> Sounds like you need VirtualDub. Better than Freeware,
> it's open source. Check it out. http://www.virtualdub.org/
>
> -Tony

I'd second that - excellent utility. Does PowerPoint support
.ram/.rm/ra files ? If so you could also try Real Producer from
www.real.com. It can crunch an AVI (as produced by Virtual
Dub eg) down as much as 100:1 in size, although quality is
getting pretty scrappy at that stage (it's like jpegging), especially
with action. TMPGenc is another utility worth having. So is
Camel's MPG Join and Peck's AVI Join. All the above are free

The latest version of Media Player (number 9 I think) has most
of the commonly used codecs bundled, as does DIVX (www.divx.com).
There are still some clean codec d/l sites around but many seem
to have gone a bit grubby

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