5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint to Video

Benefits of PowerPoint
PowerPoint is a powerful presentation application which is very commonly used by lectures, businessmen, students, trainers, etc. It is easy to use and featured with a lot of functions to create interesting and dynamic slide presentations. This has made it widely accepted and utilized.

Benefits of Video
Video is powerful because it’s demonstrative, clearly depicting procedures, techniques or visual information such as charts and graphs. Most of all, video showcases charisma of live images and animations, allows for transparency and communication skills, which can lead to trust. It is also a good idea to make videos for special occasions as a way of watching them and reminiscing the good times.

Benefits of converting PowerPoint presentations to video
-> Display your presentations in a more vivid way
-> With PowerPoint in video format, it is easy for uploading to blog and websites
-> Even there is no computer, you can also view your presentations
-> Videos can be uploaded to portable devices such as iPhone, iPod and Pocket PC

5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video (free ways and cost-effective ways)
Method 1: Upload your presentations to
But there are limitations to the presentations uploaded to it. Max size of the presentation is limited to 100MB; animations, video clips and other complex elements couldn’t be added; PowerPoint 2007 is not supported. Sometimes, objects inserted into the presentation may be modified after the uploading.

Some other similar online PowerPoint sharing sites such as http://www.authorstream.com/ and http://www.slideboom.com/ also support generate video for the presentations uploaded. The advantage is that you don’t need to download any programs onto your computer and they are all free. If your presentation’s size is not too big, and there are only texts and pictures in your presentation, you can have a try at these sites.

Method 2: Use Camtasia which costs $299 to record your presentation and then generate a video
Step1: In the Task List, select Record PowerPoint.
Step2: Open a PowerPoint presentation to record.
Step3: Select the recording options from the PowerPoint Add-in Toolbar. Click the Record button.
Step4: The presentation opens in presentation mode. A Camtasia Studio dialog opens in the lower right corner of the screen. Click the Click to begin recording button.

Step5: Progress through the PowerPoint presentation slides. To stop the recording before the last slide, press . To stop the recording at the end of the presentation, click Stop recording.
Step6: Enter a file name and location and click Save. The presentation recording saves as a Camtasia Studio recording file.
Advantages with this method: The program can capture slide timing, animations, sound effects, webcam video and any applications displayed on screen during the presentation. You can also record your own narration while the screen-capture process is being carried out.
Disadvantages: This program eats huge system resources. If the configuration of your computer is not so good, animations may become laggy or even lost.

Method 3: Convert PowerPoint presentation to video with Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter
Step1: Download this PPT to Video Converter (Wondershare PowerPoint to video converter you also can use)and install it on your computer.
Step2: Launch the program. Click Import button to choose the presentation you want to convert, choose an output format for the video you want to generate. And then click Start button to start the conversion process. (This program can convert presentations to video in MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.)

Step3: Upload the video to blogs or websites such as YouTube.

Method 4: Use Windows Movie Maker to create a video for your presentations
Windows Movie Maker comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. With this method, it may time consuming and animations in your presentation would be lost after the conversion.
Step1: Save your PowerPoint slide show as “PNG” images.

Step2: Import the images to your Windows Movie Maker.
Step3: Select all the imported images and then add them to Storyboard.

Step4: Add video effects to the slides (Optional)
Step5: Save the slide show as Movie File.

Method 5: Make a QuickTime movie on Mac
Export your presentation as a QuickTime movie “PowerPoint Movie”. Then you can save your presentations to MOV video file. Way to do this: click File -> Make Movie
But in this way, sounds and animations couldn’t be retained. If you are using keynote, just export your presentation to QuickTime file directly.

Take the advantages of PowerPoint and video. Convert your presentations to video. Share your presentation with more people and create a more convenient way to view your presentations.

Further reading:
PowerPoint to movie - Top 3 Methods about PowerPoint to Movie Conversion

PowerPoint to FLV - How to convert PowerPoint to FLV

Valentine Gift Ideas for Your Beloved

Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated by many lovers all over the world, what you plan to do as the Valentine's Day approaches? Presenting flowers, exchanging confectionery, or sending Valentine's cards? This exceptional day of lovers allows everyone to give out the most fascinating things and speak up the never expressed things. Here are some perfect valentine gift ideas and tips that you can make your beloved happy.


There are plenty of options to choose. But before selecting any gifts for your beloved online, you need to put a lot of creativity, thinking and time. A gift for your beloved should largely depend on the personality of the individual. A Valentine Gift that suits the personality of your beloved will be considered as ideal.
1. Choose chocolates
If you want to make a great impression for your sweetheart on this Valentine, not to mention the feeling of cheerful surprise as your beloved receives this special valentine gift. You can choose heart-shaped chocolate, select a very romantic card and add some sweet message in it, then wrap it up to send to your beloved. This chocolate gift idea for your sweetheart promises to make her love you forever.

