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

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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

How to Add an iTunes Sound to PowerPoint Presentation

Add music, add a mood to your PowerPoint presentation. You wanna use a song from iTunes store as background music of the PowerPoint file? Oops, there is a format problem. PowerPoint doesn't accept iTunes music, which is encoded in M4P. You need to make a format alternation before inserting the iTunes sound into your presentation.

Here I will discuss in 2 sections how to convert iTunes music to a PowerPoint-supported audio format, and how to import the converted iTunes sound to PowerPoint 2003/2007.

Section 1 Convert iTunes Music to PowerPoint compatible audio (e.g. MP3)

Mentioning this issue, we should know which sound formats are compatible with PowerPoint.
Audio file formats compatible with PowerPoint 2003/2007 include: AIFF, AU, MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA
Among the sound formats above, MP3 is the most familiar to us, with its small size and good sound quality. So to convert iTunes music to PowerPoint compatible format often means to realize the conversion from M4P to MP3.
Generally, you can try these two ways to convert an iTunes track to MP3 audio format.

Method 1 Burn and Rip the iTunes music to MP3 for PowerPoint

• In the iTunes store, select the track that you want to use in your PowerPoint presentation. Then burn it to an empty CD disk.
• Open the disk with Windows Media Player, and rip music from the CD into a *.wma format. Right click on the track and choose to send to Windows Audio Converter. There you can choose the format as MP3 and save it to a folder.

Method 2 Convert iTunes to MP3 with Third-party Audio Converter

You can also use a third-party audio conversion tool to convert iTunes to MP3.
iTunes to MP3 Conversion software include: TUNEBITE Platinum, SoundTaxi Converter, 5star freeTunes, and AppleMacSoft DRM Converter for Mac
Choose one that fits to your system, and convert the iTunes M4P to PowerPoint-ready MP3.

Note: iTunes music files (M4P - "protected AAC") have DRM protection which prevent users from converting it to other formats or adding iTunes songs to PowerPoint presentation directly. To insert iTunes music to PowerPoint slide show as background music, you will need to remove DRM protection from iTunes Music and convert iTunes to MP3 for PowerPoint first.

Section 2 Import converted iTunes music to your PowerPoint presentation

Now, it's time to insert the iTunes MP3 sound to your PowerPoint presentation. Follow these steps:

a. Go to the slide where you want to add the iTunes MP3 sound. Select Insert -> Movies and Sounds -> Sound from File to insert the sound file from your local drive. Click OK.

b. Then you will see a message pop up asking how you want the sound to start in slide shows. Click Automatically.

For more about adding a MP3 file to PowerPoint, see in How to Set Background Music for PowerPoint

To play the iTunes music across all the slides, explore in How to Play a Sound across Multiple Slides in PowerPoint

To extract an iTunes MP3 sound from PowerPoint, take the audio video mix Moyea PPT to Video Converter

How to Add an iTunes Sound to PowerPoint Presentation

Add music, add a mood to your PowerPoint presentation. You wanna use a song from iTunes store as background music of the PowerPoint file? Oops, there is a format problem. PowerPoint doesn't accept iTunes music, which is encoded in M4P. You need to make a format alternation before inserting the iTunes sound into your presentation.

Here I will discuss in 2 sections how to convert iTunes music to a PowerPoint-supported audio format, and how to import the converted iTunes sound to PowerPoint 2003/2007.

Section 1 Convert iTunes Music to PowerPoint compatible audio (e.g. MP3)

Mentioning this issue, we should know which sound formats are compatible with PowerPoint.
Audio file formats compatible with PowerPoint 2003/2007 include: AIFF, AU, MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA
Among the sound formats above, MP3 is the most familiar to us, with its small size and good sound quality. So to convert iTunes music to PowerPoint compatible format often means to realize the conversion from M4P to MP3.
Generally, you can try these two ways to convert an iTunes track to MP3 audio format.

Method 1 Burn and Rip the iTunes music to MP3 for PowerPoint

• In the iTunes store, select the track that you want to use in your PowerPoint presentation. Then burn it to an empty CD disk.
• Open the disk with Windows Media Player, and rip music from the CD into a *.wma format. Right click on the track and choose to send to Windows Audio Converter. There you can choose the format as MP3 and save it to a folder.

Method 2 Convert iTunes to MP3 with Third-party Audio Converter

You can also use a third-party audio conversion tool to convert iTunes to MP3.
iTunes to MP3 Conversion software include: TUNEBITE Platinum, SoundTaxi Converter, 5star freeTunes, and AppleMacSoft DRM Converter for Mac
Choose one that fits to your system, and convert the iTunes M4P to PowerPoint-ready MP3.

Note: iTunes music files (M4P - "protected AAC") have DRM protection which prevent users from converting it to other formats or adding iTunes songs to PowerPoint presentation directly. To insert iTunes music to PowerPoint slide show as background music, you will need to remove DRM protection from iTunes Music and convert iTunes to MP3 for PowerPoint first.

Section 2 Import converted iTunes music to your PowerPoint presentation

Now, it's time to insert the iTunes MP3 sound to your PowerPoint presentation. Follow these steps:

a. Go to the slide where you want to add the iTunes MP3 sound. Select Insert -> Movies and Sounds -> Sound from File to insert the sound file from your local drive. Click OK.

b. Then you will see a message pop up asking how you want the sound to start in slide shows. Click Automatically.

For more about adding a MP3 file to PowerPoint, see in How to Set Background Music for PowerPoint

To play the iTunes music across all the slides, explore in How to Play a Sound across Multiple Slides in PowerPoint

To extract an iTunes MP3 sound from PowerPoint, take the audio video mix Moyea PPT to Video Converter

Enhance E-learning with MS PowerPoint, DVD, Video & PDF

Still wondering how to draw those idle-minded students back from a carefree summer holiday? Integrating your class with multimedia technology should be a wise practice. To engage new and returning students in this new school year, use MS PowerPoint to plan your class presentation and finalize it in DVD, Video or PDF to enhance e-learning content distribution.

