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Microsoft Stream is no Replacement for Office Mix
Quick question/comment that goes along with all of this...I understand the longer time is because of it becoming a video, I already was saving my mixes as MP4s because of the program I was uploading them to, so the time thing does not bother me. My question is more about the use of Mix. As an educator, I used mix to make lessons for an on-line course. With Mix going away, is there now not a way for me to make a video using PowerPoint? If not, did y'all really not think that part through, as that was, in my opinion, the entire point of Mix and if Stream is supposed to "replace" Mix, why can I not make the videos, that was kinda the whole point. And, if Stream does not allow that to happen, does Microsoft have a program that does work with PP and make a video, if so, what?
Hello Nicole,
If you are trying to create a video from your PowerPoint project, go to File, Export and Create a Video. I too like and use the MP4 files (I often upload these to YouTube), but I am missing the interactivity that Mix supported (create a quiz in a presentation and gather student responses for example.)
The problem I was having before MIX is that audio did not transfer into the video -- which of course made it utterly useless as a training option. Will Stream capture audio? and animations? I do quizzes, etc. in a different format, so that isn't an issue for me.
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Ellen Bennett - If you use PowerPoint's "Recording" tab you can add in audio files, do voice over while doing a screen capture, or even record yourself presenting the slides. The audio from any of these will be used in the video that gets uploaded to Stream.
Doug Roberts - We are investigating bringing some of the features of Mix like quizzes and interactivity into PowerPoint and Stream, but unfortunately we aren't far enough along in that thinking/planning to share anything concrete.
