How do I save .odp as video?

[GabrielWolff]

Hi

in OpenOffice.org Impress I made a odp slide show of pictures of my kids, including music and transition tricks.

I'd like to send it to some family members, including grannies who wouldn't find the on/off button on a computer if I hadn't pointed it out 50 times before.

So what I need is a simple file format. One double click on the file and it's open. On both WIN and Ubuntu.

I thought I could convert it to .avi or something, but after hours of googling I'm still clueless how to do this.

Does anyone have any idea or better suggestion?

G

[Hagar Delest]

Does it help: Making a DVD from a presentation (ppt2dvd) (http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2090)?

[GabrielWolff]

Does it help: Making a DVD from a presentation (ppt2dvd) (http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2090)?

Thanks, but no, not really. The last post on that thread, concluding the whole discussion, is:
"VideoPPT doesn't work with OOo, it is an add-in for PowerPoint.". Same goes for ppt2dvd.

But come on, people, it cannot be that Impress cannot produce any version of a slide show that is visible, usable, playable by anyone else than people who use OpenOffice themselves!! What good is the program then!?

Anyone else with any other good ideas?

[Hagar Delest]

There are other proposals in the thread:
- Export as PDF
- Export as SWF (and then convert to avi or mpeg if needed)
- Use a portable version of OOo to play the slideshow

There may be screen recorders also that will record the slideshow you run on your own desktop (recordmydesktop).

[GabrielWolff]

There are other proposals in the thread:
- Export as PDF
- Export as SWF (and then convert to avi or mpeg if needed)
- Use a portable version of OOo to play the slideshow

There may be screen recorders also that will record the slideshow you run on your own desktop (recordmydesktop).

- I tried to export the slideshow as swf. Unfortunately any transitions got lost, and so did the sound track. Is that my fault or is it just the way swf works?
- recordmydesktop lost the sound track as well when I closed the mic. How do I record everything, incl the sound?

Thanks :)

G

[Hagar Delest]

Don't know for the sound. If it hasn't to be precisely synchronized with the slide changes, perhaps a movie editor could add the sound afterward.