Plan a lecture in PowerPoint
You can utilize Microsoft PowerPoint for a rapid creation of lecture presentation that is dynamic with animations, art clips, pictures, tables, sounds, video clips and more. If you are at a loss when coming to how to make a good class presentation, get an idea here in "Create and Distribute a Class PowerPoint Presentation", or find out more tips at MS Office At School Resources. As to class PowerPoint template, collect some classic packs from this Free Education PowerPoint Templates. Whether it is a literary story or a new science lesson, the smart authoring tool can help make an engaging learning experience for students in the classroom. Unfortunately, a lecture presentation in PowerPoint is not friendly to remote distribution or after-class communication. To share your course ideas better with eager students, you have to shape it to a more accessible media format such as DVD, video and PDF that are more flexible for cross platform use.

Enhance it by performing one of the following:

Burn the PowerPoint course presentation to DVD
Many teachers and lecturers have such a suffering experience: A sudden strike of their course presentation occurs when delivering on a different computer. That is because PowerPoint is fragile in transferring from a machine to another. Therefore, if you are to carry a Windows-based course presentation to a Mac, or to deliver it on a DVD player attached to TV for a small group, burn the course stuff to a DVD disc using reliable burning software like Moyea PPT to DVD Burner.

Benefits of burning the course presentation to DVD:

• Avoid playback failure on the end-machine due to absence of matching PowerPoint
  Prevent any loss of PowerPoint elements like sounds and movie clips in transferring
  Safeguard your own course work away from unwanted copying or modifying by others
  Archive course presentations in a safe standalone way for reuse in future
  

Convert the PowerPoint course presentation to video

In this era of Web 2.0 and E-Learning 2.0, you cannot ignore the growing popularity of online education via a rich set of social networks like blog, chat room, forum, podcast, etc. To track students' digestion of a course, i.e., the final effect of a course presentation, you can finalize the course material in video and share it via the Internet. Compared with bloated PowerPoint, video is a better format that is easier, safer and more popular for web distribution. Put the video course to your teaching blog or any shared group, inviting the students to join and leave a comment so that you can get more interactive with them and improve the next lesson according to their feedbacks. For quick video creation out of your course presentation, Moyea PPT to Video Converter can help.
Click here to get a grasp of how to insert a PowerPoint video to your blog.

Save the PowerPoint course content to PDF
Apart from the above video or DVD extension of your course presentation, this Save to PDF mean a static preserve of your course presentation. Though animations and other dynamic effects in the original get lost once saved to PDF, the compact format brings a real ease in delivering your course content via email to share with your students.

If you are a PowerPoint 2007 user, you can save the course presentation straight to PDF. Microsoft provides a free Save as PDF or XPS add-in on its official website. After you download and install that Publish As PDF add-in, you can save your course stuff to PDF as email attachment. What if you use an earlier version like Office 2003? Then take Moyea PPT to PDF Converter (applies to MS Office 2000 and above) to generate a PDF copy of your course.

Integrated with modern multimedia technology, the PowerPoint-based e-Learning software tools reinforce the accessibility and reusability of your course content anywhere and at any place.

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Install and active the software to convert your PowerPoint presentation to a slick DVD movie capable on TV, or a smooth video supportable by the Web. The PowerPoint to DVD and video converter aids you to

* Watch your business presentation on big-screen TV using a DVD player
* Deliver your business PowerPoint stuff conveniently to customers
* Enjoy personal PowerPoint slideshow on TV with family and friends
* View your PPT essentials on iPod, iPhone, Zune and other portables
* Share your PowerPoint wit worldwide via YouTube or else video sites

Here is some key features of Moyea PPT To DVD Burner:

* Convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD
* Convert PowerPoint to Video formats
* Allow playing PowerPoint with One animation one chapter
* Allow playing PowerPoint with One slide one chapter
* Allow adding watermark on output video or DVD
* Record voice as the narrations and instructions for the outputs
* Retain the original music, animation, movie clips, and slide transitions in PowerPoint presentations
* Delicately designed theme DVD menus to navigate your audiences
* No limitation on the PowerPoint files for conversion (Support PowerPoint 2007)
* Insert background music to PPT files
* PowerPoint to DVD batch process supported
* Flexible output settings for different screen sizes
* Perfect synchronization of sound and animation
* Faster PowerPoint to DVD conversion and Clearer output DVD files
* Built-in burning engine enables you burn PPT to DVD fluently, without third-party burning software

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How to Burn PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) to CD or DVD

Many a time, there are people on Yahoo Answers asking this question: how to burn/convert a PowerPoint presentation for a coming anniversary, business event, class or commencement to CD/DVD? They want the PPT presentation, often containing vibrant elements like animation, transition, music or movie clips, to keep complete when burning to a CD or DVD as it was.

The answer to the question depends on where the PowerPoint presentation is going to playback.

1. Suppose the terminal remains a computer.

You would not email a PowerPoint file because there is no Internet connection on the computer where you are going to deliver it, or because you are afraid of data loss during emailing. Instead, you would consider a safer way - save all the data in the PowerPoint file to a CD and move it to another computer where you will deliver it. In that case, you can try one of these methods:

a) Take MS PowerPoint "Package for CD" (in Office 2007) or "Pack and Go" (in Office 2003)

The "Package for CD" or "Pack and Go" feature allows you to copy your presentation, whether including audio or video or hyperlink files or not, together with a Microsoft Office PPT PowerPoint Viewer to an optical disk like CD and DVD, a USB flash drive or a network location. The presentation copied to CD or DVD is good for distributing to a computer that running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later even without PowerPoint. However, if you use the Package feature to transfer a presentation to a computer with OS other than that, e.g. an earlier Windows 98 OS, or a different Mac OS, then a compatibility problem may occur. To avoid that problem, try to

b) Convert the PowerPoint file to video and connect it to CD
Video is a universal format that accommodates to any computer, whatever an earlier Windows or a Mac. For an extensive access of your presentation, you may turn it to CD-video using the professional conversion program Moyea PPT to Video Converter.
The total conversion is a three-step process: Launch the PowerPoint to video program and input the presentation(s) to convert, select the output format to "Video-CD Format (*.dat)", and start the conversion.

