[Screen shot of a PowerPoint document] Daniel: But that brings us to what I think is the more fun of these two demos, which is something that we call STAMP, which is the Subtitling for Microsoft PowerPoint, S-T-A-M-P. Subtitling Add-ins for Microsoft PowerPoint. And the idea of STAMP is that many times we will embed videos into PowerPoint presentations, or we have the need to caption videos, and there aren’t many very easy tools to do this. So we’ve created this plug-in that essentially is a turnkey solution for creating captions. So I have a blank Slide here on my PowerPoint presentation, I have it set in the 15 x 9 aspect ratio, just because it’s a widescreen video that I know that I’m going to be importing. When I click on the Insert tab here in PowerPoint I’m then going to go to the far right hand side and you’ll see there’s an Insert Video. [Present clicks in Insert – Video – Insert Video] I’m going to click on that and I’m going say I’m going to insert video from a file. [Presenter clicks on Video from File] And when I do that it opens up my Documents library, and here’s a file here that I’m going to insert. [Presenter clicks on a file name in the Documents Library] So I double click on that, and it’s going to insert that. And I’m going to just resize this, so that it fills up the entire screen. [Presenter selects and resizes the box] There we go. So now when I plug in my audio again, you’ll be able to hear the audio video. So if I run the show here, and I play the movie. [Presenter clicks on Play and the video begins] And being from Seattle I have to, of course, I like Starbucks. [Audio is coming from the video that is being played] OK, you get the idea, the video, and we need to now add some captions to that. So I’ve come back to the main Slide screen, and when I select that video, in the upper menu here you’ll notice that it’s then added the tab here, Video Tools.
So you’ll see the Caption appeared at the bottom of the screen. So my Captions appear. Now a couple of things that – I know this looked good, but I don’t like it – first that this has wrapped around to the second line, and I don’t think that that’s very viewable, so what I’m actually going to do is, these are just text blocks that we’re creating, and so because they’re just text blocks we can modify them in any way we want to, just like text. [Presenter clicks and drags over the text block to highlight it] So I’m actually going to reduce the font size of this down to, let’s make to 20 point type, and let’s make this centred. [Presenter clicks on the font size and changes the size to 20 point type, and then clicks on the Centre icon in the paragraph menu] And I also want to, because I know that this top one is a little bit higher; I can actually align and I can just resize this down to match the other ones. [Presenter clicks on Video Tools – Playback – Align Captions] And so now if we play this, I’ve centred those Captions, and I resized them so they should fit on the one line. [Presenter clicks on Play and the video starts playing, showing the changes the Presenter has made to the PowerPoint Slide] So we’ve resized it, we’ve centred it. Now one last thing that I don’t like about this is the fact that those big black text blocks cover up parts of the screen that may very well be important or visually interesting, and again because this are text blocks, all I have to do is I just sort of drag and select, which will select all of them. [Presenter clicks and drags over the text block] And if I right click on that block and I go to Format Object, it will take me to the formatting screen. [Presenter right clicks on the block, then selects Format Object] And I’m going to select that I want this to be solid filled, and I want this to be 50% transparent. [Presenter selects Solid Fill, then changes the transparency to 50%, then clicks on Close] So now when I close this, and we click Play.