19 Sep 08 View PowerPoint on iPhone

 Since it is announced on January 9, 2007, and then introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007, iPhone is now in the process of being introduced worldwide. Because of the convenient functions of the iPhone, it is accepted by more and more business men, students and those who are fashion.

02 Sep 08 PowerPoint Converter—Convert Your PowerPoint to DVD, Video, PDF and Flash Formats

PowerPoint is the leading business software for presentations. It has become ubiquitous in most corporate meetings. But why keep such an extraordinary wealth of information locked inside the conference? We may want to show our PowerPoint on outdoor media like TV or DVD machine or show our presentation in the video conference. For teachers, Placing PowerPoint files directly in your course without preparing them for the web is simple, but can cause some problems. There is no guarantee that all of your students will use or have PowerPoint so it’s best to provide for those who do, and don’t. For most families, there must be something worth to preserving like photo albums we can’t depend on the PowerPoint.

Although many experts have provided lots of suggestions on how not to use PowerPoint, it is impossible for us to discard the PowerPoint totally. If you are a business man, or a teacher, or a student, you will find you have hooked on Microsoft PowerPoint although there are tough nuts in it. Don’t stand still, do here any solutions? Maybe it is beyond the reach of your imagination, you have never thought that PowerPoint can play on DVD like a movie or you can view your PowerPoint on website? What about converting your PowerPoint to flash? Does PDF is a safe format? There will be a detail description in this article.

Part one, burning your PowerPoint to DVD and play PowerPoint on DVD machine.

Why should we do this?

Cost effective, if we can play PowerPoint on DVD machine, a MS office installed computer is not unnecessary for payback anymore. And this is the most benefit for school stuff or no-profit organizations. For commercial users, making a PowerPoint presentation for the products display and showing it with a DVD machine is more effective than the traditional advertisements.

Easier sharing, PowerPoint is powerful for creating engaging presentations but not easy for wide sharing, DVD is a ubiquitous medium, which is supported by most computers and players and DVD can storage more than 100 M data which is too big to deliver by E-mail.

Long time preservation, DVD your presentations will live for more than 50 years! DVD is Ideal for long time preservation, while a hard disk will die in 10 years.

Highly security, after converting PowerPoint to DVD, you can give your presentation to your audience without worrying about it being modified by them.

How to do this?

Once I have writen an article named 5 methods to burn your PowerPoint to DVD at it gives us a clear guide to do this, now, here, I still give 2 advises.

The first way is using Windows Movie Maker, for the reason that it is free. 
The second way is using Wondershare PPT2DVD to convert your PowerPoint to DVD for the reason that it is easy-to-use and it can remain all animations, sounds, video clips original form your PowerPoint presentations.

Follow the steps you can create a DVD presentation from PowerPoint easily:

a. Importing the PowerPoint files, you can import 12 presentations at one time; 
b. Configuring settings to meet specific output needs; 
c. Creating DVD menus with customizable templates; 
d. Burning your presentation to DVD without attendance.

Part 2, convert PowerPoint to video format and view PowerPoint on website and mobile.

The benefit of convert PowerPoint to video format

Internet gives us a convenient platform to share our knowledge world widely, and video has become more and more pop in the internet. You may find that in January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views in the video sharing website YouTube. Some mobile set, like iPhone, iPod, zune and pocket PC spread fast. Why not use this intermedium to share our knowledge and show ourselves?

 

PowerPoint to Video converter can convert PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, 3GP and so on. There is another software program PPT2Video converter besides Wondershare PPT to Video. After using many similar tools, I find this one has  beautiful interface. After converting PowerPoint to video, you can view your PowerPoint on website like YouTube, Bebo, Yahoo video and so on. You can also use your iPhone, iPod to play your PowerPoint presentation, learn whenever and wherever when your want.

Follow the following steps you can convert PowerPoint presentation to video easily.

a. Install the software, (I recommend the free version for individual user) 
b. Import the presentation in the software then start, 
c. waiting until the progress complete. 
d. Upload to the video sharing website and your mobile sets.

It is a very easy method that worth to have a try, I think, and, convert PowerPoint to DVD or covnert PowerPoint to video is depend on the situation you are in.