2. Choose candy
Surprise your Valentine with a gem of a candy collection or candy gift baskets. Candy gifts come in various types and categories suiting your sweetheart's mood and taste, not to mention affordability because candy would not be too expensive. With the aid of the various candy stores you can also order for various types of decorative candy boxes for your beloved. You can gift your spouse with a special candy bouquet.

3. Choose flowers
The meaning and beauty of flowers has captured our imagination so much that even words cannot match its power when it comes to expressing love. The perfect choice of a Valentine flower is the red roses, distinctly expressing love in its eternal form. The single stem of a rose also called “signature rose” is the most preferred choice of most Valentine lovers. Red, pink and white roses are the most sorts after Valentine Flowers. Red rose symbolizes passion, white purity and the pink rose is a blend of both.
For more flowers information you can browser Proflowers and Flowerpetal

4. Choose jewellery
Jewellery doesn't mean that it has to cost you a lot especially during the period of economic recession. My guess is she must be having many pairs of earrings and chains. So why not gift her something that she might just have one or even none. Select a nice anklet from a nearby jeweler and gift to her as a Valentine gift, you can select from different styles for her. So indulge yourself in this season of love with some great valentine jewellery ideas. Let your sweetheart remember you with this special moment lock inside her heart forever.

5. Record your romantic stories
Valentine's Day is a golden chance of expressing your love to your beloved. You can make up for all the time lost with great romance collage. Considering paper ones are easily damaged, you can create PowerPoint with snaps to cherish the memory of your love of joy. Under each Slide you can write a specific thing about your sweetheart, like "I miss your smile", "I miss you ". It will be a big fortune for you both. Presenting a sincere romance story in such a way could be an ideal Valentine's Day gift idea even if valentine flowers are not attached with it. For long-time preserve you can convert the PowerPoint to video or DVD instead papers. Here is a sample from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbrOSNsNUWo . Want to know how to do it? You can click here. Here are also some free PowerPoint templates.
Below is a DVD Menu of the tool.

These are just part of my ideas, do you have any more? Please show it to your sweetheart this Valentine's Day.

Free Valentine's Day PowerPoint Templates

Here are some free PowerPoint templates for Valentine's Day:




For more free ones, you can Click Here.

Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0 Released - Burn PowerPoint to DVD

News from: http://www.ppt-to-video.com/blog/acoolsoft-ppt2dvd-20-released-burn-powerpoint-to-dvd.html

April 28th, 2008 - Acoolsoft, which is absorbed in developing the best presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 2.0, an innovative yet economical solution to bring your PowerPoint presentation out of the monitors, but onto DVDs. Since its initial release on 2007, it has won tons of praises and received lots of Suggestions. After 5 months developing, it finally upgraded from 1.x to 2.0 with great improvements.

What's new in Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0?
Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is the best tool to burn PowerPoint to DVD with excellent quality. It can retain all the animations, transitions, audio tracks, video clips, action buttons, internal links and other things you've added to the presentation, and generate DVD Menus to enable you to control the playback with a DVD remote. It is used by more and more teachers, sales people, presenters and even individuals who want to share or distribute their PowerPoint slide show more conveniently.The newly released Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0 has been enhanced with flexible DVD Menus, additional PowerPoint to video functions, latest Blu-ray technology, and new encode engine for higher conversion speed. There improvements will make the PowerPoint to DVD conversion more efficient and more flexible.
Here are the main upgrades which are genuinely useful and keep the
Program standing on the top over the competitors:

1. Refreshing User Interface(Cool black and easy to understand)

2. Burn PowerPoint presentation to DVD disc with improved video quality

3. The conversion process is more stable and fast

With higher conversion speed, PPT2DVD 2.0 saves 50% time for you.

4. Reasonable DVD menu editor
You know one of the best ways to enjoy your video on channel with others is the DVD format, and an important part of making a DVD experience enjoyable is incorporated the useful and understandable menu.PPT2DVD 2.0 will guide you to where you want!

5. Create eye-popping menus with free backgrounds, frames and buttons
Have you ever wondered how to create stunning, professional-looking interactive DVD menus to make your PowerPoint presentation more attractive, just like the ones on the DVDs you buy?

