11/24/2009

Get Black Friday Video Ads Out of PowerPoint


Crazy sales seem to be the best move to describe Black Friday. Internet, with its rising power in worldwide connection, has been casting a big drive to a boosting Black Friday shopping online. Whether you are a company representative dealing with e-trade or an individual e-storeowner, it's time to seize the opportunity to fight in the best buying time - Black Friday from Thanksgiving to Christmas. As to the marketing strategy, you cannot ignore video, today's most popular media across the Internet, known for its web flexibility and visualization. Video ad is one of the sharpest weapons for your Black Friday business.


You can use a video camera to carve your product ads. However, there is an easy and economic alternative to make a video ad, i.e. to employ the power of MS PowerPoint, a dominant authoring tool for dynamic content creation. You can compose your Black Friday ads with PowerPoint, convert the presentation to video with a PowerPoint to video converter, and post the video ads of your products to your blogs, podcasts, video hosting sites like YouTube, Metacafe, Facebook, MySpace, and etc.


To capture more audience, you'd make a compelling product ad in PowerPoint. That's the first step. Simple as using PowerPoint, there are several tips you'd better pay attention to when building the "visual image" of your product.


Seven tips for creating a successful business PowerPoint presentation


1.Take Professional Business Templates or Backgrounds
It's not for family or friends. It's for selective customers. Use formal business templates/backgrounds instead of those gaudy colors. Click here for free business PowerPoint templates and backgrounds.


2. Simplify Your Ad Theme with Logical Key Points
More phrases, less sentences. That's the key to the simplicity of your Black Friday presentation. List the content of your ad presentation with three to five points. Limit the bullets to less than 6 in each slide.


3. Use Formal Fonts in the Black Friday presentation
To describe your product, use common fonts like Arial, Times New Roman or Verdana, rather than fancy fonts like Comic. Use bold large fonts (36 pts or bigger) for the titles and smaller fonts for the content (usu. no less than 30 pts) so that it can be read on screen when converted to video.


4. More Slides Don't Mean More Profits
Maybe you just want to include more about your products. But you should know it's not the number that matters, it's the shines that your ad gives out. Too many slides will distract rather than keep the audience. You can adjust the slide transitions to figure out an appropriate duration for the video ad, usu. no longer than 5 minutes.


5. Photos and Graphics Worth A Thousand of Words
Product photos or related are necessary to the Black Friday PowerPoint ad. To convey your selling ideas better, you can integrate quality photos, charts or clips relevant with the text. A PowerPoint ad full of text slides is not a real PowerPoint result.


6. Add in Animations and Transitions to Your Ad
A rich range of animations and transitions constitute the dynamic soul of PowerPoint. Sort some for your ad presentation. Note that you should avoid too much of such good effects. Otherwise, it will achieve the opposite to your expectation.


7. Give Some Thought to A Mood Music or Your Voice-cover
As it's going to be a self-running video, you can insert a piece of soundtrack, your very voice narration (if you have a trained voice), or even a movie clip that matches the product ad. Make your ad a cheer or a relief to your customers.


Following the seven tips above, you can make a better business PowerPoint ad. Next, you need to ensure that the PowerPoint ad for Black Friday can play on any computer. To distribute your ad faster and father, finalize in universal video with a tool like Moyea PPT to Video Converter. Click here to see how to convert your Black Friday ad from PowerPoint to video.


Once you get a Black Friday ad video out of PowerPoint, you can upload it to YouTube, copy the embed code to your blogs, Twitter and submit it to many social networking sites for vast traffic.


11/16/2009

Convert PowerPoint to Flash Video (FLV), Easier than You Can Think


PowerPoint, the predominant desktop app to create illustrated document in offices. Flash Video, the beloved of the Web to spread animated document out of office. Many companies and none-profit institutions do appeal to both PowerPoint and flash videos. To make further reach to a presentation, you may consider converting the PowerPoint to flash video (.flv).


Don't have an idea of flash video?


Here's a brief introduction.
Flash video, short for FLV, is a media file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6-10. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files, within which the audio and video data are encoded in the same way. Flash video is viewable on most operating systems, via the widely available Adobe Flash Player and many other third-party players like MPlayer, VLC media player, QuickTime and Moyea Web Player. With small size, flash video has established its name as the choice format for embedded video on the web. It is used by web services like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, metacafe.



What Can You Benefit from converting PowerPoint to Flash Video?



1 1. Be friendlier to your audience. There are much more computers installed with a flash player than a PowerPoint program compatible with yours. That is, your audience will get a quick access to your presentation masterpiece in Flash Video. And, a flash video online is more intuitive than a PowerPoint presentation to download.
2 2. Smaller size makes more sense. A PowerPoint file turned in flash video is much smaller than its original size. A credit to fast web distribution. To insert a presentation to your blog, a web video service like YouTube, you'd better reformat it to such swift FLV file.
3 3. Hassle free from PowerPoint emailing. Many users suffered from emailing a clumsy PowerPoint file to a client or a friend. With the presentation in small flash video via an online web service, they don't have to email it while the viewers won't bother to wait and download.
4 4. Safeguard your presentation work. A PowerPoint file is liable to being stolen by unwanted hands, e.g. your rival companies, with minor modification. When you finalize it in flash video, one cannot edit it with ease. Your content will be safer during web distribution.



