quality of movie made rom powerpoint

[DaveB]

Version: 2008

When I have finished a powerpoint presentation (On the Mac) and saved it as a movie ready to be burnt to DVD I find that the on screen quality is not good on a TV and worse when playing back on a PC or even trying to play back on the Mac that it was originally made on What am I doing wrong. Seems to be th process of making it into a DVD that's the problem

cheers Dave

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Version: 2008

When I have finished a powerpoint presentation (On the Mac) and saved it as a

movie ready to be burnt to DVD I find that the on screen quality is not good on a
TV and worse when playing back on a PC or even trying to play back on the Mac that
it was originally made on What am I doing wrong. Seems to be th process of making
it into a DVD that's the problem

You may not be doing anything wrong, other than expecting too much.

Your computer screen probably displays an image of at LEAST four times as many
pixels as a TV can deliver. And for a number of technical reasons, a TV picture
is pretty shabby in other ways than just resolution, when compared to what you get
on your monitor.

And then to make things even worse, unless you use a very high quality video mode
(read HUMONGOUS files) the quality suffers even more from compression artifacts
and such.

And even though you may be playing it back on a computer instead of a TV, the
image has been compressed, squished, squeezed, downsampled and generally munged to
TV quality by the time it gets there.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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[Gary DiPalma]

There seems to be a problem with the way Powerpoint 2008 makes movies. I made a movie using Powerpoint 2004 and the black text on a white background looks fine. When I try to save the same file as a movie in Powerpoint 2008 the text looks blurry and the characters seem to be not well formed. The file icon is different too. I'm using Arial so the font outlines should be ok.