Using the Presto Wizard for Mac

This section shows Step 3 of 5 for creating a Presto project with your presentation slides and videos from either FCP or Premiere Pro. Go to Step 4.

 

Step 3: Process

Presto can save you a lot of time by automatically preparing your presentation.

The processing tasks that appear in the task list depends on the contents of your project. Presto determines which task (if any) is appropriate for each track based on the role defined for the track.

Process tab prior to processing

The Processing tab lists the processing tasks that Presto will perform for you

 

Processing manually

If you prefer to perform a task manually, turn off the checkbox in the Enable column of the task. For example, if the presenter stays glued to the podium and hardly moves throughout the presentation, then you may be able to save time by manually placing a small number of tracking boxes using the Presenter view.

 

 

Advanced option - Excluding individual clips from processing

You can exclude individual clips on the presenter or screen track from the automatic processing. To exclude a clip, first select the clip in the timeline. Then right click on the timeline and choose Exclude From Processing. This is useful when there are sections of the video that it is not appropriate or necessary to apply the processing to, such as a panel discussion during a presentation (Presto can only track one presenter at a time). Note however that you need to identify these sections and split them into separate clips prior to exporting the project from FCP to Presto.

Press the Start Processing button to start the automatic processing.

 

Process tab during processing

The Process tab displays Presto's progress during processing

 

While processing, Presto shows you its progress in several ways:

Press the Cancel button at any time to cancel the current task. Any completed tasks will not be effected by cancelling.

To clear the results of processing, select the task(s) you want to reset, right click in the table, and select Reset Selected Task(s), as shown below.

 

Reseting a task

Use the Reset Selected Task(s) menu to remove the results generated by the task

 

When processing is finished, press the Next: Edit button to proceed to the last wizard tab.

NOTE: Sometimes Presto will have difficulty aligning the screen with the slides, in preparation for matching the slides with the screen video. In this case you will get the following error message during processing:

Performing screen alignment failed.
Use the manual alignment option on the Screen & Slides tab, and run processing again
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