A minute or two, you can get a CD-ready video retaining all the original PowerPoint elements, completed with animations, sounds and movie clips. Then connect the video to a CD so that you can take it to any computer with ease.

2. Suppose the end-device of your presentation is a CD player or a DVD player attached to TV.
A CD/DVD player cannot play a PowerPoint file. If you would like to reuse a favorite music file from a PowerPoint presentation for playback on a CD player, you need to extract the audio and record to a CD. If you want to share an amazing presentation with family or friends on a big screen TV, you have to convert it to an appreciate format - DVD. Because even if you copy the presentation to a DVD using the mentioned Pack and Go feature, the DVD presentation won't play on a DVD player, for it is only a data DVD that only applies to a computer. To play the presentation on a DVD player attached to TV, you should turn it to a real video DVD that supportable.

To make such a video DVD, you can rely on a screen recorder like Camtasia Studio. Alternatively, take Moyea PPT to DVD Burner, a dedicated PowerPoint to DVD converter with more competitive price and effective performance. It is a mix of dual use - aids to burn PowerPoint to DVD and to convert PowerPoint to video (including audio extracting). The PowerPoint to DVD and video converter features a 100% preserve of original animations, transitions, sounds and movie clips, a variety of DVD menus for remote control on screen, a free insertion of watermarks, sound tracks and voice narrations, and a built-in burning engine to burn a presentation onto a DVD.

Below is a brief how-to of the PPT to DVD burner.
I. Download and install Moyea PPT to DVD Burner on your computer. After installation, run it and import the PowerPoint file to convert.
II. Go to Options, and do one of the following:

• To extract the audio from your presentation or create a video copy of the presentation for playback on a CD player, select the Convert to Video file option. Go to Burn, click Start to begin extracting the audio from the presentation.


• To burn the presentation to DVD for playback on a DVD player attached to TV, set the output to Create Standard DVD or Create High Definition DVD as required. In the Menu tab, select a proper DVD menu for later screen display. Go to Music, if you would like to add a sound track for the presentation on DVD. Proceed to Logo to add your own logo for the DVD presentation. Jump to Burn, click Start to burn the presentation to DVD.
  III. For the generated audio file, record it to a CD with a third-party CD recorder. For the DVD output, you can get the final work on a disc if you have a DVD writer installed on your PC. Otherwise, use a third-party burning program to burn the DVD image files created to a disc.
  

Now it is easier for you to share and distribute a PowerPoint presentation via CD/DVD.

A Concise Collection of PowerPoint to Video Solutions

Having problem in sharing a stunning PowerPoint presentation with your groups via the Internet? This guy fails to open your masterpiece because he has no PowerPoint installed on his PC; that girl cannot get a full view of your presentation - sounds lost, 3D effects disabled, for she uses a lower version of PowerPoint. So why not consider converting the PowerPoint stuff to video? You know, the universal format video is your best bet for distributing a presentation that almost anyone can playback on any computer, no matter a Mac or a Windows.

The coming question is,

How to convert a PowerPoint presentation to video?

When you Google, you may find a wealth of solutions to transferring PowerPoint to video. Here I sum up the PowerPoint-video solutions in 3 simple categories.

• 1. Conversion Software like Moyea PPT to Video Converter


• 2. Screen Recorders like Camtasia Studio & Adobe Captivate


• 3. Microsoft Related - Windows Movie Maker, Photo Story 3 & Quick Time Movie in Mac PowerPoint

Now we are forwarding to the conversion details of each solution.

1. Conversion Software like Moyea PPT to Video Converter

Many third-party shareware can assist you in converting a PowerPoint presentation to a video. Take Moyea PPT to Video Converter for example. Moyea PPT to Video Converter is an efficient program that can convert your PowerPoint presentations to videos like AVI, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV, 3GP and 3G2 in the truest manner. The converter can retain all the original components including animations and sounds from PowerPoint to video, making it a comfort to upload the presentation to YouTube, blogs and podcasts and to view it on your iPod, iPhone and Blackberry.

To convert a PowerPoint presentation to video with Moyea PPT to Video, do these three steps:

Step 1 - Install the PowerPoint to video converter and import the presentation(s) that you want to convert.

Step 2 - Select a proper output format. You can also customize parameters for the output video as necessary.

Step 3 - Click "Start" to convert the presentation to video.

2. Screen Recorders like Camtasia Studio & Adobe Captivate

Screen recording software can also help creating a video from your PowerPoint presentation.

I. Camtasia Studio 6.1

A popular program for that job is Camtasia Studio 6.1 from TechSmith. Do the following:

Download and install Camtasia Studio on your local computer.

Open the program, and select Record PowerPoint in the Task List. MS PowerPoint prompts up. Open the PowerPoint presentation to record. Set the recording options from the PowerPoint Add-in Toolbar. Then click the red Record button to enter the presentation. Click the "Click to begin recording" button. When finish recording, specify a name and location and save as *.camrec file.

Next, continue to edit the recording. Select the slide size, arrange the transitions, add effects, or edit audios.

Last, produce a video in a sharable format (WMV, MOV, AVI…)

II. Adobe Captivate 4

Another video capturing application is Adobe Captivate 4.

Download and install Adobe Captive 4 on your computer. Open the program, in the main interface, click From MS PowerPoint in the Create Project tab to select a PowerPoint file to convert.

Customize the new PowerPoint project by adding an audio file, redefine a slide timeline, set video quality, etc. Click OK to start converting the file to SWF.

You can edit the slides in the left Slide Tasks panel. Once ready, click the Publish ribbon to enter the Publish interface. In the prompt up, select Media, set the media type as "Video (*. avi)" and type a title for the video project.

