Inserting movie clips into powerpoint

13 May 2006 12:16 AM

ShoneyCheney

Can anyone tell me how to take short clip from a DVD movie and insert
it into a power point? Does one need software? If so what?

Thanks.

13 May 2006 2:04 AM

PTravel

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> Can anyone tell me how to take short clip from a DVD movie and insert
> it into a power point? Does one need software? If so what?
>
> Thanks.

You need to rip the video from the DVD. There are a number of programs
around that do it, though the ones that will do so from a copy-protected
commercial DVD cannot be legally distributed. Once you've ripped the video,
you need to edit it to get the clip you want to use. Depending on the
ripper that you use, you'll probably be left with mpeg video. A program
like VideoReDo will let you edit the clip. Once you've saved the clip, you
can import it directly into PowerPoint. However, PowerPoint doesn't work
particularly well with mpeg video -- you may need to transcode to WMV or
AVI. Microsoft has a free media encoder program that will transcode to wmv.
I don't know any free or inexpensive programs that will transcode from mpeg
to avi.

This is all not a particularly difficult process, but you may want to find
someone who understands video to help you.

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