inserting a powerpoint into a movie

[Pancake]

I am making a video using a video of my family's vacation using my difital
camcorder. At the beginning of the movie I wanted to put an old looking
movie countdown (the number in the gray circle with the rotating arm), so i
made a powerpoint presentation (version XP) of it with sound effects and
everything. I want to find a way to insert this into my video, hopefully
just as another video clip.
Please help.

 

[Echo S]

Wouldn't it be easier to use one of those existing movie countdown movies
and insert that into the existing movie (assuming that you have some video
editing software)?

Interestingly enough, I needed to find one of these things just a couple of
weeks ago, so I asked some colleagues on another newsgroup. Here are a
couple of links. Beware of copyright issues if you decide to use these.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=46828
http://www.imvamp.com/download/videos/mostwanted.html (click the countdown
and then answer No, I don't have VAMP)
http://www.fotosearch.com/photodisc-film/edit-effects-2/EYW729/2/

And just as a matter of interest, this is apparently called a "universal
leader." Amazing what you can learn on the web, isn't it?

Oh, back to the PPT video thing. There's not like a button you can press to
save a PPT file as a video on the PC side. Mac PPT will do this, though. (At
least the latest versions will.) See here for some additional options:
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpoint-to-video.htm

 

[Sonia]

See http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpoint-to-dvd.htm for how to
capture to video format.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com