The SWF to AVI conversion starts. Finally, you will get an AVI video based on your presentation.

Limitation: Adobe Captive 4 converts a PowerPoint presentation to AVI only. If you want to convert it to other video formats, it won't help.

3. Microsoft Related - Windows Movie Maker, Photo Story 3 and Save As MOV in Mac PowerPoint

Microsoft provides some supplements that can aid in making a PowerPoint video. Let's have a look:

A. Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker is free for Windows XP or Vista users. It lets you create a home movie out of texts and images.

To make a video from PowerPoint, you need to save all the slides in your presentation as like *.jpg or *.png. Go to Office (in PowerPoint 2007) or File (in PowerPoint 97-2003)-> Save As -> Other Formats, in the popup Save As box, select the type to either of the above graphical formats. Then choose to export every slide as the specified picture format.

A folder containing the exported slides with the same name of the original presentation is generated. Open Windows Movie Maker, and import the separate slides to collections one by one. After that, drag all the imported slide images and drop to Storyboard. If you wish, right click a slide image to add video effects for it.

Finally, go back to the File menu, and save the slide collection as movie file.

Note - all the dynamic effects (like audio or video clips) in the original presentation are lost in the generated movie.

B. Microsoft Photo Story 3

Microsoft Photo Story 3 is only free available for Windows XP users. If you are a qualified user for this, then download and install Photo Story 3 for Windows on your PC. Similar to that in Windows Movie Maker, you have to save each single slide to *.jpg or *.png for Photo Story 3. Then import the pictures to the program, edit it by adding a title, an effect, a narration, or background music for output video.

Once it is ready, proceed to the output type. It will be generated to a video in WMV. You can save the WMV file for playback on your computer, in Email, or for playback on a pocket PC or a Smartphone with Windows Media Player 10 Mobile.

Again, all the animated elements including audios, movie clips and transitions in the source PowerPoint presentation won't appear in the WMV file.

C. QuickTime movie for Mac PowerPoint

For Mac PowerPoint users, there is a "Make Movie" (QuickTime Movie) feature. Actually, the movie is a slide show that can run on any application that supports QuickTime movies. Also, note that transitions in the original presentation may play differently in the QuickTime movie, and that animations will be completely missing in the movie. You'd better re-save it with QuickTime Pro.

From PowerPoint to video, your presentation has become more accessible on Internet and on the go with such a wide selection of convenient software applications. Easy job, enjoy it!

Live Web Show of PowerPoint Presentations

Is it possible to show a PowerPoint presentation living on the web? Not just a set of static slide images without any effect what a PowerPoint presentation appears on SlideShare. I would like the presentation looks and plays on the web as the way it has been made, remaining every animated element like narration, sound, wipe and movie clip. So I can still share with groups afar without a face-to-face given.

- Joe Black

MS PowerPoint is a good friend to most people in the modern 21st century. The great authoring tool let us make dynamic presentations stretched to fields of a variety, e.g., in business the presentations on product promotion, sales reports, corporate meetings; in education the presentations on class courses, student homework and remote e-Learning stuff; and in government the presentations on civil conference, official election and public events. Files of PowerPoint, however, are often too bloated to be friendly to the web, hard to preserve live components like animations and wipes after a straight uploading to a website.

So what is the perfect practice for displaying a lively presentation on the web?

The perfect should not be called a perfect unless it
- Conveys complete of components in a PowerPoint presentation
- Makes a presentation convenient to be viewed but difficult to be stolen

What is that perfect that is beloved of the Web 2.0 nowadays? Video is the answer. We search videos on Google, and watch videos on YouTube. The key is to make a PowerPoint presentation run like a seamless video. Actually, the PowerPoint presentation can evolve into a stream video provided with a simple tool called PPT4Web Converter (also PowerPoint to FLV Converter). This software application, right for web expansion of PowerPoint presentations, is easy to use and smart to convert a batch of PPT files to web-ready flash videos. And the most important, it can create a flash video that syncs the whole staff of PowerPoint, not a bit loss of your favorite sound or narration or cute movie clip.

Here is a brief guide of using this PowerPoint to FLV converter:
i. Download and install the .exe file of the PPT to FLV converter.
ii. When it is running, add in the PowerPoint file(s) that you want to convert to web-ready flash video.
iii. Click "Start" once everything is set OK.

Click here to see a detailed tutorial of converting PowerPoint to FLV

Then, in a minute or two, you will get a flash video safer and smaller, recording every subtlety of the original PowerPoint presentation. Next, it is an ease to upload the video presentation to the web, such as video communities like YouTube and forums, personal web pages like blogs and podcasts. Be sure that a Web player is installed at the website where the live PowerPoint presentation is to be showed up.

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Create and Distribute a Class PowerPoint Presentation (II)

Creating a good PowerPoint presentation is the first step. Remember to practice over and over your class PowerPoint presentation until to a perfect extent. The next thing is distribution of the class presentation. How to distribute it depends on several factors, where the class PowerPoint presentation is made, where it is going to display, and how many students or classmates will attend to your class, etc.

I have mentioned in my previous post (Section I) how to make a fine class PowerPoint presentation, now I am to share with you how to distribute a PowerPoint masterpiece in the following Section II.

Section II: Distribute a Sound Class PowerPoint Presentation

1. Save your class PowerPoint file on the same computer
If your class presentation is created at and is to be distributed with the same computer (usu. your laptop), then simply leave it there. But by this method, you may run on certain risks of the vulnerable PowerPoint - computer corruption, Internet disconnection, and virus attacks. Many people do that, however, it is not recommended, especially when your class PowerPoint presentation is of critical importance.

2. Simply e-mail your class PowerPoint file
It is a PowerPoint presentation of homework, and you are required to email to your teacher's account for review. In that case, simply e-mail the presentation.

