I have a Sony Digital Handycam/Digital 8 DCR-TRV510 NTSC and a "PCI to
Firewire IEEE 1394" and I want to record my Powerpoint presentation on
my Handycam but I can't figure how to do it...
I have Powerpoint XP, ULEAD VideoStudio 4.0 SE Basic, Windows Movie
Maker...
Help please!  Thanks

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Clarification of Question by emmanuelle-ga on 04 Jan 2003 14:53 PST

sorry, I forgot to say that I do not want to record my ppt. as
individual jpeg but I want to see the actual presentation with
transition etc. A way to record a screenshot would be fine with me
(and maybe easier than "exporting" my ppt. to the Handycam)
Feel free to ask me other details if needed...

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Clarification of Question by emmanuelle-ga on 04 Jan 2003 18:37 PST

funkywizard-ga: sorry, another thing to clarify, I don't think my
NVIDIA GeForce3 has a TV output. I do not see any Cable F or S-VHS
thing to plug the Videocamera (I have the cables, but nothing to put
it in - I also have the cable from the camera to the Firewire).
Thanks.

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Clarification of Question by emmanuelle-ga on 05 Jan 2003 09:43 PST

Thank you all for your help... Actually, I found a friend with a
TV-output my problem is now solved.  emmanuelle

does the graphics card on your computer support tv output? if so, all
you would need to do is configure that, and hook up the appropriate
cables to your camcorder (or vcr), and this would work fairly well.

I don't know if yours is one of these or not, but some digital video
cameras with a Firewire port can only use the Firewire port for
*playback* of video (ie from the camera into a computer for subsequent
editing). They cannot use it for *recording* (ie from the computer
into the camera and on to tape) which is what you want to do.

A different approach might be to save the Powerpoint presentation as a
sequence of JPGs and then record these as a PhotoCD onto a CD-R. Many
modern DVD players have the ability to play PhotoCDs. This would lose
the transition effects and animations, etc, but the viewer would gain
the ability to advance the presentation slide-by-slide at their own
desired pace.

Or you could make a VideoCD which would allow music, commentary etc,
playable on a PC or modern DVD player.

There are a multitude of packages that would do this, including Ulead
DVD PictureShow and Phot2VCD at www.photo2vcd.com Check individual
packages for details. Your existing software might even have this
capability.

If you need to get to videotape you could then make an analogue copy
from DVD video-out to VCR video-in sockets.

Hope those ideas help.

Owain