Video Editing : Feel the Power!
Mention running video from within PowerPoint (or any other popular presentation program) and don't be surprised if someone involved in the production process rolls their eyes. It's not that you can't run video from within a presentation program: People do it successfully every day. It's just that experienced professionals know that if problems are going to appear during a presentation, it's likely that those problems will appear when the embedded video portion of the show begins.
Most presentation programs do their primary task efficiently and don't take well to distractions by the necessity of running a whole different type of program, while maintaining their original task in the background. This is particularly true when the subordinate task is something as processor intensive as playing back full-screen, full-motion video.
The smart presentation designer, therefore, will learn how to increase the odds that the embedded video runs as efficiently as possible. This month, we'll take a look at how to make video clips that are presentation frie…
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