Need to give a presentation over the internet - which software to use?

[manveruppd]

Hey folks, need some advice. I'll be filming myself reading a paper for an e-conference and I'm wondering which software to use. I know of plenty of recording software, but I need to also be able to insert Powerpoint slides in the video, and I'm wondering which recording/editing software to use that'll make the process easy.

I know there are educational software packages that let lecturers record their voice over a video containing just the slides, but I'd like to have my face in there for part of it cause I think people looking at slides for 20' will just lull them to sleep. Maybe have my face as picture-in-picture at points? So what I'm looking for is something that can just grab the Powerpoint slides and stick the in the video, otherwise I'll have to faff about with taking screenshots of the slides and then pasting them into the video, which sounds like a pain. And if I put any animated transitions in the slides I'd have to record the whole transition using FRAPS or something and then insert THAT into the video, which sounds like an even bigger pain! Is there a video editing suite that could automate this?

Any suggestions? Open source/free software preferred!

 

[manveruppd]

No guys, I'm not doing this live, I'm going to record it and post it on the conference website, so it's video editing software that I need. Any suggestions?

 

[manveruppd]

ActivePresenter seems to be exactly what I need, thanks for that!

Unfortunately the free edition does import from Powerpoint slides - they know just how to get you to shell out for it! But I can always simply not have any animated transitions and save the slides as images instead. It imports images just fine.

Can't believe there isn't an open source video editing suite that does this!