I am seeking help here to see if PowerPoint has the features of being used to generate slide videos in an effective manner. Currently I am using Adobe Captivate as the main software, but PowerPoint as the slide generator and where animations are also set (audio/voiceovers are added in Captivate).

I would like to use PowerPoint for the entire process, generate the video and convert it after to a better format than *.wmv

My current problem is that I cannot find a way to preview the slides (to test animation/audio timings) without having to play the slide from the beginning each time (which is very time consuming when I am interested to check the timings that happen several minutes into the slide). Is there a way to work with PowerPoint so that I can move the marker to any specific part if the slide duration and play from there?

To be honest, I find it a bit strange that (at least as far as I can tell) PowerPoint does not have a better timeline-feature (like most other similar software for editing presentations/videos has) that allows for this, since it is such a strong and long-lived product otherwise.

When I click on a slide say half way through my presentation PowerPoint has an option to view the slide show "From Current Slide". This is on the Slide Show ribbon bar.

Tuph

Pretty sure that's not what kvitso means. He wants to start the animation part way through a slide. You can't really do this.

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