Hey Maurico,

For better resolution with PowerPoint or Keynote here are two little tricks.

The best way to work is to display each slide on a computer with a high resolution video card and a feed capable of displaying high rez.

The thing is, the way these presentation programs work is that they create vector based graphics (excluding images which have been imported from photos which will only scale to their largest pixel count). These vector graphics then render to whatever size the screen is. If you use a screen 640x480 then you have low rez. If you use a screen which is 2560x1500 you have high rez.

Here is the problem. You have a composite capture. This is 640x480. You could buy an LFG4 or Decklink HD Pro video capture card to stick into your Catalyst machine (you must have V4 of Catalyst to use features of the LFG4). With an SD capture card, you would at least be able to capture at DV-PAL/NTSC which would at least bump your width up to 720 wide.
If however you use the HD capture card it would mean you are importing 1920x1080 which mean your sides would look the best off the video input.

Here is the second scenario.
I have a 30" apple cinema display at 2560x1500. When I render my own content I can see it pixel for pixel that size. This mean that if I use the simple screen capture function (off of a power point side) I will catch an image that is 2560x1500. I then save this as a JPG and presto! I have a new Catalyst Library file.

I have a little program called Irfanview and I can capture a 100 slide presentation as JPGs in less than 1 min of work. Then use an external MIDI trigger to have the client step through cues on your lighting desk.

If you want more info, read the following thread:
http://chaldee1.gotadsl.co.uk/~richa...ead.php?t=1237