Placing Video into a Complex Shape and Expanding It As It Runs

[Rebecca Renner]

I have a client that wants to place videos in the four quadrants of a
circle, start one, and have it fill up the screen as it runs, dim it
when it's done, and have images then appear over the dimmed video.
Just not sure this can be done in PPT. I am not sure how to create the
circle and have the video show up and run in just one quadrant.
either. Perhaps there is some kind of plug-in that would work for
this?

They also want a Google Earth shot to start from space, and zoom into
a country and then to a tight aerial shot of some fields. I think I
might be able to do this with the Google Earth Pro edition, but will
the file that generates work in PowerPoint? Apparently this client is
a fan of An Inconvenient Truth (which I think was done in Keynote) but
wants to use PPT, not Keynote.

Any suggestions on how to achieve these things, and any suggestions on
what software I might want to consider to create this type of higher-
end PPT would be great -thanks!

 

[Austin Myers]

PowerPoint can't do this natively. Sorry. Your best bet would be to do it
with a video editing package and then insert it in PPT.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Ute Simon]

You can't play videos in the quadrants of a circle. But you could fill the
quadrant with a screenshot of the circle. On mouseclick you animate the
video with an animation path combined with a zoom, so that it looks like it
"comes out" of the quadrant. And have it move back with exit animations.

Regarding Google Earth: I don't know which video file format it can produce.
If you can find that out, we can tell you whether it works in PowerPoint.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Enric Mañas [PowerPoint MVP]]

Rebecca,

Apparently this client is a fan of An Inconvenient Truth (which I think
was done in Keynote) but wants to use PPT, not Keynote.

You are right...
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/06/duarte_design_h.html

Any suggestions on how to achieve these things, and any suggestions on
what software I might want to consider to create this type of higher-end
PPT would be great -thanks!

Some suggestions are in the link...

;-)

Very cordialmente

Enric