PowerPoint`s Flash Point
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PowerPoint`s Flash Point
PowerPoint’s Flash Point Using Flash Technology with PowerPoint PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Purpose Add a Vector SWF or Flash Video file to your presentation Acquire Flash video content Create Text Animation Explore Third Party utilities for importing Flash Export your content as a Flash file PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Richard Harrington, PMP Pixel • RHED (www.rhedpixel.com) • • • • Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Adobe Certified Expert & Trainer Apple Certified Trainer Project Management Professional Teach courses on digital media production and web content Author of Several Books PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 About You Have imported SWF files? Have imported FLV files? Have published a presentation to the web? PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Flash Tools PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Understanding Flash There are two types of Flash files SWF Files –Pronounced SWIFF –Shockwave Format –Vector-based Flash Video –.flv –.f4v PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Shyam’s ToolBox Shyam's ToolBox is an add-in set of procedures For Microsoft PowerPoint 2003/XP/2000 Includes an option to insert SWF movies Costs $50 http://snipurl.com/toolbox The Insert > Flash Movie procedure is extensive PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 FlashBack Add-in Add-in to rewind Flash movies in PowerPoint Download file http://skp.mvps.org/flashback.htm Open the Presentation containing Flash Movies Select Tools > FlashBack > Initialize FlashBack Select the appropriate options Launch the show FlashBack will automatically rewind all Flash movies during the slide show PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Swiff Point Player Add-in Free add-in from GlobFX Technologies For Microsoft PowerPoint 2003/XP/2000 http://www.globfx.com/downloads/swfpoint Adds an Insert > Flash Movie option Does not use Macromedia’s Shockwave Flash ActiveX control Uses its own proprietary Flash Player available as a free download from their site PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Adding a SWF File PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Enable Flash Technology There are several preferences you must modify You may need to adjust your security settings to allow Active X to run View the PowerPoint help file and enter the text “Enable ActiveX” Make sure that the Shockwave Flash plug-in has been loaded on your system Also install the latest version of Flash Player on your system PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Enable the Developer’s Tab The Developer’s tab contains several advanced elements that let you customize a presentation Most of these are for developers, those who use PowerPoint as a programming environment Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options button Next, click Popular, and then under Top options for working with PowerPoint, select the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon check box To apply the change, click OK PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Enable the Developer’s Tab On the Developer tab, go to the Controls group Click More Controls In the new dialog box, select Shockwave Flash Object from the list of controls and click OK Draw on the slide to insert the control A white box with an X should now be on the slide PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Locate the Flash Movie Unfortunately, the Flash control does not have a browse function to locate the movie You have to know the actual file path –This is a long string of text such as C:\Documents and Settings\RHED Pixel\Desktop\Chapter 4 \Sources\Video\Flash_Title.swf –Be sure to figure out the location of your file –If you right-click on a file, you can view its properties –One of those properties is location; you can highlight it and copy the text to your clipboard –This contains the full path (minus the filename) PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Modify the Control Container Right-click the Shockwave Flash Object on the slide and choose Properties On the Alphabetic tab, click the Movie property In the value column (the blank cell next to Movie), type or paste the full drive path, including the file name or URL to the Flash file that you want to play You can set options such as looping and autoplay by modifying settings in the Properties dialog box PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Adding YouTube Videos PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 YouTube Videos Uses same method as adding a SWF file Locate a YouTube URL like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=RysNrUP5MqA Modify the web link to something like this: http://www.youtube.com/v/RysNrUP5MqA to create a direct link to just the media file Click once to start the clip Click the screen again to visit the YouTube page PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 PowerPoint to Flash Conversion PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Why Convert to Flash Rich web experience Integration into existing website Creation of E-learning materials Screensavers Small file size and rapid playback No need for PowerPoint for playback Secure file format PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 PowerPoint to Flash Conversion iSpring Pro PowerCONVERTER FlashPoint SwiSH Presenter Adobe Presenter OpenOffice AuthorPoint Wildform Flair FlashSpring Wondershare PPT2Flash iMedia Convert PointeCast PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Articulate Presenter iSpring PowerPoint to Flash Converter PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Conversion Options One-click conversion Uploading to SlideBoom right from PowerPoint Hyperlinks and action buttons Audio and video clips YouTube video insert Insert Flash feature Flash-based player HTML-code generation – PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Flash movie preloader Live preview before publishing 10 player templates Customizable layout and color scheme Multilevel navigation Ink Annotation tools System fonts display Presenter video QuizBuilder updated SCORM compliant content Wednesday, October 14, 2009 iSpring Free iSpring Pro iSpring Presenter YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO NO NO NO YES YES Presentation Manager Publish presets Multiple presenters & company logos YouTube video insertion Embedded WAV/WMA/MP3 audio Embedded Flash movies Embedded AVI/WMV/MPG/MP4 videos Compression control Compression presets Recording audio narration Audio & presentation synchronization Recording video narration Audio & video & presentation synchronization iSpring Free iSpring Pro iSpring Presenter NO NO NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO NO NO NO NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO NO YES FREE Wednesday, October 14, 2009 $249.00 $399.00 FlashPoint PowerPoint to Flash Converter PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Conversion Options Retains several features of original PowerPoint – Animations – Slide transitions – Timings Re-bundles flash movies from original PowerPoint and re-create it in the final flash movie Extract video clips (*.asf *.wmv *.mpg) from original PowerPoint and re-create it in the final flash movie. (FlashPoint Pro feature) – PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Publishing a Web Page Specify Publish Settings –Click the Publish button to specify options –Specify which slides you want to publish in the Publish what? section –Enable our disable speaker notes with the Display speaker notes check box –Modify additional properties by clicking the Web Options… button –Specify which web browser support you’d like PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Convert PPT to Flash Convert PPT to screensaver Generate EXE file Compatible with PowerPoint 2003 Compatible with PowerPoint 2007 Support animations Support transitions Support bullets, callouts and shape Support GIF animation Import Flash movie Support shockwave object Wednesday, October 14, 2009 FlashPoint Lite FlashPoint Standard FlashPoint YES NO NO YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES Record narration for slide Support mp3, wav audio Import background music Support wma audio Create Flash movie with slide thumbnail Support video clips(.wmv .asf .mpg) Add lyrics to create MTV Wednesday, October 14, 2009 FlashPoint FlashPoint Standard FlashPoint Lite YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES YES $180.00 YES NO NO $120.00 NO NO NO $59.00 Record narration for slide Support mp3, wav audio Import background music Support wma audio Create Flash movie with slide thumbnail Support video clips(.wmv .asf .mpg) Add lyrics to create MTV FlashPoint Lite FlashPoint Standard FlashPoint YES YES YES NO YES YES YES NO YES YES YES YES NO NO NO YES NO NO $120.00 YES YES YES $180.00 $59.00 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Resources PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Resources www.RHEDPixel.com www.RichardHarringtonBlog.com www.VidPodcaster.com www.PodcastingforaCause.com www.CreativeCow.net www.FocalPress.com www.Peachpit.com www.ProVideoCoalition.com PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Richard Harrington, PMP Pixel • RHED (www.rhedpixel.com) • • Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Available for consultation Feel free to grab a business card Richard Harrington, PMP twitter.com/ rhedpixel facebook.com/ RichHarringtonStuff linkedin.com/in/ richardharrington youtube.com/ rhedpixeltv Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Author of Several Books PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 How to Wow with PowerPoint • Typography • Layout and design • Tables, charts, and graphs • Audio and video files • Exporting and publishing • Complete CD-ROM off and free shipping in the • 35% U.S. Go to http://bit.ly/c8RLd and enter HTWPOWER at checkout Wednesday, October 14, 2009 PowerPoint’s Flash Point Using Flash Technology with PowerPoint PowerPoint Live 2009 • Atlanta, October 11-14 Wednesday, October 14, 2009