11 Dec 07 5 methods to save PowerPoint onto DVD

Time and time again, friends from Allexpert.com asked me how to burn PowerPoint presentations onto DVD.
One of them created a compelling PowerPoint photo slideshow with music and movie clips embedded, but he had no choice but attached the huge package in the email to send it to others for sharing.
Another one is a teacher. He had to make a presentation at a place where there was no computer but only a DVD Player and TV.

So it is necessary to write a comprehensive guide to help guys to burn PowerPoint onto DVD for easily distribute and share.

This guide will show you how to convert and save PowerPoint onto DVD. It includes the following 5 sections:

Use PPT2DVD to burn PowerPoint to DVD directly – $99.95 Recommended
Use PPT to Video to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD –$49.95
Use Camtasia Studio to record PowerPoint as video to burn to DVD –$299.95
Use Windows movie maker to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD –Free
Mac users – Export PowerPoint/Keynote file to Quicktime video to burn to DVD

Part 1. Use PPT2DVD to burn PowerPoint onto DVD directly – $99.95 – Recommended

Download from: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html

Step 1: Import: You can import up to 12 presentation files at a time.

Step 2: Setting: Check the default settings and make some changes if needed. You must choose the right TV standard which is used in your country. If you are not sure about this, you can select it by country.

Step 3: Create DVD menu based on DVD menu theme: Click Design to choose the DVD menu theme or customize your own DVD menu using the frames, buttons and icons resources.

Step 4. Burn: Click Start to burn your PowerPoint presentatin directly to DVD disc. Or you can burn the output DVD folder or iso file to DVD with a DVD Burner( either PPT2DVD built-in burner or Nero)

Part 2. Use PPT to Video to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD –$49.95

Download: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt-to-video-overview.html

Step 1. Import PowerPoint files to PPT to Video. And you are allowed to import 12 files at a time.
Select "PowerPoint to MPEG-2", "PowerPoint to WMV" or "PowerPoint to AVI" to transfer your PowerPoint presentations to MPEG, WMV or AVI

Step 2. Converting: Click " Start " to conver your PowerPoint presentations to video. Before this, you can also click Settings to set the properties of the output video

Step 3. Edit and burn the converted video to DVD with video to DVD burner software you have. If you do not have such burning tool, you may try this one named video to DVD burner.

Part 3. Use Camtasia Studio to record PowerPoint as video to burn to DVD –$299.95

Download: http://www.techsmith.com

Step 1. Set your computer display resolution as 800*600

Step 2. Save your PPT file as PPS file

Step 3. Set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen

Step 4. Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press "F9" to start recording the screen

Step 5. When you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, so choose a directory and enter a filename.

Click "Save". Camtasia will save your capture as an .AVI file.
choose the Title Only layout

Step 6. Then you can burn the video to DVD with Nero or Roxio

Part 4. Use Windows movie maker to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD –Free

Step 1. Save your PowerPoint slide show as "PNG","JPG" images.

Step 2. Import the pictures to your Windows Movie Maker

Step 3. Select all the imported images and add them to Storyboard

Step 4. Add video effects to the slides (Optional)

Step 5. Save the slide show as Movie File

Part 5. Mac user – Use Quick time to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD

Step 1. In Powerpoint, export your presentation as a Quicktime movie "PowerPoint Movie".
If you are using keynote, just export your presentation to Quicktime file directly.

Step 2. Burn the Quicktime movie to DVD with your DVD burner.

Advantages and disadvantages(Pros & Cons)

Method 1 has a medium price, it can burn PowerPoint to DVD with DVD Menus and retain the animations, transitions, sound and movie clips in the original PowerPoint file. (Recommended) If you choose manual mode, the internal hyperlink would be retained and you can choose manual mode to create DVD which can be navigated using remote control. It is an all-in-one converter and burning tool.
Method 2 is cheap and it can retain transitions and animations, but you are not allowed to create DVD menus and retain the inner hyperlinks. What’s more, you can not create DVD in manual mode to advance the DVD slide by slide.
Method 3 is fairly expensive, but Camtasia has lots of other functions such as recording the screen.
Method 4 is free but the transitions, animations in your original PowerPoint will not be retained.
Method 5 is free, but only for Mac users.

