Homework woes
So I spent a large part of my weekend working on a film analysis which is due in class this evening. The written analysis part wasn't the problem, it was the presentation with film clips that sucked in my time.
Step one, get clips off a DVD into a form that plays nice with PPT. Sounds easy right, well after ripping the DVD 3 times, twice to get only video and once to get only audio it was 8 pm on Sunday night. I called P, who has video editing software on his machine and went visiting. A little over an hour later I had my 5 clips, video and audio, in .wmv and .avi formats. Yeah, now to go home and finish the presentation.
My original intention, load the clips into PPT and just play the whole thing from there. Great idea, but it doesn't function very well. It seem PPT doesn't actually copy the videos in, just sort of link to them, and does weird things with the video feed. The .avi files will play the audio, but never show the video inside PPT. As for the .wmv, NONE of what I included in the PPT got all the way through (and most are under a minute) without the video freezing. The sound went on just fine.
So, I ended up with a PPT presentation with a bunch of links out to the .avi files and I'll just have a player fire up and watch the clips that way.
At least I got what I need and can get through the presentation quickly without having to find my place on a DVD in front of the class.
Step one, get clips off a DVD into a form that plays nice with PPT. Sounds easy right, well after ripping the DVD 3 times, twice to get only video and once to get only audio it was 8 pm on Sunday night. I called P, who has video editing software on his machine and went visiting. A little over an hour later I had my 5 clips, video and audio, in .wmv and .avi formats. Yeah, now to go home and finish the presentation.
My original intention, load the clips into PPT and just play the whole thing from there. Great idea, but it doesn't function very well. It seem PPT doesn't actually copy the videos in, just sort of link to them, and does weird things with the video feed. The .avi files will play the audio, but never show the video inside PPT. As for the .wmv, NONE of what I included in the PPT got all the way through (and most are under a minute) without the video freezing. The sound went on just fine.
So, I ended up with a PPT presentation with a bunch of links out to the .avi files and I'll just have a player fire up and watch the clips that way.
At least I got what I need and can get through the presentation quickly without having to find my place on a DVD in front of the class.