Part 3, convert PowerPoint to flash

Compared with video, flash is more fire wall friendly and the capacity is smaller. Converting PowerPoint to Flash would also be absolutely a good choice to distribute your bulky PowerPoint Presentation. You can do the whole PowerPoint-to-Flash conversion manually or by related software. But at first you should make sure you are not using any complicated gradients or animations. These will be interpreted poorly when they are brought into Flash. Convert your PowerPoint to flash you should download some PowerPoint add-ins like PPT2Flash, I think you can find the detail information here

Part 4, convert PowerPoint to PDF format

PDF is a print-friendly format so it is very popular in the office filed. PDF is the formats that can run at different operating system include Windows, UNIX, and Mac. If you want to read the PDF file, you can download the adobe reader from adobe’s official site for free. But if you want to convert your PowerPoint to PDF format, you should download the Adobe Acrobat or some other software like DeskPDF . But this method can’t remain the animations, sounds and video clips original from your PowerPoint.

Each PowerPoint converter has their outstanding feature. Playing PowerPoint on DVD machine can be used in business ceremony, family celebration or for courseware preserving. Converting PowerPoint to video or flash can be friendlier to the web, besides, converting PowerPoint to video the PowerPoint can play on most mobile sets. For print-friendly you can convert your PowerPoint to PDF but it cannot remain the dynamic element. With these PowerPoint converters we hope we can go freely with PowerPoint.

 

 

28 Aug 08 Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.0.0 Released with Great Improvements

Aug 26, 2008-Wondershare Software Co., Ltd, the award winner of DVD & video authoring tool provider, today released PPT2DVD 5.0.0, which is an innovation that contributes greatly to the quality improvement of the last version. Continue to put all effort in perfecting the product and satisfying the customers.

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first program that enables users to convert existing PowerPoint presentations to dynamic DVD movies with ease. The final output will retain all subtleties from the original presentation, such as animations, transitions, sounds, video clips, and even hyperlinks between slides! Besides, users are allowed to create eye-catching DVD menus for easy and quick navigation. Also, with the build-in DVD burner you can produce PowerPoint DVD movies without attendance.

What’s new in Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.0

1.       The convert speed, output quality and compatibility are improved significantly due to the new processing engine.

2.       The reputed easy-to-use user interface is more user-friendly and easy-understanding.

3.       The innovative sound recorder is powered to retain all kinds of sounds in your presentations.

4.       Adding logo(s) to all your presentations is a thing of few seconds.  It is very easy to add logo(s) for your business presentations.

Learn more about PPT2DVD 5.0 at http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html

Thousands of individuals in corporations and educational institutions, who are not multimedia experts, use Wondershare PPT2DVD to share knowledge, information and ideas to their audiences in form of engaging online presentations, demonstrations and interactive training videos. Business Teachers and students use PPT2DVD to share their courseware and project, families use PPT2DVD to convert their family albums, priest use it for preaching…

Pricing and Availability

Wondershare PPT2DVD is priced at $99.95 for Single-user personal license. Single-user commercial license and Multiple-user license are available. To get more information and obtain a free trial version, please visit http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com  

About Wondershare Software Co., Ltd

Established in the year 2003, Wondershare is dedicated in developing innovative multimedia applications for individuals and businesses. The name of Wondershare shows a will of the founder of the company and the folks here to share their creativity with the world, and make the life and work of others easier.

 

 

21 Aug 08 Wondershare back-to-school promotion

August 25, 2008-Wondershare Software Co., Ltd, start the back-to-school promotion, this promotion will last for about 40 days, during the promotion, Wondershare provides 30% discount for PPT2DVD and 20% discount for PPT to Video. Customers who buy the product can also get a pack of 8 free PowerPoint templates during the promotion.

This promotion is ended. See the latest Wondershare back-to-school sales

What is Wondershare PPT2DVD?

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first program offering a cost-effective method to burn PowerPoint presentations to DVD. All animations, sounds, video clips and hyperlinks between slides will be retained after conversion. No complex computer skills are required. Just import the PowerPoint files, create professional look DVD menus from build-in templates, and start the burning process. It’s all that easy! Learn more about Wondershare PPT2DVD

The benefits of using Wondershare PPT2DVD

1.Burn your courseware and project report to DVD for easy sharing and delivery

2.You won’t need to worry about your courseware being modified after burning it to DVD

3.DVD based courseware will be played smoothly, no matter you have a PC, Mac or DVD machine

What is Wondershare PPT to Video?