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23 Nov 07 Benefits of burning trade show PowerPoint on DVD

Benefits of burning trade show PowerPoint on DVD

Trade show often involves considerable marketing investment for participating companies. Costs include space rental, display design and construction, telecommunications and networking, travel, accommodations, promotional literature, and "give away" items. It is fairly high cost. So we are taking efforts to find a more economical solution to minimize the cost while retain or even increase the output.

By burning your trade show PowerPoint presentation on DVD, you can use big TV screen to show your tradeshow, which is more economical. You can also use a laptop to play the DVD and connect it to a LCD screen.

It is unattractive to distribute your product or company introduction on paper. Sometimes it is really boring. But if you put a DVD on audiences’ hands, they will be pleasant to accept it. So, don’t lose the chance to win the business opportunity. Burning your trade show presentation is essential.

Then, how to burn the trade show presentation on DVD?

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the very product that aims to do this kind of jobs.

As one of PPT2DVD users said:“ Wondershare PPT2DVD helped us won more business opportunities last year. Thanks a lot for this great software. ”

We are glad that PPT2DVD helps them so much.

If you are about to join a trade show, you should not hesitate to give it a try.

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23 Nov 07 Make a merchandise presentation for Christmas promotion

Make a merchandise presentation for Christmas promotion

As Christmas approach, suppliers and retailers are all busy making plans for the golden season. We all love it for its promotions and shopping opportunities.

To show your merchandise lively to customers, you may plan to make a merchandise presentation and show to customers on a big digital screen.

Do you know how to make this kind of presentation and how to put it on a digital screen?

You can buy services and equipments with thousands of dollars from companys that provide this kind of solutions. But that’s NOT what I recommend. There is a DIY solution which only cost about $100.

Now, let’s begin!

Step1: Preparation

Software: Microsoft PowerPoint, Wondershare PPT2DVD

Hardware: TV set, DVD Player

Step 2: Make the presentation

Make the product presentation with PowerPoint. You can add transitions, animations, sound and movie clips.

Step 3: Burn to DVD

Import: You can import up to 9 presentation files at a time.

Setting: At the “Play options” tab, make sure “Play the slides automatically” and “Loop Play” were checked.

Burn: Burn to DVD with a DVD Burner( either PPT2DVD built-in burner or Nero)

To learn more how to use PPT2DVD, please check here:

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/forum/topic2351.html

Step4: Connect the DVD Player to TV set

Make sure your DVD Player and the TV set are connected.

Insert the DVD to DVD Player, and the merchandise presentation can loop play continuously.

More advantages:

1. By putting the merchandise presentation on DVD, you can package it to the merchandise as a free gift.

2. You can also show your merchandise presentation anywhere with a portable DVD Player.

Learn more: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html

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20 Nov 07 MS PowerPoint and YouTube get married

MS PowerPoint and YouTube get married
Wondershare PPT to YouTube V1.0.0 released.

PowerPoint slides on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8IZKcQwsYc

Nov. 16th, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT to YouTube 1.0.0，an innovative tool to put your PowerPoint slide show on YouTube.

Do you have some nice PowerPoint slide shows and want to share them with friends on YouTube?
Do you want to promote your products with PowerPoint presentations on YouTube?

But, you know YouTube only accept video formats such as WMV, MP4. To put PowerPoint slide show on YouTube, we shall convert the PowerPoint file to WMV or MP4 video format.
This is actually what can Wondershare PPT to YouTube do for you.

Benefits of putting PowerPoint slide show on YouTube

1. It is more convenient and easy to create compelling video slide show with PowerPoint and Wondershare PPT to YouTube
2. Broadcast yourself on YouTube with your unique PowerPoint photo slide show
3. Promote your product or company with PowerPoint presentation on YouTube worldwide
4. It is an innovative alternative solution to email a PowerPoint presentation to others.

Key Features of Wondershare PPT to YouTube

Convert PowerPoint presentations to WMV, MP4 video
Retain animations, transitions, sound and movie clips
Superior batch conversion: up to 8 PowerPoint files can be converted at a time

Click to learn more details about Wondershare PPT to YouTube.
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/powerpoint-to-youtube-overview.html

Pricing and Availability:
Price: $39.95
Free Trial:
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/powerpoint-to-youtube-download.html

System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007

About Wondershare Software

Wondershare Software is an industry-leading desktop presentation application provider. Since its foundation, it has been specializing in providing powerful yet affordable multimedia presentation tools for home users, business people and educational professionals. Its product line includes flash presentation tools and video presentation tools. These tools offer users on-demand solutions with full controls to distribute presentations online and offline.

