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

manveruppd · 18 Sep 2012 at 17:17

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!

tribz · 18 Sep 2012 at 17:21

Have a look at TeamViewer as the presentation side of things may do what you want. It like a reverse remote control with the parties seeing your screen. There is also video conferencing built in so you may be able to get your video on a corner of the screen.

Edit, apologies ... reading closer its probably not what your looking for.

asim18 · 18 Sep 2012 at 20:35

Skype lets you switch between broadcasting your webcam and broadcating your screen.

The screen share feature is a Pro feature but has a 7 day trial.

manveruppd · 19 Sep 2012 at 09:43

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?

ultim · 19 Sep 2012 at 13:24

ActivePresenter

m4cc45 · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:15

You could always record yourself and add it to the slides I know powerpoint lets you have movie clips on the slides, etc.

May not be the most fluid way though.

M.

CooK1E · 19 Sep 2012 at 23:19

Webex?

manveruppd · 19 Sep 2012 at 23:43

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!