Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Convert PPS to WMV and into FLV (flash) using Capture Screen

There are a lot of S/W to convert from PPS to AVI/WMV but with the cost here are the list that I have tried. (How to Convert PowerPoint to Flash and Convert PowerPoint to flash and you can google convert PPS into Video)

1. Debut Video Capture (NO GOOD and costly)
Plan to capture the PPS when playing into Video to edit
2. BB Flash back express 2 (aka blueberry it is free)
It is good however it is also capture the bar for stop and start because the hotkeys to start and stop won't work
3. CamVideo (http://camstudio.org/ it is free)
Installed but not tested from web it seems good
4. NCH Suite
Trial version with watermark of their logo cannot use it
5. Presentation to Video Converter
Trial version with watermark of their logo cannot use it
6. PP2Flash
Trial version with watermark of their logo cannot use it. It is good, the plugin is set on the powerpoint program
6. On line converter. A lot of online converter shareslide.net or scribd.com, it is very confusing don't know which one is good
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3876331/How-to-Embed-Your-PowerPoint-Into-Blogger Need to submit into their server and using their embedded code insert into blog. Need to register

Finally I am do my way the best and it is free. Using VLC (www.videolan.org/vlc/) and I have been used it over a year for linux and windows. It is the best of shareware.
1. Open VLC 1.0.3 there are many tutorials in the web, I am using the lastest version
Open media->Streaming->Capture Device->Capture mode->Desktop->Desired Frame set 30-> click small icon next to stream->select play mode->convert->desination file->give it a name->profile->select->Video H.264+AAC->next small icon select edit profile->Encapsulate->MP4/MOV->select video code mode ->tick video->Bitrate->set=3600 kb/s->frame->set 30 or 35 frame/s->select width and heigh->w=640 and h=480 (dependend on video card)->Select Audio tab->Audio->Mp3 or Mp3->128kb/s->channel 2->sample rate 44100 or just Keep original audio or nothing you will add audio later I will show you next. There are 2 codec Audio va Video.
Don't select Start yet wait.
Open powerpoint select the presentation File ->open->file pps
then go back VLS hit start
then go back powerpoint to hit F5 play video slide full screen

When the powerpoint is finished you will have test.mp4 format as we select the file name is test.mp4

Now edit the movie, I am using Windows Movie Maker (old name) also called Live Movie Maker (new name) download at http://download.live.com/moviemaker
(there are many software claims free or shareware but it does not correct, it is free it means free download but when you install and using it, it requires you to pay or limit its feature or their put their logo into your video (watermark).

Live movie maker is just like Picasa3 of google but Microsoft movie maker has more feature when you need to edit the movie and it is faster too.
File open -> test.mp4
Slides open then click add video->split frame -> delete unwanted frame sometimes you have to use trim feature to trim within the frame by moving up and down arrow to get each pixels. If you are using Macromedia/Adobe Flash each frame including each cell equivalents to pixels. Windows maker does not show cells but you can select up and down for start point and end point in seconds. Because you capture desktop video there are some frames are capture between the time you hit start of VLC and F5 of powerpoint to make a nice video, these frames can be removed unless you are using like a tutorial. To see recorder button VLC->View->Advanced control ->tick it
the record button will show up. The default there is no record button.
VLC screen recording
VLC somehow does not record sound you need to capture screen then record audio using audacity then merge them using windows movie maker. This technique is used to make move windows media video player WMV then upload into blogger it will auto convert into FLV format. As you see in this blog entry http://thomasalvatran.blogspot.com/2010/01/bao-nhieu.html

Using this video I am using camstudio, you can record audio and on screen capture. It seems camstudio does everything for you it is good to make tutorial.

1 comment:

Adward said...

well, you can also try PPT to video converter. It's a freeware which allows you to convert your PPS to AVI, WMV, MOV and other video files within minutes. With 3 steps of mouse clicks you can have you own powerpoint-based video.