Note -

• Don't email a class presentation unless you are sure that the recipient use the same OS (don't email from a PC to a Mac), the same version or later of PowerPoint program. Some people don't have MS PowerPoint installed on their computers, nor do they have a proper PowerPoint Viewer to read your class presentation.


• Don't forget to include the whole PowerPoint components (the presentation itself, the sound file, the video file if there is any) in the same folder before zipping it to email. Otherwise, the sounds or video clips embedded in your class presentation will not play on the recipient's computer.


• And don't email your class PowerPoint presentation if you are afraid of unwanted modification by others.

3. Save your class PowerPoint content to video

For an online class, you can apply this simple but effective means - save your class PowerPoint content to video, which is more flexible for Web share. When your class PowerPoint content is finalized in protective video, you can email it with comfort or upload it to your website, blog, MySpace, or YouTube, and invite your students or classmates to join in. Nevertheless, finalize your PowerPoint presentation in video first, using some excellent conversion software like PowerPoint to Video Converter

4. Save your class PowerPoint presentation onto a DVD disc

If you are to take your PowerPoint presentation from home to school, consider burning or saving it to a DVD disc. A DVD backup is a wise relief from your vulnerable PowerPoint presentation. You will neither suffer from such computer risks as computer corruption, virus attacks that may occur by Method 1, nor bother to any version trouble or cross-platform inability as may happen by Method 2. An additional benefit of this PowerPoint to DVD method is that you can play your class PowerPoint at a DVD player on big screen TV, just like a professional movie.
Software to burn your class PowerPoint to sleek DVD: PowerPoint to DVD Burner

5. Save your class PowerPoint file as PDF
As to printing and reprinting, you can save your class PowerPoint as PDF. Before taking this means, you should make sure your recipient has Acrobat Reader or else PDF viewer on his/her computer. If your class presentation is composed on MS PowerPoint 2007, you can save it direct to PDF since there is a Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for 2007. You can also use a standalone conversion app, e.g. PowerPoint to PDF Converter, to turn your class presentation into organized PDF. Save as PDF, and give a PDF copy to each attendant, when you intend to deliver your class presentation with full sense.

Voila. The remarkable teaching aid PowerPoint deserves your effort and taste. Take all the tips here on class presentation creation and distribution, and make full use of PowerPoint to improve your teaching.

Get More Traffic from YouTube with PowerPoint

YouTube, now the world's largest free video hosting site, is also a great tool for E-marketing. When mentioned a video, the first idea that flashes in most minds is nothing but the all-mighty YouTube. You know every day, there are millions of netizens surfing on YouTube, the heaven of videos, to search, watch, share, upload or download a favorite clip. If you have a website, and an account on YouTube, you would probably gain a great traffic from that to your site. YouTube's free video sharing along with the enormous network of visitors is a perfect consideration to promote products and services on your site.

Then how to maximize the traffic of your website by a free video ad on YouTube? Here are a set of useful tricks for you:

First of all, create a definite video with PowerPoint.

You can use a digital camera to capture some pictures or video clips. Furthermore, you can take MS PowerPoint, which hosts a dazzling collection of animated effects, to make a video advertisement that is more amazing and organized. I see many PowerPoint generated videos posted on YouTube, some with a logo of a brand, some with a site URL at the end, some even embedded with a movie clip, and they look the same professional yet more creative. And you can try this innovation of video making. Personally, I recommend you try some reliable conversion software (like Moyea PowerPoint to Video Converter to brief the process from PowerPoint to video.

OK. Let's go back to the very content of video ad making. Pay attention to these:

1. Name the video nice.

Think before compose on PowerPoint. What is the objective of this video presentation? What is an appropriate name for the video ad? How can it capture your potential customers at the first sight? Things like that do deserve your careful analysis. A nice name that is informative and has good rank in Google (and other search engines like Yahoo, MSN live) will work wonder. Exercise your imagination to make an eye-catching name for your YouTube video. The key is to get your audience involved. You can use an interrogative beginning with "What" or "How" or anything attractive to arouse their curiosity.

2. Use right PowerPoint template.

You should know the preference of your target audience first. If your video slide show is targeted at professionals, then take a formal PowerPoint template rather than a casual one. If it is for kids and youngsters, you can pick up a cool colorful tune.
Google one at the Internet, like Free PowerPoint Template Download, or make a distinctive template yourself.

3. Organize the message in your presentation.

Specify a focus of your video ad. Then try to give clear and concise description of the focus. Take advantage of the animations and wipes in PowerPoint. In addition, you can insert some relevant photos, sounds, clip arts, or even movie clips to colorize your presentation. Before finalizing it to video, check the whole presentation and see if it contains the very message you want to convey.

4. End the video with a teaser trailer writing your site URL.

The video is made to increase visits of your website. While promotional info that is too obvious in the video may cause a force-out from YouTube, you can put a subtle teaser trailer, writing the URL of your website at the end of the video. This will bring more chances to publicize your site.

5. Trim the video slide show within 5 minutes.
Don't test the patience of your audience. No matter how perfect the content is, an over-long video show will weary its viewers. Measure the timing (slide transitions) in your presentation, and ensure it is no more than 5 minutes in total.

6. Watermark the video with your company/site logo.

Add a watermark on each slide to identify yourself, brand your company or site, and protect your video slide show from prying hands.

After your ad PowerPoint presentation converted to video, you can forward to

The second step - upload the video ad to YouTube with your account.

Put your video on YouTube and just leave it there? No, never stop unless you don't expect a winning traffic from it!

There is still a lot of work to do for a satisfying achievement. Run your brains to make your video one of the top on YouTube. Only does your YouTube video win a sound stance among SERPs (Search Engine Results Page), can it attract more traffic to your relevant website.

Here follows several tips for increasing visits of your YouTube video:

a. Post your YouTube video to all the blogs, Podcasts, websites of yours and others. Link it to anywhere available. Exact practice: copy the Embed code of your YouTube video to where you want to insert.
b. Email it to all your friends and clients. YouTube allows such "Email to a friend" action. The more, the better.

