How can I integrate words, webcam footage, and audio into a Youtube video?

Question

My idea is that the majority of the video will feature written words moved in similar to a powerpoint presentation. There will be an audio accompaniment and brief webcam images for impact. My problem is that I've seen videos that do this, but I can't figure out how to do it myself, as powerpoint doesn't work with Movie Maker and of course isn't for youtube. I've scoured the Internet too. So how can I include words that fade in (which makes is seem like a powerpoint) in a youtube video? If that makes sense.

My idea is that the majority of the video will feature written words moved in similar to a powerpoint presentation. There will be an audio accompaniment and brief webcam images for impact. My problem is that I've seen videos that do this, but I can't figure out how to do it myself, as powerpoint doesn't work with Movie Maker and of course isn't for youtube. I've scoured the Internet too. So how can I include words that fade in (which makes is seem like a powerpoint) in a youtube video? If that makes sense.

I also tried a converter but I found it destroys the quality... and doesn't even convert the whole darn thing. Boo.

Answer 1

Hi Red,

It's not too hard to do what you want, but chances are what you've seen was done on a Mac. Mac PowerPoint has a feature File > Save As > PowerPoint movie. That makes a file in .mov format that can be put into QuickTime Pro, iMovie, and iDVD where you can slice and dice it a million different ways.

Maybe you could become friends with someone who has a Mac. The PowerPoint file you made in Windows is easily transportable to the Mac because it is exactly the same file format (unless you saved in PowerPoint 2007's XML format in which case you should save as .ppt).