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06 Nov 07 Free Thanksgiving Day PowerPoint template download

Free Thanksgiving Day PowerPoint template download
Download it at the link below
http://down.mbcn.cn/mbppt/pptom070526011.rar

Preview it on YouTube

This video is converted from a PowerPoint presentation.
If you want to create video from PowerPoint slideshow like this.
You can use the tool Wondershare PPT to Video from http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com

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01 Nov 07 Make presentation with PowerPoint and show it on TV

Make presentation with PowerPoint and show it on TV

Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.5 Released

Oct. 30th, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 4.5，an innovative yet affordable solution to bring your PowerPoint presentation out of the computer onto DVDs and show it on TV.

Have this ever happened to you? You need to play a PowerPoint presentation at certain places but there is no PC available but only a DVD player. The presentation may be a product presentation, company presentation, trade mark display or educational presentations. In a word, it should be very important that you find out a solution to play your presentation without computers.

Another case is that you’ve created a compelling PowerPoint presentation with sound tracks and movie clips embedded, but have no choices but attach the huge package in the email and send to others for sharing, or carry your heavy box wherever you go. And what if the receipts or audience do not have a PC even have such access, and if they do not have the right version of PowerPoint viewer to play presentation correctly and if the attached media files are lost during the delivery? Needless to say, the efforts you spent on the presentations return nothing to you but only complaints, pities, and lost opportunities.

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first and so far the top innovative program that brings the idea to convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD which is designed to give an end to the above troublesome cases.

As one of PPT2DVD users said: “THIS SOFTWARE IS AWESOME, you can burn directly to a Standard CD which or DVD, or create an ISO file, when 1st put in your DVD player you have the options to manually go through the slides or let it do it automatically, this software will be a great plus for business and education, hooking $1500 projectors to a computer will be a thing of the past, just use a $20 DVD player…. “

Key features of Wondershare PPT2DVD.

1. Convert PowerPoint to DVD, MiniDVD, HDTV

2. Keep original PowerPoint animations, transitions, sound tracks, movie clips and even the inner hyperlinks in the DVD movie.

3. Customize DVD menus to create a real DVD that can be controlled using a DVD remote controller.

4. Convert to WMV, AVI, MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2) video.

What’s new in PPT2DVD 4.5

1. Automatically check PowerPoint file for errors to insure the best results

2. Flexible preview step to enable you to customize the video quality before burning

3. Brand-new interface with easier step by step guide

Click to learn more details about Wondershare PPT2DVD.

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html

Pricing and Availability:
Price: $99.95
Free Trial:

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/powerpoint-dvd-download.php

System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007

About Wondershare Software

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24 Oct 07 Free Halloween PowerPoint Templates

Free Halloween PowerPoint Templates

Halloween Template 01	Halloween Template 02

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Preview the free Templates through the YouTube video samples

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By converting PowerPoint presentations to video, you can

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- Podcast PowerPoint presentation to iTunes

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04 Sep 07 Spread PowerPoint presentation courses worldwide on DVDs

Spread PowerPoint presentation courses worldwide on DVDs

Have this ever happened to you? You’ve created a compelling PowerPoint presentation which is looking forward by lots of people, but you have no choice but attach the huge package in the email to others for sharing, or carry your heavy box wherever you go. The problem is, what if the receipts or audience do not even have access to a pc, or might not have the right version of PowerPoint viewer, or have the attached media files lost during the delivery. Needless to say, the effort you spent on the presentations returned nothing to you but only complaints, pities, and lost opportunities.

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first and so far the top program that brings the idea to Convert PowerPoint to DVD which is about to give an end to the above troublesome cases.

With Wondershare PPT2DVD, you can easily burn one or several PowerPoint presentations to a single DVD with the animations, transitions, audio tracks, video clips, action buttons, internal links in the original PowerPoint retained.

By burning PowerPoint presentations to DVD, you can get 5 benefits for distributing

1. No need computer, PowerPoint presentations can be watched on TV sets which can be easily found.

2. No need to worry the PowerPoint version and platform system differences, PowerPoint presentations can be viewed on any computer with Windows media Player or QuickTime player.

