30 Mar 07 Reduce the size of your PowerPoint files

Convert PowerPoint to Flash can reduce 90% of the PowerPoint file!!
Use the tool PPT2FLASH
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/powerpoint-to-flash.php?sid=4
Other methods
Reduce the size of photos .Digital camera photos often are very large.
Compression
There’s more to the Photo Album thing yet – if you started with high resolution images, you’ll find your Photo Album presentation saves to a huge size – if you want to email it to others,follow these steps:
Right-click any picture (actually an AutoShape with a picture fill) and choose Format | AutoShape.
Choose the Picture tab in the resultant tabbed dialog box and click the ‘Compress’ button.
Change the resolution to Web/Screen and choose to apply to all pictures in the document (presentation). Click ‘OK’ and then ‘Apply’ to the next dialog box. Click OK again.
Resave the presentation.
If you have the time and want the album to be smaller, try to save photos in a smaller size (around 400 KB is great). You’ll lose some detail, but the smaller size photos will allow the slide show to load and run faster.
To reduce the size of photos on a PC, use Photoshop or another photo editing software, or go to Programs>Accessories>Photo Editor. Click File>Open and open the photo. Click File>Save As and then decrease the size of the picture by moving the toggle bar closer to “smaller file/low quality.” Rename the picture something you’ll recognize as the smaller sized photo (SmallBasketballTourn.jpg, for example). Make sure you save the photo to your project folder, and then click OK.

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26 Mar 07 A Quick Look at Audio Timeline Editor of PPT2Flash Professional

Function:
It enables you to edit the audio associated with slides and adjust the timing of each slide
Basics:
There is a step of procession before you edit the audio file. It enables you to preview the converted flash slideshow. Then you can edit the audio inserted in PowerPoint or imported by the audio timeline editor. The audio clips are presented as sound wave in the waveform area. The timeline shows you exactly when audio occur on a specific slide. You can rearrange the audio by cutting, pasting, copying and deleting certain sound segments. With this audio editor you can sequence the sound passages easily and accurately to debug the final solution. In other words, like the video editor, this audio timeline editor aims to sync audio to the slides, especially to slide animations.

2. Editing in Producer
After you have imported digital media files or recorded the video and audio you want to use in your presentation, you can then begin arranging them in your project. You start by adding them the timeline. The timeline is the Producer workspace in which you arrange the various elements that will appear in your presentation. The timeline enable you to edit the entire project or elements of the project, such as individual audio and video files. You can use Producer to trim unwanted video and audio out of your presentation. You can enhance your presentation by adding a video transitions and effects.

3. Synchronizing Your Presentation
You can choose to synchronize existing video and audio files with your PowerPoint slides. This is important feature of Producer because it lets you take different digital media files, such as audio, video, still images, and slides and then quickly synchronize them to create a rich-media presentation. Synchronizing is done through the synchronize slides features.

Supported audio file: MP3, WAV
Audio source:
 Audio files in PowerPoint like voice-over, narration, the sound of animation and other inserted audio
 Audio files inserted by PPT2Flash Professional like recorded narration, imported audio.

Notes:
There are some audio files that the timeline editor can not edit including the audio in a video file, the audio of the inserted flash movies and some special audio like audio with extraordinarily short playing time. Some MP3 or WAV files by exceptive codes are also not supported.

Features and uses:

Slideshow Section: show the slide which is being editing
Menu bar: display the features
1. Copy, paste, cut, delete
Copy, paste, cut, deletes the selected sound waves in the waveform area
2. Redo & undo
Forward or back-forward to the previous settings
3. Insert silence
Select a target audio segment to insert silence to compensate for variations in volume
4. Adjust volume
Sometimes certain audio passages are too loud or too soft and you can adjust the volume of any selected audio segments to your satisfaction.
5. Fade duration
Add effects to the sounds by setting the fade in or fade out duration for smooth transition
6. Zoom in & zoom out
Get a better look of the sound wave by zoom in or zoom out
7. Previous slide & next slide
Forward and back-forward slides
8. Start next slide
This feature functions only if the playing time of audio is longer than that of the flash slide. In that case, you can drag the slide forward and set the end time of the slide. It helps you to better sync the converted flash slide with the audio.
9. Previous group and next group
The editor will divide the whole PowerPoint presentation to several groups based on the playing length of slideshow and the inserted audio files. This grouping feature is default in this editor and aims to speed up the sync procession. You just click to go to the previous group or next group.
Tips: It is necessary to save the changes to audio segments before you advance to next group.
10. Import
Import more audio files to slides
11. Synchronize with slide
The imported or pasted audio has two playing modes in the editor. One is to play throughout several slides until the audio finishes playing. The other is to play in a specific slide regardless of the audio playing time. Check this feature to select the first playing mode and uncheck to select the second playing mode.