OK. Just try your best to promote your video ad on YouTube. Never give up, even it is not that satisfying at first. Good luck!

Send PowerPoint Presentations in Video or DVD Movie

Convert PowerPoint to video or DVD movie for an ideal distribution of presentations

You may get crabby this experience. You made a presentation with MS PowerPoint, perhaps 2003, perhaps 2007. You sent it to a friend or a client. However, it fails to work with the recipient. A couple of reasons may explain why he/she cannot view the presentation of your great efforts:

• Version difference or viewer absence - The recipient has neither PowerPoint 2003/2007 installed, nor is he/she bothered to install a viewer for the source PowerPoint program. • Cross-platform incompatibility - Your presentation was made on a Windows operating system while he/she uses a Mac.

Another problem is, you don't want your PowerPoint stuff to be modified by others, simply to show it in full look to someone. Is it possible of that? Virtually, it is very simple. The secret lies in a slight change in format, i.e. convert your PowerPoint presentation to video or DVD movie using PowerPoint to DVD (Or PowerPoint to Video for a sole video presentation). While video and DVD movie are made in a format independent of any software, hardware, and operating systems, any recipient with a computer or a DVD player can open and read the your video or movie slideshow.

The next is, how to burn the PowerPoint presentation to DVD or convert the PPT to video?

• If you want to take your presentation to someone, then you'd better burn it onto a DVD disc with the mentioned PowerPoint to DVD burner.

a. Download and install Moyea PPT to DVD Burner. Make sure there is a blank DVD disc in your PC. b. When it is running, import your presentation. Select the output to Standard or HD DVD. Customize the output DVD options like menus and logos if necessary.

c. Click Burn to start converting PowerPoint to DVD.

Now you can draw out the DVD disc writing with your PowerPoint content. The PowerPoint movie can go with you to any person of a visit, and play independently on any computer or TV with a DVD player.

• If you are to email the presentation or share on YouTube, MySpace or likewise, simply convert it to video using the dedicated Moyea PPT to Video Converter. Do the following:

a. First, download and install Moyea PPT to Video Converter. b. Second, click Import to add in your presentation. Adjust the video output to a proper one in accordance with the end-device, e.g. AVI, FLV, WMV, 3GP, etc. Make custom settings of the output video options if possible. c. Click Convert to start converting PowerPoint to video.

OK. Email the PowerPoint video as an attachment, post it to a supported website like YouTube, or connect to a portable device like Blackberry, iPod, iPhone, etc. The video presentation of your wit can reach anyone on the Internet or Intranet, or anyone you meet on the go.

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DVD and video Photo Albums for Mother's Day

The second Sunday of May is Mother’s Day, a special occasion for mothers, grandmothers and mothers-to-be, the greatest group nurturing and raising our families. Are you ready to present our honorable mothers with the warmest wish? You may gift your mom a cute card, a thankful poem, a banquet of flowers or anything that caters to her. Serve her a delicious dinner, and tidy the house to leave mother a light break.

Apart from the above gift ideas, you can also do something creative – i.e. make a DVD or video photo album for the special day using PowerPoint. Photos of your beloved mom deserve a careful collection in PowerPoint and delightful display on TV or Web to rejoice all the family staff with sweet memories.

Before the very beginning of Mother’s Day DVD photo album, ensure you have the following three items:

I. Digital photos of your mother’s or the family’s

II. Music to background the PowerPoint photo album

III. Moyea PPT to DVD Burner

Sample video of Mother’s Day photo album

Next, do the following steps to make a DVD or video photo album for dear mama.

1. Import and edit the Mother’s Day photos in PowerPoint.

a. Create a new PowerPoint slideshow (*.pps, or *.ppsx). Here we take 2007 MS PowerPoint as an example.

b. Open the PPSX file, and select the Insert tab. In the Illustrations group, click the Photo Album icon to import the photos from your local drive.

c. Insert the background music of Mother’s Day and set as “Play across Slides”. Animate and add word illustrations to each photo slide.

d. You can also use the Record function to narrate for the Mother’s Day slideshow.

2. Input into PowerPoint to DVD Burner for a video or DVD slideshow.

a. Install Moyea PPT to DVD Burner on your PC or notebook. Run it and import the Mother’s Day slideshow (*.pptx).

b. In the Options tab, select the output as DVD or Video as necessary.

c. Make custom settings like logos, DVD menus for the output slideshow. Otherwise, simply click Burn to convert the slideshow to DVD or video.

Now you can connect the DVD or video photo album to a TV or a video hosting site to share with your family on Mother’s Day this May.

DVD and video Photo Albums for Mother's Day

The second Sunday of May is Mother’s Day, a special occasion for mothers, grandmothers and mothers-to-be, the greatest group nurturing and raising our families. Are you ready to present our honorable mothers with the warmest wish? You may gift your mom a cute card, a thankful poem, a banquet of flowers or anything that caters to her. Serve her a delicious dinner, and tidy the house to leave mother a light break.

Apart from the above gift ideas, you can also do something creative – i.e. make a DVD or video photo album for the special day using PowerPoint. Photos of your beloved mom deserve a careful collection in PowerPoint and delightful display on TV or Web to rejoice all the family staff with sweet memories.

Before the very beginning of Mother’s Day DVD photo album, ensure you have the following three items:

I. Digital photos of your mother’s or the family’s

II. Music to background the PowerPoint photo album

III. Moyea PPT to DVD Burner

Sample video of Mother’s Day photo album

Next, do the following steps to make a DVD or video photo album for dear mama.

1. Import and edit the Mother’s Day photos in PowerPoint.

a. Create a new PowerPoint slideshow (*.pps, or *.ppsx). Here we take 2007 MS PowerPoint as an example.

b. Open the PPSX file, and select the Insert tab. In the Illustrations group, click the Photo Album icon to import the photos from your local drive.

c. Insert the background music of Mother’s Day and set as “Play across Slides”. Animate and add word illustrations to each photo slide.

d. You can also use the Record function to narrate for the Mother’s Day slideshow.