3. Bring PowerPoint presentations from online distribution to offline distribution through DVDs, Which is more stable and trustable to send your PowerPoint presentations.

4. It provided a solution to backup several PowerPoint presentations on one DVD.

5. It is accessible to send huge PowerPoint presentation above 100M.

What’s more, by burning PowerPoint presentations on DVD, you can not only play the presentations with a DVD Player on TV anywhere, but also control the playback just use a DVD remote. This is more acceptable by common users because it coincident to the custom.

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27 Aug 07 Wondershare Announced PPT2DVD 4 after Two-Year Wait

Wondershare Announced PPT2DVD 4 after Two-Year Wait.

– Stay updated, burn PowerPoint to DVD disc

Aug 25, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 4.0，an innovative yet economical solution to bring your PowerPoint presentation out of the monitors, but onto DVDs. Since its initial release on 2004, it has won tons of praises and received lots of suggestions. After two years developing, it finally upgraded from 3.x to 4.0 with great improvements.

Why to burn PowerPoint presentations on DVD?

1 Show PowerPoint presentations with DVD Player on TV

As the alternative solution to projector, you can burn PowerPoint to DVD and make presentation on TV with a DVD player without physical location limitations.

You can also create slideshows such as car show, product promotion slideshow with MS PowerPoint and burn them to DVD to play on a big screen TV in front the crowds.

2 Distribute PowerPoint presentations more conveniently

By burning PowerPoint presentation on DVD, you can easily distribute it to people worldwide without the trouble of different PowerPoint versions, different system s(Windows or MAC), no PowerPoint installed , or even no computer. With the PowerPoint presentations on DVD, you can also protect them from being copied.

3 Share PowerPoint slideshow on TV with family or friends

Do you have a wonderful PowerPoint photo slide show and want to share it with family or friends? Why not burn it to DVD and play it on TV with friends or family sitting together to enjoy the movie in a warm, happy atmosphere?

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the very 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, salespeople, presenters and even individuals who want to share or distribute their PowerPoint slide show more conveniently

The newly released Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.0 has been enhanced with flexible DVD Menus, additional PowerPoint to video functions, latest Blu-ray and HD DVD 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. Added PowerPoint to AVI, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 conversion ability..

2. With higher conversion speed, PPT2DVD 4.0 saves 50% time for you.

3. More powerful DVD Menu customization functions

4. Fully compatible with Windows Vista, PowerPoint 2007

5. Blu-ray DVD and HD-DVD supported

6. Latest High Definition TV (HDTV) standards supported

7. All the sound effects in the original PowerPoint files supported

8. Midi sound in PowerPoint presentation supported

9. Supported retaining the original PowerPoint narrations

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

Click to learn more details about Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.0.

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/powerpoint-to-dvd-4-upgrade.html

Download Free Trial of PPT2DVD 4.0:

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/download.php

Pricing and Availability:

Price of PPT2DVD 4.0: $99.95

Upgrade price: $39.95 (for personal license)

Purchase PPT2DVD 4.0:

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/buy/powerpoint-dvd-buy.php

System Requirements:

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007

About Wondershare Software

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16 Jul 07 PowerPoint to video–PPT2Video Converter 1.1.0 Released

July 17th, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2Video Converter 1.1.0，a powerful yet affordable tool to convert your PowerPoint presentations to video formats for portable devices such as iPod,Zune,iPhone,Pocket PC, Apple TV; online video sharing communities such as YouTube,MySpace,Google video etc; and burning resulting video to DVD or VCD.

Download: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/download.php

Learn more: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt-to-video-overview.html

Wondershare PPT2Video Converter is an all-in-one PowerPoint to video converter. It can convert PowerPoint presentations to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, ASF, FLV, MOV, 3GP, 3G2 with excellent quality.

What’s new in PPT2Video V1.1.0?
1. More intuive and sleek user interface
2. Improved the compatibility with Windows Vista

Take a look at PPT2Video V1.1.0

With Wondershare PPT2Video Converter you can:

Watch your presentation without MS PowerPoint
Ready to burn it to DVD or VCD
Upload it on YouTube.com or MySpace.com
Convert PowerPoint to streaming video to broadcast it on a screen or streaming online
Convert PowerPoint to MP4 video to play on portable device such as iPod, Zune, iPhone Apple TV and Pocket PC