For better sync results, you should
1. Adjust the first slide from the end of the slide
2. Edit the audio according to animations and slide content
3. Delete a blank passage at the beginning of a MP3 file to make a better jumping-off point of the audio
4. Add fade in or fade out effects to every slide for smooth transition

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15 Mar 07 Embed PowerPoint slide show to web page—Convert PowerPoint to Flash

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.9.2–convert powerpoint to dvd
www.ppt-to-dvd.com
Wondershare PPT2Flash – PowerPoint to Flash tool

Embed PowerPoint slide show to web page—Convert PowerPoint to Flash

2007-03-15 19:22

Embed PowerPoint slide show to web page—Convert PowerPoint to Flash

Lots of beautiful or useful PowerPoint slide show can be placed on our websites with the popular Flash movie format. If you are a webmaster who is good at PowerPoint or have PowerPoint presentations to share with others, you will be interested in this article.

Of course you can put the PowerPoint presentation on a site directly as a normal PowerPoint PPT or PPS file. The file can be downloaded and viewed by customers who have Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer installed on their computers. But, does everyone have PowerPoint on their computer? Of course not! Thus this way is not proper to widely distribute your PowerPoint presentations.

Let’s consider the method that converting the PowerPoint presentations to html pages? Obviously by this way we can get directly html web pages to put in our web space. But the html format can not obtain the animations and transitions of the original PowerPoint presentation. And the kind of html pages may make our web site very slow!

What is the best way to distribute the PowerPoint presentation in the internet？To reply this question, there are three aspects should be taken to consideration:

1, Obtain the PowerPoint animations and transitions.

2, Easy to add to the web page.

3, Protect the author copyrights

Then which format is the best choice? HTML, PPS/PPT , or Flash? Obviously Flash is the best format which can fulfil above requirements

Advantage for converting PowerPoint to flash:

1, Preserve the original PowerPoint animations and transitions.

2, Reduce up to 90% of the PowerPoint file size.

3, Password protect the output Flash presentation. No one can edit it except the author.

4, Embed the Flash anywhere, create beautiful web page.

5, Small size file is easy to be emailed to others.

How to convert PowerPoint slide show , PowerPoint presentation to Flash? Just follow below steps..

Steps:

1. Download the PowerPoint to flash conversion tool:

Directly Download:

http://support.wondershare.com/stat/?action=down&id=22&sid=4

Overview of the powerpoint to flash tool:

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2flash_std/overview.html

2. Install the PowerPoint to Flash tool as a PowerPoint plug-in

3. Launch PowerPoint and import the presentation

4. Configure the Publish Settings in PPT2Flash

5. Add some multimedia content to the presentation with “ Record narration” “import audio” “insert flash” features.

6. Click “Publish”

The picture guide of the steps:

PPT2Flash is an add on of the PowerPoint, you can find it in the PowerPoint tool bar:

Publish Settings:

Password protection(in the Publish Settings- Other):

Insert Flash to the presentation:

Publish:

Other good tutorials can be found in my blogs:

http://ppt2dvd.blogspot.com

http://ppt2dvd.wordpress.com

Tips:

1.You can import audio to the presentation by choosing from the menu “import audio”.

