"Skywise" wrote in message
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Stubby wrote in news:7Zudnb5HqJJ-
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The file is a PowerPoint (.pps) presentation.

You've just reduced your potential audience to a slim number.

rant
What is it with the urge for people to convert pictures and video to
formats other than what they were taken in? What's wrong with JPG?

JPG is a "lossy" format. Each time the file is re-saved, it re-compresses
and information is lost.

or AVI?

AVI is relatively UNcompressed and can take up a lot of space. IIRC, AVIs
take up about 13Gb per hour.

or MOV?

Proprietary.

Nope. That's not good enough. It's got to be converted to PDF, or PPS, or
flash, or shockwave, or one of the dozens of other formats that are the fad
of the
week that by the time people manage to find a player to view them, is no
longer in vogue. If file size is an issue, these formats are already
compressible - just re-encode them with increased compression for web use.

You may find it interesting that AVID (arguably the most widely used
professional video editing platform) encodes material into Quicktime files.

FWIW...

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ
Freelance Editor