I often create video from Keynote for credit/idents etc, which works very well. Not sure how it would handle sound though. If it did retain sound you could just import the PPT template into Keynote (might need a bit of tweaking) then you could skip the Windows bit completely.
Cheers, David Glasgow > On 11 Apr 2017, at 1:36 pm, Terry Judd via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Yeah, this is a bit of a bodged together process. I have a ‘template’ > Powerpoint file that I modify by swapping screen text, images and audio > (.pptx files are actually .zip archives so I can do this using revZip). The > audio files, which are themselves derived from templated scripts using > revSpeech in conjunction with Sound Siphon are created on the Mac. The now > personalised PPT files (potentially 100s of these) then need to be converted > to videos for upload to Vimeo and this has to be done on Windows as these are > no PPT to video utilities on the Mac that preserve the audio. So, it’s all > (preferably) done without ever officially opening the files in PPT on the > Windows side (I definitely need a solution that doesn’t require me to > manually handle individual files). I think I probably have to look at batch > processing the audio files into a Windows friendly format on the Mac side > before switching them into the PPT files. > > Terry... > > On 11/04/2017 9:39 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Roger Eller via > use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Any add-on in the merg suite is likely to only use Apple centric formats. > I would let Windows PPT convert the audio, then if playback is suitable on > both platforms, distribute the converted file. > > On Apr 11, 2017 2:53 AM, "Terry Judd via use-livecode" < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> I’m using mergMicrophone (on OSX) with default settings to record audio >> (from revSpeech) for inclusion in Powerpoint presentations, but when I open >> the PPT files on a Windows computer (so that I can export them to video, >> retaining the sound) it complains about the sound files being in an >> inappropriate format and that it needs to convert them (through some >> internal process) before it can use them. This would be ok but I’ve >> potentially got hundreds of these PPT files and need to avoid the PPT >> conversion step. >> >> Any ideas on what mergMicrophone I should be using to record the audio >> files for them to be more Windows friendly? >> >> Terry... >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