Wondershare PPT to Video is an all-in-one PowerPoint to video converter. It empowers you to convert PowerPoint presentations to almost all popular video formats such as AVI, MP4, WMV, ASF, MOV, MPEG and so on, with excellent quality. Learn more about PPT to Video

The benefits of using Wondershare PPT to Video

1.Share your PowerPoint courseware worldwide via blog, YouTube and iTunes

2.Review your PowerPoint courseware on iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC

3.Play PowerPoint courseware on computers without PowerPoint installed

4.Reduce PowerPoint file size by up to 90% for easily emailing your courseware to others

Pricing and Availability

The original price of Wondershare PPT2DVD is $99.95 and Wondershare PPT to Video is $49.95. Academic users can get PPT2DVD for $69.95 and PPT to Video for $39.95 during the promotion.

About Wondershare Software Co., Ltd

Established in the year 2003, Wondershare is dedicated in developing innovative multimedia applications for individuals and businesses. The flagship product like PPT2DVD is accepted by more than 300,000 users all over the world. The name of Wondershare shows a will of the founder of the company and the folks here to share their creativity with the world, and make the life and work of others easier.

01 Aug 08 PowerPoint Video Issues–How to Insert Video into PowerPoint and Deliver It Well

 Using video clips to show concrete examples in PowerPoint presentations such as business meeting, courseware and some family celebrations is a great idea. It promotes active cognitive processing, which is the natural way people learn. So I want to descript a simple question asked in yahoo answers frequently, that is, how to insert video into PowerPoint in MS PowerPoint 2007and how to reliably deliver the PowerPoint presentation contains video clips. This is a frequent problem that the video can’t play on other’s computer you sent to while it can play well in your own computer.

Part 1: How to insert video into PowerPoint?

 

When inserting video clips into PowerPoint 2007, you have 2 choices. You can insert video clips from your own file or from clip organizer into PowerPoint. PowerPoint automatically has motion clips in the Clip Gallery. Motion clips are like clip art except the images that include animation. This animation can be seen when you run the slide show.

Insert video into PowerPoint presentation from my own file

At first you must download the video you appreciated from the website, and remember, put the video clip and your PowerPoint presentation in the same folder. The most suitable formats to insert into PowerPoint are WMV. AVI, MPG.  ASF is also fine but it depends on your codec, a codec is a device or program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. OK, now, let’s start.

1.       View the appropriate slide in normal view which you want to insert the video clip in.

2.       From the insert tab, click the pull-down list, click movie from file, then insert movie dialog appeared, choose the right video file.

3.       Then the alert box appears asking how you want the movie to start. To play the movie automatically, click automatically. To start your movie by clicking the mouse, click When Clicked.

Insert video clip into PowerPoint presentation from clip organizer

A: In the clip organizer, there are many simple and vivid video clips we can enjoy.

1.       From the insert tab, click the movie icon and choose movie from clip organizer, The Clip Art task pane appears with all choices displayed.

2.       Search for clips by keyword in the search text box, click the right video then the video appeared in your slide.

Part 2: How to delivering PowerPoint with video embed well?

Someone may be confused by this question, the video and audio can be played smoothly on their own computers but when sent to others, the video and audio cannot be work.

Previously, I have mentioned that you should put the video clips and your PowerPoint presentation in the same folder, when send your presentation to others, zip the folder to a package, and then sent the packed file rather than the sole presentation. In fact, video clips are not embedded in PowerPoint, but linked to PowerPoint. If PowerPoint cannot find the video clips in slides, of course, it cannot be played.

OK, you did everything as I said in order to share your presentation with your friends, but, unfortunately, some of your friends don’t have PowerPoint installed. Can they view your presentation?

Convert your PowerPoint to video. Yes, it is possible. And this is the most popular method that helps you deliver your presentation widely. After converting your PowerPoint presentation to video you can podcast your presentation on YouTube, your website, blog, and even view it on TV.

There are many converters that can convert the PowerPoint to video format. If you input “convert PowerPoint to video” in Google search toolbar, you will find hundreds of thousands of results.

08 Jul 08 PowerPoint Security

Are you a busy PowerPoint user who wants to improve PowerPoint security? Recently, I paid much attention to the security of the PowerPoint presentation: We spend much time creating a PowerPoint presentation. When sharing our presentation with others, we often worry about the security of it, and worry about being modified by others. So we usually want to take some methods to improve the PowerPoint security.