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13 Mar 07 How to embed flash into Blog

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.9.2–convert powerpoint to dvd
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download.php?sid=4

This little article is mainly to tell you how to embed flash in to blog, insert a flash to blog is always interesting. Now , let’s begin!
Step 1. Upload the flash to web You can use FREE file upload service listed here to upload the converted flash to web. http://www.mediawart.com/ http://www.filepimp.com/ http://www.websamba.com/ http://www.250free.com/ http://www.geocities.com/ http://www.angelfire.com/ When upload is done，copy the URL of the uploaded flash file. Step 2. Insert the flash file to Google Blog Google Blog does not have a native feature for you to insert flash to a blog post directly. You should use some HTML coding to insert it. A.Create a new post or open edit an exciting one. B.Switch to Edit Html pane C. Insert the flash to blog with the following html coding

</object>

Note:” URL of the uploaded flash file” included in the coding should be the URL of the uplaoded flash to web with the uploading services. Step3. Publish Google Blog

http://ppt2dvd.blogspot.com/
http://ppt2dvd.wordpress.com/

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13 Mar 07 Wondershare PPT2DVD

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.9.2–convert powerpoint to dvd http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download.php?sid=4 Embed PowerPoint slide show to web page—Convert PowerPoint to Flash Lots of beautiful or useful PowerPoint slide show can be placed on your website with the popular Flash movie format. If you are a webmaster who is good at PowerPoint or have PowerPoint presentation to share with others, you will be interested in this article. Of course you can put the PowerPoint presentation on a site directly as a normal PowerPoint PPT or PPS file. The file can be downloaded an viewed by customers who have Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer installed on their computer. But, is everyone have PowerPoint on their computer? Of course not! Why not convert the PowerPoint presentation to html page? Obviously by this way we can not obtain the animations and transitions of the original PowerPoint presentation. What is the best way to distribute the PowerPoint presentation in the internet？3 aspects should be taken to consideration: 1, Obtain the PowerPoint animations and transitions. 2, Easy to add it to the web page. 3, Protect the author copyrights Then which format is the best choice? HTML, PPS , or Flash? Obviously Flash is the best format which can fulfil above requirements ——-Publish the PowerPoint flash to embed into the web page. Steps: 1. Download the PowerPoint to flash conversion tool

PPT2Flash

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/powerpoint-to-flash.php?sid=4 2. Install PPT2Flash on the computer as a PowerPoint plug-in 3. Launch PowerPoint and import the presentation 4. Configure the Publish Settings in PPT2Flash 5. Add some multimedia content to the presentation with “ Record narration” “import audio” “insert flash” features. 6. Click “Publish” Advantage for converting PowerPoint to flash: 1, Preserve the original PowerPoint animations and transitions. 2, Reduce up to 90% of the PowerPoint file size. 3, Password protect the output Flash presentation. No one can edit it except the author. 4, Embed the Flash anywhere, create beautiful web page. 5, Small size file is easy to be emailed to others. Other good tutorials can be found in my blogs: http://ppt2dvd.blogspot.com http://ppt2dvd.wordpress.com

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11 Mar 07 How to Insert Flash in Flash Presentation

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.9.2–convert powerpoint to dvd
Wondershare PPT2Flash –convert powerpoint to Flash
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download.php?sid=4

How to Insert Flash in Flash Presentation

A tutorial for flash newnewbie- How to Insert Flash in a Flash Presentation As a flash newbie , I can not handle Flash 8 skillfully.The thing is that I have some knlwledge of PowerPoint. To insert flash in PowerPoint presentation is troublesome especially when move or deliver the presentation. With a PowerPoint to flash conversion tool, things begin to work in an easier way. Basic:insert flash in PowerPoint presentation conver the presentation to flash Tool:PPT2Flash Preparation:**a PowerPoint Presentation containing the content you want to see in your Flash **Flash movies
Steps__________-
Step1
Download the software PPT2Flash and finish installation.
The most import thing is that you select the plug-in mode of the two installation options.

Step2
1. Open PowerPoint and import a PowerPoint Presentation
2. Choose PPT2Flash in PowerPoint menu bar and select “insert Flash”.

Step3
3. Click to select the slide you want to insert Flash. (Two cases)
3.1 Click “insert” to insert the Flash file as an element in a slide. (Case 1)
3.2 Insert Flash as a new slide in your presentation. (Case 2)
Click the blank area near the “False” option and choose “True” in the drop-down menu.
Set the inserted flash before or behind a specified slide.