The new version offers you an enhanced rang of menu materials including backgrounds, frames, buttons and text customizing, which will let you get creative when authoring your DVD PowerPoint presentation. Features include:
- Amazing picture backgrounds
- Flexible menu buttons
- Professional � Looking frames
- Customizing text
- Flexible frame-capturing function to apply any captured frame as the thumbnail image on the menu

6. Support 12 PowerPoint files batch process at a time

7. Accurately synchronization of sound and animation

8. Fully compatible with Windows Vista, PowerPoint 2007

9. It can retain the video full screen play and loop setting if set in original PowerPoint presentation

What is Acoolsoft PPT2DVD?
Acoolsoft PPT2DVD does only one thing: Burn PowerPoint presentation to DVD with the best solution! Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is a powerful presentation tool which helps you burn PowerPoint presentations to DVD without any complicated technical skills. The wizard of PPT2DVD can walk you through the steps to create DVD presentation out the PowerPoint and enjoy your Presentation on TV with only a DVD player.

Why you need to burn PowerPoint presentations on DVD?
- Showing presentations without the need of a computer
- Create your own Toast DVD menu style
- Distributing your slideshows to friends and colleagues on DVD Unattended
- exhibition presentations on big screen
- Giving your presentations a TV feel
- Creating professional looking presentations Ensuring that everyone can view your presentations (no matter whether they have PowerPoint installed on their computers)
- Protecting PowerPoint presentations from unauthorized editing

Click to learn more details about Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0.
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html

Download PPT2DVD 2.0:
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-download.html

Here is a sample from YouTube

Acoolsoft will Release PPT2DVD 2.0 This Sunday

News from Acoolsoft Official blog:

After nearly a half year's dedication of developing a more innovative and professional PowerPoint to DVD conversion tool, Acoolsoft is about to release its new version of PPT2DVD 2.0 on April 20th, this Sunday.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful tool to create professional looking presentations and slide shows. PowerPoint allows you to construct presentations from scratch or by using the easy to use wizard.And a number of people in the world are burning PowerPoint to DVD, not only because we live in a world with the mentality of a herd, everyone else wants to do this; There are must be some advantages to do so. We don't want discuss that to much here, you can view this article "PowerPoint burning software review" have a better understand.

Let's rapt our time to have a quick a look of the Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0.

It's said the newly released Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0 has been enhanced with innovative DVD Menu Creator, and new coding engine for high conversion speed and output quality. The improvements will make the PowerPoint to DVD conversion more efficient and effective.

The most highlight improvements are the User interface and DVD menu design. Here are some screenshots:

Start the program:
Refreshing User Interface

Reasonable DVD menu editor

Advanced Settings

Hope the release of PPT2DVD 2.0 this Sunday will give all of us a different feeling and experience, what's more important, make our presentation more Powerful and interesting.

PPS to dvd - convert pps file to MPEG

Resources:

http://www.ppt-to-video.com/blog/pps-to-dvd.html

Someone asked me about how to burn PPS to DVD or convert PPS(PowerPoint) files to MPEG video that can be burned to DVD!

A PPS is just a PPT file with a different file extension that tells PowerPoint "Open me directly into slide show view, not editing view." You can "convert" from one to the other simply by renaming the files. You need the same software to view either one.

Here are some questions and solutions, hope it can help you:
Q:Is there anyone here that can help me? I'm trying to take a slide show I created for and burn it to a DVD that will then play in a DVD player (I have pictures and music both embedded in the .pps)
Thanks.
A:If what you want to do is just a data back up, and you don't need to play your PowerPoint with a DVD player, common burning software is enough and No matter it is a CD or DVD. DVD disc have more space compare to CD.
If you want to watch PowerPoint on TV with a DVD player, here some aspects you need to pay attention to:
PowerPoint does not have the built-in ability to save presentations as video files or other video formats such as DVD-Video and, even if it did, there would be significant loss of interactivity (because DVD-Video and PowerPoint slide show have very different capabilities in this area) and loss of visual fidelity (DVD-Video resolution is less than typical computer display resolution and most television will not render colors the same way that a computer display will).

The only way to burn pps to DVD is to get specific PowerPoint to DVD software.
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoi…-overview.html

the other option is to use Windows Movie Maker but you would have to start from scratch and insert all the pictures onto it. I believe Windows XP and Windows Vista came with this free software so you probably have it. You click on Import Media and select the pictures you want (press Ctrl to select individual pictures). You can then use the Auto Movie button to add credits, music and transitions to your movie. Then burn it to DVD.

