Video or flash help needed for running text

[mindmaniac]

I'm trying to make a quick 5 or 10 second clip with a bunch of words running by, coming from the right and left. I would really like if I could get some of them to overlap and have different size fonts. Do any of you have any suggestions to how I could do this? I would like to have it saved as a movie file so I can insert it into PowerPoint. I'm hoping to have 100 or so equations that run by as if there is a lot of information and then when they have all passed by have in the center a solution that zooms out.

 

[Injury]

After Effects can do that no problem.

Flash and Director can do it, too, but might take some patience.

 

[Mo0o]

Swish can probalby do it although im not sure they can be embedded into a powerpoint.

 

[bibbyking]

cant powerpoint do this already??

it would be pretty easy in flash as well if you have the software.

 

[mindmaniac]

Originally posted by: bibbyking
cant powerpoint do this already??

it would be pretty easy in flash as well if you have the software.

Do you what flash software I would need? I want to do this for as little $ as possible and I need it to be fairly easy.

 

[bibbyking]

i believe "swish" is free....

flash will cost ya...

 

[Mo0o]

Are you sure Flash movies can be embedded into powerpoint? Keep in mind it's not a GIF and it doesn't behave like a normal image file... You might want to look into that before you spend a hour making your picture

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Are you sure Flash movies can be embedded into powerpoint? Keep in mind it's not a GIF and it doesn't behave like a normal image file... You might want to look into that before you spend a hour making your picture

I believe with more recent versions of flash you can publish it as a quicktime file.

Aside from that, I don't see why you COULDN'T display flash content in a PP.