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From: grettahall on 2 Jul 2008 13:27
I have not used Director in over a year. Now, I need to take a Powerpoint
presentation and make it a movie. I remember that there was a way to convert
PPT to director, but can't remember what it is.

While I'm at it, this movie has to be HUGE (1920x1080). Is there a size limit
to exporting AVI files?

Thank you for any help you can provide.
Gretta:confused;

From: Andrew Morton on 3 Jul 2008 04:08
grettahall wrote:
> I have not used Director in over a year. Now, I need to take a
> Powerpoint presentation and make it a movie. I remember that there
> was a way to convert PPT to director, but can't remember what it is.

You can use OpenOffice.org to export a PP presentation as a .swf, which you
can then import into Director, or if that isn't suitable for you there may
be something in the results at

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=powerpoint&num=10&scoring=r&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=macromedia.director.*&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=3&as_maxm=7&as_maxy=2008&safe=off

Andrew


From: UdoGre on 3 Jul 2008 04:54
Hi Gretta,

For older versions there existed an xtra to import Powerpoint files (Version
4.0). MAybe you can dig it up and convert the ppt, but don't expect too much. I
tried it myself a few weeks ago and ended up rebuilding at least half of the
presentation myself.

HTH,

Udo

From: iMarkG4 on 4 Jul 2008 14:51
Gretta:

Do you have a Mac, or at least a friend with one? And that Mac has Keynote
(Apple's PowerPoint equivalent)?

If so, you could easily import the PPT presentation to Keynote. And then
Keynote can export it to several different formats, including a QuickTime
movie. If I recall correctly, Keynote can also easily resize the presentation
to any size you want before exporting it.

My gut reaction tells me that this would be easier than trying to get around
all the blasted "bugs" still crawling through Director 11.

Good luck!

Mark



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