2. Input into PowerPoint to DVD Burner for a video or DVD slideshow.

a. Install Moyea PPT to DVD Burner on your PC or notebook. Run it and import the Mother’s Day slideshow (*.pptx).

b. In the Options tab, select the output as DVD or Video as necessary.

c. Make custom settings like logos, DVD menus for the output slideshow. Otherwise, simply click Burn to convert the slideshow to DVD or video.

Now you can connect the DVD or video photo album to a TV or a video hosting site to share with your family on Mother’s Day this May.

YouTube and PowerPoint: Embed YouTube video into PowerPoint & Put PowerPoint presentation onto YouTube

As one of the largest websites, YouTube is now the first place on the Internet to find various news videos and clips, and has proved to be a wonderful reservoir of valuable videos at this media-saturated era.

Have you ever thought of downloading a YouTube video to embed in your PowerPoint presentation, or uploading a PowerPoint-based video to YouTube for the world to share? I dare say most of you have. Here, I will give a two-way introduction to how to make an interactive use of YouTube and PowerPoint.

Section I

How to embed YouTube videos into the PowerPoint presentations?

An embedded video relevant to your subject is no doubt a great credit to your PowerPoint presentation, which not only makes you seem more professional but adds fun to capture the audience.

To get a YouTube video embedded in your PPT presentation, you can take either of these methods:

Method 1 Copy the Embed code of the YouTube video into PowerPoint presentation

It is the most straightforward among all the methods of putting a YouTube video into PowerPoint. Note that you should ensure that you have the latest Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer prior to this method.

Simply copy the Embed code of the YouTube video (as seen in "Embedded" field) that you want to use for your presentation and save it on a notepad.

In the PowerPoint file, go to the Developer ribbon and click the "More Controls…" icon.

In the prompt-up More Controls dialog, choose the option Shockwave Flash Object and click OK.

Next, go to the slide with the Shockwave Flash Object box, and right click the cross-lined box to select the Properties option. Then copy the video embed code from the notepad and enter it into the Value column of the Movie item in the Properties interface. That's it!

For more details of this YouTube into PowerPoint method, refer to the very tip How to Play YouTube Video in PowerPoint Presentations

IMPORTANT: The URL insertion is subject to Internet connection. In another word, the embedded YouTube video would not play in your presentation should your computer be out of Web connection.

Method 2 Convert YouTube videos to compatible MPEG, AVI, MOV or WMV for PowerPoint

As YouTube videos are encoded in FLV, a format that is not accepted by MS PowerPoint, they must be converted to a PowerPoint-compatible format like MPEG, AVI, MOV or WMV prior to inserting.

In this method, what you need is something like a video converter to convert FLV to WMV or other PowerPoint supported video formats. You can find a sea of such software apps, e.g. YouTube downloader and Online FLV Converter, most of which are free. These software programs usually work similar in principle. First you have to download and install such a converter, then copy the YouTube video URL to the related field of the converter for download. After the video file is downloaded, use the converter again to select an appropriate video format that you want to convert to. Finally, save the converted video file to you local drive, and then embed the YouTube video into your PowerPoint presentation.

The method require a third-party medium, yet it is not bad a choice in case of the network trouble.

Section II

How to convert PowerPoint presentations to YouTube videos?

In Section I, we have mentioned how to embed a YouTube video into PowerPoint presentations. Now, we are to introduce the other side of the coin: how to convert a delicate PPT file to FLV (Flash Video) for showing on YouTube.

PowerPoint presentations including a rich collection of animations are also excellent source of a vivid video. To create a video out of PowerPoint is of less cost and of more fun than of a digital camera. Here follows two major ways of converting a PPT presentation to YouTube video.

(i) Free Windows Movie Maker

It is a free video creating program developed by Microsoft for Windows. To make a movie with the software, you have to first save your presentation as a pile of JEPG pictures, and then input the picture album to the movie maker. Although sounds are allowed to add in for a dynamic effect, there's an obvious fault in the free program - it is unable to retain the full animations from the original presentation.

(ii) Moyea PPT to Video Converter

This is a smart solution for converting PowerPoint presentations to any format of video, no except to the popular YouTube video. Most of all, it is able to preserve every subtlety of your PowerPoint presentation in the YouTube video, just at an affordable $49.95.

There are two tutorials on the PowerPoint to YouTube video converter. Click to have a look at:

Video Tutorial of Converting PowerPoint Presentation to YouTube Video

Documental Tutorial of Converting PowerPoint Presentation to YouTube Video

After conversion, you will find it a cinch to watch and share your PowerPoint slideshow on YouTube.

Enjoy the amusement of flexible conversion between the magnificent PowerPoint slideshow and YouTube video.

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Get images and sounds from PowerPoint for reuse

When you get a PowerPoint presentation embedded with nice images and sounds, you may want to extract those delicacies for separate reuse elsewhere, e.g. in another presentation, in your blog or podcast, etc.

Then how do you extract the sounds and images from a targeted PowerPoint presentation?

Follow these steps:

♦ Go to your PPT presentation, select File -> Save As -> Other Formats.

♦ In the prompt Save As dialog, choose "Web Page (*.htm, *.html)" from the "Save as type:" drop-down list.

♦ Specify a folder to save in and rename the file.

♦ Finally, click the Save button.

Go to that folder, and you'll find a single HTML file with the specified name along with a new folder labeled the same name plus "_files". For example, if the file name is "happy hut. htm", the folder name should appear as "happy hut_files".

Open the new folder of a bunch of files, and you can pick out the sounds and original image files of your PPT presentation.

In addition, it is also possible to save and publish the whole presentation of images and sounds onto Web or mobile devices. What you need is to convert your PowerPoint presentation to video, a format that is portable and web-friendly, just using the smart PowerPoint to Video Converter.

