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Exporting to video takes FOREVER!
I believed it is caused by format converting with such video quality we wanted, as 1080p. So this is not only about how many slides, also about screen recording.
My advise would be:
1) "Mix" Instead of Video Converting
If video and audio is not necessary in your presentation, means your audience maybe able to swipe through the presentation themselves on their devices. Then you may consider having it share as "Mix" into your own space in office mix site or docs.com personal page. Be reminded you can always setup how private you preferred. And share as Mix actually way less time-consumed is for sure.
2) Split the Presentation Into Smaller Parts
Like my latest tutorials I produced. Instead of one long videos, I created one 30 mins video and it was taking like one hour and I gave up on the converting. I re-record the videos in section like 5 mins each, so it takes about approximately 5-10 mins for each video converting, how fast or slow it goes really depending on the specs of your machine, also how many other applications you running the same time.
I can understanding these maybe not the best solutions for yours case, but I guess this workaround could let you make things done at least. Mix is not yet a perfect a finished product, that's why they name it Beta still, but more people using it, more issues we found and solve, this way will make this useful (and free) tool going perfect.
In fact, compare to a lot of other MS product, Mix team does actually listen. I raised my using issue to the Mix team about a year ago by email, they actually ask me for details and providing solutions (the process take sometimes to test). My point is, if we like the product, let's use it, tell it, then we will have what we expected.
Thanks for reading. Hope it helps. :)
The same scenario is happening to me with FOUR slides. Each has a video on the slide. The first time I saved it, it went through smoothly and quickly, but after that, it's a slow boat to China, in fact after four hours, it was barely 1/4 of the way through saving...I've restarted, removed add-ins, etc. Nothing seems to help. Do you have any suggestions for me? Kidd Wong
- Just curious, what kind of hardware are you using? On my ThinkPad T480s Core i7, it seems to be noticeably faster than on my Surface Pro 4 Core i5. Granted, neither of them are exactly powerhouse computers, but I'm thinking that PowerPoint's video rendering process is probably not super optimized for speed. So the hardware may be the limiting factor. Just a guess.
Greg EdwardsThanks for the reply. I have a Toshiba with an Intel Core i7 but this just started a day ago. Before that, I was saving MP4s left and right with no issues. I'm beginning to think it might be an add-in. If that doesn't work, I'll have to reinstall 365. 😞
I've got an i5 7400 and a GTX 1080 GPU, it's taken 20 minutes to reach about 95% on a video a little under a minute long. Thing is the CPU usage isn't going above 30% and GPU usage barely reaches 10%, which is probably from Chrome anyway.
EDIT: it's finally exported and half the video is broken, what an absolute joke.
Dan_of_MarsdenThanks for your reply. There's clearly something wrong with the way this works. When, one day I'm working along famously with no problems but the next day...it's a slow boat to China! PIus, it has nothing to do with my system. My system is fine or it would be if I could avoid about 90% of the Microsoft updates. For instance, this last update now has everything downloading into a NEW download folder that I didn't create so I have to copy and paste everything I download now...nice! LOL! A couple of weeks ago after an update I had to start signing into Microsoft every time I used a document from OneDrive. There's always something... I've been using Microsoft products since their inception and there's-always-something! 🙂 Happy New Year!
