turn-around.

It maybe a different approach but it worked like a charm.

1st, adjust your powerpoint to be in normal view mode and adjust to fill about 1/4 to 1/2 of your computer screen.

Use the shift-cmd-4 feature to create cross-hairs and start in the upper left of the powerpoint slide then click and drag to the lower right. unclick and you have a .png on your desktop.

Do this for each slide and bring them into FCP.

A little unorthodox yes, but it worked.

Powerpoint for MAC lets you export as a mov file or as jpegs. I was instructed to use the presentation as is on a quick turn around but I ended up reworking the fonts to something presentable. Then exported as jpegs since they did not have and animation. Came out decent enough.

AFAIK, With power-point alone, there's no easy way to get slides out of PPT. You can export as stills, but then you lose all the animation.

You can use Camtasia for windows and that'll record a PPT presentation and then exports into a usable format for FCP. The software is around $300, however you get a 30-day, no restriction trial.

As someone else mentioned, you may be able to import it into keynote. keynote allows you to export the presentation in just about any format. I just exported a pres from keynote and used it in FCP and it worked great. I just trimmed out the excess footage between animation movements and it was seamless on camera.

Also, you can export from keynote with the background as transparent. i was able then then put a motion back on the presentation to give it some "kick"

In PPT, open the pres, do a save-as, in the drop down choose jpg or png, and it'll export each slide as its own file.

Be sure to set your output format as the format you're editing with.

Verify that keyframming is set to all frames. Keynote defaults it to every 6 or something like that. FCP needs all frames.

If that still doesn't work, open the new file in MPEG Streamclip and export with your desired settings.