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Present Easter Stories for Children

Generally, Easter stories for children are divided into two main types - Religious Easter and Fun Easter. Religious Easter stories have a Christian nature to remind the kids of Jesus' love while Fun Easter stories involve pleasant images like chubby chicks, Easter eggs and lovely bunny, all that about hope, faith, rebirth and renewal.

Here lists some short stories that are picked for children teaching:

Religious EasterTop 5 Religious Christian Easter Stories
1. A Lesson of Faith
by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

2. A Child’s Dream of a Star
by Charles Dickens

3. An Evening With the Angels
Author Unknown

4. Glories
by Ellen Robena Field

5. King Robert of Sicily
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Easter funPopular Fun Easter Short Stories for Kids

1. The Easter Story
by Annie Willis McCullough

2. Molly’s Easter Hen
by Annie Willis McCullough

3. The Song of the Spring
by Annie Willis McCullough

4. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter from The Original Peter Rabbit Books

5. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
by Beatrix Potter from The Original Peter Rabbit Books

After story pick, you should be aware of the teaching method – you cannot expect the Easter story to make any sense unless you tell it in an easy-to-get way. Here let’s come to the next step

How to tell those Easter stories in a simple manner?

You needn’t to worry about that thanks to the great authoring tool PowerPoint. As is known, little children are more likely to be attracted by animated images than plain texts. So edit your Easter story in PowerPoint where you can add Easter pictures and songs, and employ various animations to achieve effects.
For free Easter PowerPoint templates, refer to this Download Free EasterPowerPoint Templates

OK. A vivid Easter presentation is made, now you can take it to your class and show to your kids. To avoid the compatibility problem of different computers and the delivery difficulty, however, we kindly suggest you make a DVD or video copy of the Easter story. This can be quickly done with the professional PowerPoint to DVD and PowerPoint to video conversion software PowerPoint to DVD Burner

Create April Fools' Prank Video

April Fools’ Day is not only a festival but a funny gift. Enjoy the gift and trick a lot with your own prank video.

Happy April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day is all about pranks and practical jokes. Are you going to play April hoaxes? It's really a great amusement. Traditional pranks such as sudden shower, salt surprise, tricky coin and avalanche are not bad for fooling an April fish. But they may seem a bit stale to surprise veteran victims. In contrast, a creative prank would be much better to get someone duped.

There are cans of imaginative juices on April Fools. One fresh idea I would like to introduce is to create an April Fool's prank video from PowerPoint. Videos are now the apple of the netizens' eye. If you are a computer user, you may get engaged in a sea of funny videos on YouTube during your daily surfing online. You may wish you made a staggering video and showed it to the whole world. And of course, you can easily realize that if armed with a video camera.

What if you haven't got such a camera? Still, you can do it - simply employ MS PowerPoint to create a gag video. Other than content authoring for office meetings and school teaching, PowerPoint works magic in game creating as well. It must be a challenging fun to compose your crafts into a living hoax using PowerPoint. Put your April prank into PowerPoint, and take full advantage of those dynamic animations and wipes, shapes and graphics to make an eye-catching presentation. IMPORTANT: Please avoid adding in elements (e.g. race sensitive, discriminated) that may hurt or harm the feelings your victims while editing in PowerPoint.

Nevertheless, you may have to take up a medium to convert the prank presentation to video format as PowerPoint itself lacks the function of saving as video. One of your best assistants is PowerPoint to Video Converter, a dedicated software tool to clone your PowerPoint prank to streamline video within one mouse click. Simply use the software to realize conversion from PowerPoint presentation to video. Then you can upload your April Fool's prank onto YouTube, email it to a friend or co-worker, and connect it to a portable to share with your family.

That is the way that a creative mind takes to celebrate 2009 April Fool's Day – Simply with a crisp prank video out of productive PowerPoint. Sounds saucy, isn't it? So set out your genius of joking and craft a gag video game as gift for the April Fool's festival.

Why convert PowerPoint to Video?

It’s safe to say there are hundreds of millions of PowerPoint presentations around the world that are sitting idle – a library of knowledge that was used once and will probably never be tapped again.

PowerPoint users from companies, schools and government agencies all expressed a desire to have their presentations live on beyond their original use at a meeting or conference. These users point out that for every person who attends a live presentation, countless others could benefit by viewing a presentation later. The problem, as we have all experienced, is that while others can view a static PowerPoint slide deck, only those who attended the original presentation receive the full benefit. People who view it later will not hear the presenter’s voice, or understand what points were emphasized, or hear questions and answers that were discussed.

There is a need for an easy way to capture the full benefit of a PowerPoint presentation; a method that does not require extensive training or expensive equipment

Here are a few instances when converting a PowerPoint file to video would be beneficial:
• To give your corporate audience or sales prospects a take-home video of your narrated presentation on CD-ROM or DVD.
• To record and post your presentation online so that students and parents can review assignments at their convenience.
• To create PowerPoint-based how-to videos for colleagues and customers who are learning to use new software.
• To create a presentation for grandma of her grandchildren and deliver it on DVD in the new DVD player that you bought her for the holidays.

Slide Show vs. Video

It’s important to remember that PowerPoint was not created with video in mind, which is why users create slides and not video frames. Slides, unlike frames, are static and therefore have a smaller file size. Video, which are frames in motion, result in larger file sizes. However, watching a full-motion video of PowerPoint presentation, like watching a movie, is very engaging and memorable.

There are also many recording benefits that are only associated with video, such native real-time and full-motion options. The most popular way for individuals to deliver a rich video presentation is to burn it to CD-ROM or DVD. In a corporate setting employees can save videos to a network drive and a company’s systems administrator can make videos accessible to employees, customers, and partners to view on-demand (regardless of location) by uploading the files to an external server. In some cases, you can even email them to colleagues, friends and family, depending on the file size.

How to convert PowerPoint to video and publish to DVD?
Just use the powerful PowerPoint to DVD burner!