Over the last couple of years, Microsoft Producer has become less and less of a viable option for synching powerpoint and video. Probably because of browser changes, it works on less browsers than before, and is no longer compatible even with Powerpoint 2007. So I went in search of a Flash-based replacement for MS Producer. I've found it in the Rich-Media-Project's Rich-Media Pack I.

RMP I features 4 components: A Flash-Paper "player", an FLV video player, a slide list and a media playlist. You create a flash-paper version of the powerpoint or word document, then synch it to the video with XML. The playlist is generated by another xml file, and the captions are created using a third XML file.
The only thing missing is an easy way to create the XML files, so I am creating templates for the captions and slide list XML files in Subtitle workshop. Below is the code for the Custom Format file for the captions:

[Information]

  Name=RichMediaProjectCaptions

  Extension=*.xml

  Time structure=hh:mm:ss.zzz

  Time=True

  FPS=29,97

  New line char=


[Format text]

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

  <captions>

  {RepeatSub}

  <item>

  <tcIn>{swStart}</tcIn>

  <tcOut>{swEnd}</tcOut>

  <text>{swText}</text>

  </item>

  {EndRepeat}

  </captions>