It is awful to see your PowerPoint presentation appears somewhere with some information changed, especially, your name changed! The fact is that most time we have to hand out our PowerPoint presentation for some reasons. We can do something to protect our PowerPoint presentation. Here are some methods to improve your PowerPoint security and their disadvantages:

v  The first way to improve the security is to use the functions PowerPoint itself provides.

Ø  Password protecting in PowerPoint 2003.

·      Open the presentation that you want to set a password for. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Security tab. In this dialog box you can set password for viewing PowerPoint and modifying PowerPoint. 

·       But this function is not really safe when you are using PowerPoint 2003 because when you choose Compare and Combine the presentation, the password protect can be avoid easily.

 

Ø  Password protecting in PowerPoint 2007.

·     Encrypt Document, File->Prepare->Encrypt Document. You can set a password to protect your PowerPoint presentation. It is similar with in 2003.

·     File->Prepare->Restrict Permission, give the permission to the person who you trust by their E-mail account.

·    Add a Digital Signature. You can add a Digital Signature in your presentation to protect it.

·    Mark as Final. Choose the option of Mark as Final, after that, nobody can modify your presentation including yourself, but as it to me, compared with the methods above, I prefer this one.

 

 

v  The second way to improve the PowerPoint security is to use some programs to convert your PowerPoint presentation to video format. Besides the benefit of improving the security of your presentation, you can also make it convenient for the person who has not PowerPoint installed. It is convenient for delivery.

 

ØUsing PPT2DVD to convert your PowerPoint to DVD. You can image how safe your presentation is. The person who receives your presentation can only view your presentation on DVD!

ØUsing PPT to Video to convert your presentation to video format such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV and 3GP. Besides the security problem, have you ever thought that PowerPoint could be uploaded to YouTube? Yes, PPT to video can save your presentation to YouTube, IPod, iPhone, Zune and so on.

ØSaving the presentation in JEPG format then using Windows Movie Maker.  It is easy but we cannot keep the animations, transitions, sounds, video clips and other things in the original PowerPoint retained.  This method is similar with the one by converting your PowerPoint presentation to PDF format.

               

Choose the method you like and improve the security of your PowerPoint presentation, and get the benefit of it.

24 Jun 08 Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.7.1 released!

25 May 08 PowerPoint Tips

Are you puzzled when using PowerPoint sometimes? In this article, I will list some small PowerPoint tips. Maybe they are all common, but practical ones. Hope these tips will make you convenient in your work and life.

1.      How to Resize Pictures

You can size pictures in PowerPoint by clicking the picture with the mouse and dragging it to a new size. If you don’t want to "stretch" the picture (keeping the horizontal aspect ratio the same) but enlarge it, hold the Crtl key when changing the size. You can also click the corner of the picture and enlarge it and the aspect ratio will remain the same.

 

 2.      How to Use Scanned Photos in PowerPoint

In Microsoft PowerPoint, you may want to add your own scanned photos into a slide to spice up your presentation. But very large pictures can slow down you slide show when they start to load. Even if a picture takes only a few seconds to load, it can throw off your entire presentation, as well as your timing. Recommend using smaller sized photos to help your slide show run exactly how it should.

 

3.      How to Use Graphics with Text Efficiently

While working in Microsoft PowerPoint, you may decide to use text over graphics. This can either make or break your presentation, depending on how well you select your font and color. When working with text and a full color, it can be very difficult to pick the right color and font style. However, when working with a picture that only contains a few colors, text on top of it can spice up the slide’s appearance.

 

4.      How to Record a Narration in PowerPoint

You can record a narration into a PowerPoint slide easily. Do this:

•       Go to the Slide you wish to add a narration to.

•       From the Insert menu select Movies and Sounds.

•       Click Record Sounds.

•       When ready, click the Record button (the red circle).

•       When finished recording, click the black Stop button.

•       Click OK.

 

5.      How to Add a Background Sound to a PowerPoint Slide

To add a background sound to a PowerPoint slide, follow this:

•       Open the Insert menu.

•       Select Movies and Sounds.

•       Click Play CD Audio Track.

When a CD is inserted, a dialog box will appear. From here, simply choose the track you want and select the options you want for it. During your presentation, simply double-click on its icon to start the music.

