One of our pillars for PowerPoint 2010 has been crafting a multimedia experience that allows users to effectively harness the storytelling power of audio and video content. With improvements in bandwidth, computing power, and media devices, we’re seeing media – particularly video – used in all walks of life to enrich communication. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback on PowerPoint’s video capabilities over the years, and we’re very excited about the features we’re rolling out in 2010 to make this experience not only dependable, but pleasurable too. In addition to completely revamping our media playback technology,
Office Professional Plus 2010, we’ve improved the whole media workflow: insertion, editing, presenting and distribution. To me, one of our most exciting and ambitious goals was to make video feel like an integrated part of PowerPoint; this means that every effect you can put on a shape or picture now work on video during playback, not just the first frame. Respecting the z-order of video is another example of this deep integration. I think we’ve accomplished this goal, but I’ll let this video speak to some of the simple but amazing things you can do with video in PowerPoint 2010: We’ve also added some slideshow playback controls to give you full control over the video: But that’s not all! We’ve also added features to help you trim media, integrate with the animation timeline,
Office Enterprise 2007, and even export your PowerPoint presentation to video. Combining the familiar PowerPoint interface with common video media tasks puts basic video editing within the reach of our every customer,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, rather than a task that’s only possible today for media specialists with high-end video editing software. I,
Windows 7 Professional, personally, can’t wait to see what you create. In the coming months, members of the multimedia team will be diving deeper into specific features on this blog. In the meantime, we’d love to hear any questions or comments you might have. We’ll do our best to address them via future posts or in the comments. Allen Huang
Program Manager,
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