#1 2009-11-19 11:37:20

**_eaksoy_**

Syncing FLV video with PowerPoint slides

We are testing a new training format, which requires syncing a video (in FLV format) with PowerPoint slides.

FLVs are big and run about 3.5 hrs. As the FLV streams, PowerPoint slides need to advance.

I hope someone else in the community has a solution for this.

Thank you,

-Erhan

**_mark2741_**

Re: Syncing FLV video with PowerPoint slides

Not sure what you're asking for exactly but...

There's no way out of the box to do this, if you're just looking to throw a 3.5 hour FLV in one share pod and a PPT in another.

There are a bunch of different approaches you could take that might be successful, including:

1. Dividing the FLV into separate sections, one for each PPT slide. Then bring them into Adobe Presenter or Captivate and sync up the FLV sections with each slide that way.

That would be my recommended approach (based on what little you said), but if you absolutely *must* keep the 3.5 hour FLV in one single FLV, then you could:

2. Develop a custom Flash swf 'wrapper' that contains two things:

One: a video playback component (whether you use an actual component is up to you, but it'd have to function that way) that is polled for cuepoints that were previously inserted into the FLV to denote when the slide change must occur.
Two: an image clip that displays the series of images that would correspond to your powerpoint slide. So you'd have to export your PPT slides as images. If they have animations then you'd have to get them to SWF.

Obviously, option 2 is kind of a nightmare and it'd be well worth your time/effort to just go with the first option unless you have some reason you can't.

**_eaksoy_**

Re: Syncing FLV video with PowerPoint slides

Thanks for the quickly reply.

There is no absolute requirement to run the full FLV in full length.

My question with the second option is:

If we develop the SWF wrapper (to run the FLV which sync with PPT images), and later publish it to a share pod,  can we force it to run in synchronized mode? We don't want live participants to stop/start the video at their will.

Erhan

**_mark2741_**

Re: Syncing FLV video with PowerPoint slides

Why wouldn't you want to offer a stop/start capability to a 3.5 hour video. Do your students not urinate?

**_eaksoy_**

Re: Syncing FLV video with PowerPoint slides

Valid point :). We give them 10 min break at midway.

**_Jorma_at_RealEyes_**

Re: Syncing FLV video with PowerPoint slides

If you are going to build a SWF to run in the Share pod, you will want to build it to the specs in this document: Adobe Acrobat Connect Collaboration Builder SDK

You can then build is so it will allow Sync functionality.

**_Terry_at_RefinedData_com_**

Re: Syncing FLV video with PowerPoint slides

Hi Erhan,

It was great seeing you in San Jose at DevLearn!

Talking Stick will allow you to play a 3.5 hour video (no upload is needed in to the room as you point at a URL anywhere on the net or to a file uploaded to your Connect Server) and pause it at will.

You can run the FLV either fully synched (users have no control) or unsynched (each user can start/stop the video at will or scrub the timeline.

If you had a Powerpoint running at the same time you could manually advance the slides at the correct times or for a complete solution, you could do a screen capture of the entire event using manual slide advance (Total Screen Recorder Gold will grab the entire event as a 30fps FLV) and then use Talking Stick to play back the FLV of the recording.

End result is that the video will play in the FLV and the slides will auto advance because it was all recorded that way by the screen capture. I can walk you through this is you need help.

Good Luck,

Terry