The big question everyone has and the one downfall of powerpoint
seems to be: how on earth do you put text over video in powerpoint?
The answer is: powerpoint does not support text over video. But there
are a couple of ways around it so that you can in a sense get text
over video in powerpoint. One is the fact that you can use animated
gifs in powerpoint and you can lay text over animated gifs. You must
insert the gif as an image and it will display as an animation in the
background of text. However, animated gifs are small and really cant
be used as backrounds. To fix this, you need a program that can
convert video to animated gifs. I reccomend Alchemy Mindworks' Gif
construction set. The website is:
http://www.mindwork.shop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html
What this program does, is it extracts the frames from any .avi
or .mov file and displays them and allows you to change color,
resize, crop your video file and save it as a .gif format. It also
allows you to compress the file by removing unwanted frames, and
reducing the color palette. This program also allows you to create
your own animated gifs out of pictures and text. You can then open
your saved animated gif from within powerpoint and it runs without
choppiness.
Another way to do text over video is through creating a video with
Windows Movie Maker (Windows XP only) and putting it into powerpoint.
I have tried a couple of other products such as Powerplugs:Video
Backgrounds, but they do not allow split screen mode, and are full of
bugs. They also are very choppy when playing back a powerpoint with
many different video elements in it at once. It also doesnt allow the
playback of other formats of video along with the motion backgrounds.
So, if you are up for it, animated gifs seem to be one of the only
reliable ways to display text over video in powerpoint that I have
found. I am hoping, eventually powerpoint will include this feature
so that you don't have to bother with all of this, but until then,
this is a good solution. Hope it helps!

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