Step4
1. Choose “Publish” to convert the presentation to Flash
2. Select one mode to publish the presentation.
3. Click “Continue” in the above picture
Click “Start” to converter the presentation together with the inserted flash into an integrated swf file.
4.Wait for some time then you get a flash file.

Finally, I want to make a summary of this method. In fact, I do not insert Flash in Flash directly.
This PPT2Flash conversion software has a special feature of insert flash support. I insert Flash animation to the created ppt file before conversion with the software. As a result, I get an integrated SWF file out of the presentation and the inserted Flash. In other words, the first “flash” in my title means the inserted flash and the second one means the converted flash file.

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07 Mar 07 A Guide to choose the correct PPT To Flash software

A Guide to choose the correct PPT To Flash
conversion software: 3Ps

There are many reasons for us to use PowerPoint and as many reasons as that for us to use Flash movies. PowerPoint is an easy-to-use application to create powerful presentation. Flash is a web tool which has interactive vector animation and small file size. However, it does ask for some technical skills to create Flash. The best solution is to create PowerPoint presentation and then converter the presentation to Flash. That is the reason we need a PPT To Flash conversion application. But it is difficult to choose correct software to need our specific needs due to many factors including software and hardware.

Today, we focus only on the software. There are a lot of conversion applications by different developers. Before we make a decision it is essential to find out the difference between them. 3Ps-price, performance and post-sale support are the three key factors for us to consider. Then I will give an example to show how does these Ps work in making a wise purchase.

1. Price
Price is important but not everything. The seemingly high price sometime does not mean a waste of money while the lower price may not be a barging. Let’s think about the concept –investment & returns. In this case, we should take cost/performance in consideration. In addition, we have to think about your budget. It casts great impact on our purchase decision. Therefore, the wise practice is to find balance between our budget, price and performance.

2．Performance
Performance is the key. But it does not mean that higher performance level is better because in we have to pay more for more features. We only pay for those features we needs. That is the point.
However, a PPT To Flash conversion software should have “must” features. They are the basic for us to create better presentation out of the PowerPoint source. We can look at the feature list of the software and see if it contain the features we need.

3. Post-sale support
Most of us are ordinary customers without sophisticated programming knowledge or technical skills. When we have problems we need help. Therefore, excellent technical support is necessary.
Besides, we need upgrade.

This is the case study of applying 3Ps.

Software: Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional
Availability: http://www.sameshow.com

Part 1 Price analyses
This is the price list
Single-user license:$199.95
Academic pricing:$99.95
Single-building site license:$399.95
Non-profit pricing:$199.95

Note: the Standard version is $59.95 with fewer features (http://www.sameshow.com)
In most cases, this kind of application has two different versions differently priced. One is lower than the other because of simple functions.

To sum up, the price level of this program is not high compared to other similar software in the market. That is all. We still have to find out what feature it has.

Part 2 Feature list of PPT2Flah Professional
Output Options:
l Two LMS standards output: AICC and SCORM
l Flash merger for web publish
l Play mode without player or control bar & play mode with tem
l Full screen play
l Package for CD
l Package for E-mail
l Upload to FTP server
l Detailed flash player settings
l Frame rate change
l Play speed control
Conversion capability
l Grouping effects in PowerPoint
l Animations on diagram
l 170+animations
l Gif animation
l Audio timeline editor to synchronize audio and video (plug-in mode)
l Video clips
l Slide transition
l Volume control
Interactive elements
l Flash movies insert (plug-in mode)
l Attachment support
l A tool pen in player
l Slide note edit
l Audio import
l Narration record and narration note

Choose the needed features and compare with the correct license price. If you find that you need most of these features, you can consider making a purchase. As for the actual functionality, download a trial version to have a try.

Part 3 Post-sale support
Actually, post-sale support includes two types of support. One is technical support and the other is upgrade.
1. technical support of PPT2Flash Professional
Ø e-mail technical support
Ø on line live support
Ø phone support
Ø forum
Ø help file
2. Upgrade
Ø Rapid upgrade
Ø Newsletter subscription
Overview:
Price:★★★★★
Performance: ★★★★
Post-sale support: ★★★Purchase index: ↑