Q:I'm hoping to help a friend, who has to give a presentation, to convert a Powerpoint (.pps) file to either an MPEG file or, if possible, directly to a DVD format file. I downloaded a "Trial Version" of "Presentersoft PowerVideoMaker" and successfully converted the PPS file into MPEG format, which I then created a DVD with using my "Movie Factory" software. Unfortunately, both the MPEG file and the resultant DVD had a flashing notice on the bottom right corner of the video that it was "created with an unlicensed version of PowerVideoMaker". Since this will most likely be the only time that I will ever need to convert a PPS file, it really doesn't make sense for me to spend $ 125 CAD to buy the licensed version of PowerVideoMaker. So my question is this: Is anyone aware of any freeware available to convert PPS files to either MPEG's, AVI's or directly to DVD format?
A:There is no such thing as a free lunch if you want to get a better result! A trial program is much better.
and I must say I've never been that impressed with the results of any of the capture software I've tried, I can't say I'm that surprised, bearing in mind what must be the CPU load when both displaying PowerPoint and capturing a full screen. Even with a beast of a machine (Dual 2Ghz Athlon, 2Gb RAM, RAID array, 128Mb VGA) running at 800×600 and with all the performance boosting suggestions I've only ever achieved an unsatisfactory frame rate of approx 15fps. I can only increase the frame rate by reducing the resolution. Both options, in my opinion, are unsatisfactory when you consider that the media is DVD and capable of much more…
Am I missing something? I've used 3 methods to create DVDs that I've found more satisfactory than my screen capture results:
1) connecting the S-video out from a laptop to a domestic DVD recorder (i.e. one that records DVDs like a VCR). The DVD can then be taken to the PC, ripped and authored as desired.
2) Same process but capturing the video on another PC through an MPEG2 capture device, such as the the Win-TV PVR. I'm not 100% happy with these processes either, as it involves conversion to analogue video and back to digital, but the results have been far superior to my efforts with capture software.
3) Use Acoolsoft PPT2DVD and burn PowerPoint(PPS) to DVD directly, great and easy way buy you have to pay for this program, anyway, it's worth the money if you want to get a wow presentaion on TV with a DVD disc.

Enjoy your time and presentation!

PPT2DVD - PPT to DVD with DVD menu enhanced

PPT2DVD - PPT to DVD with DVD menu enhanced
 

Burning PowerPoint to DVD is a good idea for preserving presentations or extending the use of PowerPoint. You can either burn PowerPoint files to DVD disc directly, or convert it to video or DVD and then burn them to DVD disc. Converting PPT to DVD is different from converting PPT to video. To know the benefits of converting PowerPoint presentation to DVD comparing with converting to video, the best way is to understand the DVD structure.

The DVD menu matters

When we play a video DVD with DVD machine, in most conditions, we see a main menu first, which allows us to decide how the movie will be played: Select subtitle language, choose a conversation language, start from a specific chapter, etc. While playback, we can use navigation buttons on the remote control to rewind or skip through movies. Also, we can back to title menu or main menu to play another movie or chapter. The menu function is not supported by common video files.  Let's back to PowerPoint presentation. When we slide show with PowerPoint, we can advance presentation animation by animation and slide by slide, moreover we can build internal hyperlinks to go to a specific slide and turn back. With DVD menu, all these practical features will be inherited.  But a raw video has no way to retain them.

Understanding DVD structure

What does a DVD disc contain? Actually, if you open a movie DVD disc on your computer, you should see two folders: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. AUDIO_TS is created for storing DVD Audios (for audio DVD only), while the VIDEO_TS contains all data for the movie. Video DVD is what we concerned in this article, so let's take a look at the data contained in VIDEO_TS directory.

Usually, we should find three kinds of files under the VIDEO_TS: .BUP, .IFO and .VOB. IFO file is the content of the DVD. It tells the player where a chapter starts, where a certain audio or subtitle stream is located, etc. BUP files are just backup files of the IFOs. If the IFO files cannot be read, the player will read the BUP files instead. Next is the VOB file, it is a container that stores video stream, audio stream, subtitles and DVD menu. Video is MPEG-2, audio can be AC-3, Linear PCM, Mpeg 2 multichannel or MPEG1 layer2 two channel audio. It is why the DVD is encoded in MPEG-2 but not a MPEG-2 video.

Things about PowerPoint

Now, let's back to PowerPoint. If we burn a PowerPoint presentation to DVD disc in manual mode, we can use DVD remote control to navigate the converted video just like we doing so with PowerPoint. A professional PPT to DVD conversion tool should empower users to create and designed DVD menu.  The following illustration shows the title menu of a DVD, which is created by Acoolsoft PPT2DVD.

Here is the screenshots of Main page and ending page menu

Tools of burning PowerPoint presentation to DVD

There are many tools out there that are able to convert PowerPoint to DVD. The most famous one is Camtasia produced by Tech Smith, which is the leader in screen capturing field. Converting PPT to DVD is only a special function of the software. It may produce DVD video, but the menu design feature is not as good as Acoolsoft PPT2DVD, which is a professional tool in the world that is specialized in converting PPT to DVD with DVD menus. It retains most PowerPoint interactive features to the converted DVD video. Besides, it provides a way to burn PowerPoint presentations to HD DVD, like Blu-ray DVD.

Try it now!