Posted on 09/09/2014 6:19:23 AM PDT by Maceman
I am endeavoring to use PowerPoint 2010 to create a professional commercial grade quality music instruction video. My target audience consists primarily of professional classical musicians to whom sound quality will be important.
The individual slides include .jpg images and .mp4 audio clips created by Band-in-a-Box 2014. The music tracks sound great, but deteriorate somewhat in quality when I incorporate them into individual PowerPoint slides.
My big problem is that when I convert the slide show to video, the sound quality deteriorates so severely as to render the music clips all but useless (i.e. what are clearly two violas on the original .mp4 file sound like kazoos when played back on the resulting video).
Also, I am using Snagit 12 to capture and modify music notation from Band In a Box which I convert to .jpg images and include on the .ppt slides. The modifications (adding arrows and numbers and such) look great when I make them and put them on the .ppt slides, but once converted to video, the colors deteriorate (i.e. a red line becomes a red and blue line).
I have tried changing the resolution when I save the presentation to video, but that doesn't seem to help.
Does anyone know of any tools that can convert a PowerPoint 2010 presentation to video and preserve a reasonable (if not perfect) sound (and image) quality that more or less duplicates the quality of the original .mp4 music and .jpg image files?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I cannot solve this problem, I fear that my project will be in jeopardy.
Thanks, as always.
Why don’t you just take the .jpg files and the .mp3 files and edit them in a legit video editor like Sony Vegas? I don’t see the need for Powerpoint.
So wait.
You’ve created a bunch of slides with images and embedded video/audio and you want to save the entire deck as a video as if you were clicking the button to progress through the deck?
Does the audio sound good when you run the video within PowerPoint?
Thanks for your response. When I first started looking at options for producing this video, I found Sony Vegas to be more than a bit out of my price range at the moment.
I had originally thought of using Wondershare, which I purchased. I was planning to use that as my main production platform. But then, after really making a study of PowerPoint’s advance options, I made the decision to stick with PowerPoint because I found it’s text capabilities to be more useful and user-friendly. Of course, that was on the assumption that converting the PPT deck to video would yield a useful result, which hasn’t been the case (much to my disappointment).
I don’t know enough about Sony Vegas in terms of its text capabilities. I suppose if I could be convinced that it would enable me to put together frames with the right look, that the process of creating those frames would be sufficiently user-friendly, and that there is not cheaper alternative, I suppose I would bite the bullet and shell out the $$$ for Sony Vegas.
But I’m hoping for a more financially friendly solution.
Sorry. I didn’t realize you already tried using powerpoint’s built-in feature.
Well, at this point I've only created test slideshows and converted them to video. I won't start doing the actual slides until I have the process down pat.
But to answer your question, the idea is to create the slides, record my narration as I move through the slide show, and then have the whole thing saved as video. That way I can distribute the video online (YouTube, for example) and it could be viewed on all kinds of devices just like any YouTube video.
If your pc has hdmi output, you can play the presentation into a Hauppauge HD PVR connected to a second PC to capture exactly what the first PC puts out. Some of these also have rgb input. I have used mine to capture old VHS tapes and to transfer video from my direct tv dvr.
There’s a product called Wondershare PPT2DVD PRO. May be just what is needed for your project.
Double check the “Record Narration” quality setting. I suspect you may be using a low quality setting. Change it to stereo and a higher bit rate and see if that helps.
Have a look at the little brother of Vegas: Movie Studio 13 ($49.95). It's a nice way to get your feet wet with video editing. Have a look at the YouTube videos if you want to learn more about it.
Here is the link the Sony website: Movie Studio 13
And here is a view of the Movie Studio editing window. Looks just like Vegas.
I made this with Movie Maker. My bud Copa wrote and sang and produced the song.
Was a simple process just add the pics and then the Soundtrac on the audio portion. Took longer to find the pics!
Anyway feel free to share the Vid>
http://youtu.be/egtVdR_Z8LU?list=FL8cOWWynTY7KxISHeWY3wng
Yes. Movie Maker would be a good choice as well.
Good luck with that.
Are you saying that there is no way for me to achieve my stated objective?
Start over. Use Camtasia from Techsmith. I think it is free for 30 days. Get all the individual bits of video and audio prepared and ready to embed before you start the trial license.
It would appear that changes between the 2007 and 2010 version as shown in that YouTube video in post 10 are indeed interfering with what you would like to accomplish.
That’s unfortunate that the audio quality is nolonger adjustable in 2010 (or 2013).
Something you could consider is recording the audio to a separate file while going through your presentation. Save the presentation as a silent video file. Use Microsoft Movie Maker to append the audio to the presentation video.
Microsoft Movie Maker:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/movie-maker
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