Tech Help Needed: Converting Powerpoint 2010 to video with decent sound

[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.

[mmichaels1970]

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.

That's a great idea.

[Maceman]

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.

Thanks for your advice. I initially started with Microsoft Movie Maker, but unfortunately it was very glitchy -- I couldn't even get my images to show in the preview window, and subsequently learned from online research that this is a common problem with MMM. So I bought Wondershare, but I'm finding it's text capabilities to be inadequate for my purpose.

But maybe I can fool around with your advice using Wondershare instead of MMM.

[Incorrigible]

It’s been a while since I fiddled around with PowerPoint packaging. I’m sorry I can’t be of more help.

Please ping me when you do arrive at a suitable solution. I’d like to learn from your experience.

Thanks!

[Incorrigible]

I’ll add one more thing.

The tool that I found indispensable in the past was this:

Total Recorder:
http://www.totalrecorder.com/

The VideoPro version is $53.

I was able to manipulate video and audio with very high quality results.

There’s a trial version you can try first.

[GeronL]

Can’t you do the sound separately and add it as a track? Any good or even a bad video editor allows that. Audacity is a pretty good sound editor

[Incorrigible]

Can’t you do the sound separately and add it as a track?

Yep. That's what I suggested above. I think Maceman is suffering from a "tyranny of choice". There's so many options, it's hard to get started!

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