 

6.      When Using AVI files with Presentations

Using an AVI file with a presentation may spice it up, but it can also ruin it. Make sure to keep your AVI file normal size. A movie playing that is viewed too big will not have anywhere near the quality that a smaller viewed movie will.

 

7.      How to Convert Your PowerPoint to DVD

You can use Windows Movie Maker, but you may not be able to keep the animations and sounds in your presentation. Another choice is to use a professional tool to help you do this easily. Here I recommend the Wondershare PPT2DVD. With a high conversion quality, you can do it easily.

More information you can go to http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com

 

Small PowerPoint tips but useful. Welcome to share more tips here!

 

21 May 08 Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.7.0 Released

New! Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.7.0 Released

May 21st, 2008-Wondershare- the world’s leading PowerPoint to DVD solution provider, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 4.7, an innovation that contributes greatly to the quality improvement of the last version. Continue to put all effort in perfecting the product and satisfying the customers. It is so far the best choice for you to burn PowerPoint to DVD for personal or commercial purpose.

 

Key Features

1.       All the animations, transitions, sounds, video clips, internal links contained in the original presentation would perform exactly the same after the conversion;

2.     An easy step-by-step conversion guide;

3.       Flexible Output Options;

4.       Support generating high resolution video for HD-TV playback;

5.       Create professional look DVD menus for flexible and fast navigation;

6.       Makes the videos in the original PowerPoint presentation full-screen play;

7.       Supports 12 PowerPoint files convert at a time;

8.       Compatible with Windows Vista, PowerPoint 2007.

 

What’s New

1.       Burns PowerPoint presentations to DVD with improved video quality (Real Player 10 is recommended);

With an improvement to the output video quality, the images are clearer and the sounds have a higher fidelity.

2.       The conversion process is more stable and fast;

3.       Improved DVD menu more comfortable and easy to use

More menu design options are available. You are able to create professional look DVD menus without learning curve.

 

Main Benefits of burning PowerPoint to DVD

1.       PowerPoint itself is an innovative presentation authoring tool. But due to its obstacle of sharing and spreading presentations, one may get quite annoyed sometimes.PPT2DVD helps you crack the big nut and enables you to distribute your presentations in the most popular formats.

2.       PPT2DVD enables you to create professional look DVD menus easily. After burning your PowerPoint to DVD, you can have a full control of playing the presentation. 

3.       DVD machine takes the place of a computer when showing your PowerPoint presentations.

Low cost, but high efficiency.

4.       Prevent your PowerPoint presentations from unauthorized editing.

5.       A DVD disc is convenient for sharing and delivering.

 

System Requirement

1.         Office Requirement: Microsoft PowerPoint Version 2000/2002/2003/2007

2.         Operating System: Windows (32) 2000/XP(Service Pack 2)/2003/Vista

3.         RAM Requirement: 256MB RAM or above

4.         Available Disk Space: 2 GB Free Space or above

5.         Other Requirements: Windows-compatible display with at least 800 x 600 resolution. Windows-compatible sound card (recommended) DirectX 9 or above

 

About Wondershare PPT2DVD

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the flagship product among Wondershare presentation tools which are easy-to-use, with comprehensive feature set and superior output quality. PPT2DVD is ideal for trade show, digital signage, business fair, company presentation, celebration and etc.

 

More information about Wondershare PPT2DVD, please visit:

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

 

04 May 08 Free PowerPoint Templates for Mother’s Day

 

The Mother’s Day holiday, in the United States, celebrates motherhood generally and the positive contributions of mothers to society. It falls on the second Sunday of each May. It is the result of a campaign by Anna Marie Jarvis (1864-1948), who, following the death of her mother on May 9, 1905, devoted her life to establishing Mother’s Day as a national, and later an international, holiday.

"Mother carries the child in her womb for nine months and in her heart for the rest of her life".

And in 2008, Mother’s Day occurs on May 11. Hope all mothers have a wonderful day.  There are some mother’s day PowerPoint templates for you to create presentations, give your thanks, love and gifts to your mom.

PowerPoint templates for mother’s day 1:
This is a sample Mother’s Day story template, follow the example and tell the story why mother is special. This template is come from Wendy Russell   The screenshot is like below:

Download this template

PowerPoint templates for mother’s day 2:
Give my best wishes to my mom.
From: http://www.indezine.com/powerpoint/templates/316.html

                            

Download this template

PowerPoint templates for mother’s day 3:
More PowerPoint templates for mother’s day.