What Tool You Need to Convert a PowerPoint presentation to FLV?



When Google or Bing, you may be dazzled by a cluster of programs that claimed to convert PowerPoint to flash video. If you are not to bother to a fussy trial of each program, you can trust me with this dedicated PowerPoint to FLV converter - Moyea PPT4Web Converter. It is one of the pioneer programs that shows proven performance in converting a PowerPoint presentation to flash video without any loss of original effects.

Before the conversion, check your presentation carefully, for instance, the text fonts, the slide transitions, animations, inserted sound or movie clips, until satisfying.


Below comes a short guide of converting PowerPoint to FLV with Moyea PPT4Web.
Step step 1 Install and launch Moyea PPT4Web Converter. Import the PowerPoint file(s) you want to convert to flash video.
Step step 2 Select the output as FLV or any other flash player supported file formats (MP4, MOV, 3G2, 3GP). Customize each output parameter if necessary. You can also follow the Web Player icon link to get a flash player if there isn't one on your local drive.
Step step 3 Click Start to start converting your PowerPoint presentation to Flash Video.


Very simple, isn't it? In a minute or two, you will get a flash video out of your PPT file. Now, it is a snap for you to upload the flash video slideshow on the Web, distribute anywhere possible to reach more audience.


You may also need to
Embed Flash video (FLV) into PowerPoint




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11/10/2009

Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4 Still on 20% Discount, Supports Windows 7 and 23 Video Formats


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Leawo Software Co., Ltd


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Summary: Leawo Software upgrades the on-sale, Windows-7-tested PowerPoint to DVD Burner to Version 3.4 with 23 video output formats supported.



Shenzhen, P.R. China - November 7, 2009 -- Leawo Software (http://www.leawo.com/), an innovative developer and distributor of multimedia shareware as well as freeware, today announced the release of Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4, the 20% off converting tool, being tested on Windows 7 and increasing the video output formats from 13 to 23.


With excellent built-in burning engine, Leawo PowerPoint to DVD burns a dozen of presentations onto a DVD for users to play on a DVD player hooked to TV, or to present on another computer with different OS or even without PowerPoint. It does more than burning PowerPoint to DVD. It creates PowerPoint-based video for presentation users with a view to broadcasting on the Web like YouTube, MySpace, an individual site, and showing on a mobile like iPhone and Blackberry.


Existing feature highlights of Leawo PowerPoint to DVD include:



  • Simple elegant User Interface - Even a novice user can quickly get up with the conversion tool in simple intuitive UI.

  • Themed DVD menu templates - Under the Menu tab, there are a wide range of DVD menu templates for users to remote control a DVD slideshow on TV

  • Lovely slide shifting modes - Two slide-shifting modes: One Slide One Chapter and One Animation One Chapter, accommodate to diverse needs.

  • Logo to brand and protect - A cool Logo feature for users to add in a watermark to personalize and protect the DVD/video presentation from piracy.

  • Retain every dynamic - If a user has a sound, a video clip, animations and transitions in his presentation, he doesn't need to worry about any loss of them, for Leawo PowerPoint to DVD never miss a single effect during conversion.

  • Output to 13 video formats - it converts a PPT file to 13 popular video output formats, e.g. ASF, AVI, DAT, DV, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, TS and VOB and WMV.


New functionalities that wings Leawo PowerPoint to DVD3.4:


* Support Windows 7 - Good news for Windows 7 users is that Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4 has been tested to work fine on it.


* More powerful Video Profile - The new Version 3.4 has 10 new video formats added in, i.e. RM, RA, MKV, MKA, Wii AVI, Wii MOV, NDS DPG, NDS DPG2, NDS DPG3 and NDS DPG4.


* Better encoding on pictures - For a presentation with linked pictures, Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4 has improved audio and video encoders to kill any distortion in graphics.


Another merit for Leawo PowerPoint to DVD lies in its price. As it is still on sale, users can save $20 for converting a PowerPoint presentation to DVD and video, while enjoy an abundant increase of video features.


Price and Availability
Leawo PowerPoint to DVD 3.4 applies to Windows 7, Windows XP/2000/NT/Vista. Each license, regularly at $ 99.95, is now $79.95 (US) per computer. For registered customers, free life-long updates and technical support of the product are granted. More discounts are available to volume buyers of 5 or above.


For more information on the product and the free evaluation copy, explore in the product page http://www.leawo.com/powerpoint-to-dvd/


Links
Product Page: http://www.leawo.com/powerpoint-to-dvd/
Direct Download: http://www.leawo.com/download/powerpoint-to-dvd/leawo_ppt2dvd_setup.exe
Company Website: http://www.leawo.com