03 Aug 09 Convert PowerPoint 2010 to DVD

According to the statement of a Microsoft spokesperson, the upcoming version of Microsoft office 2010 has released a technical preview version in the third quarter of 2009 and will become available in the first half of 2010.

PowerPoint 2010 delivers more new and exciting functions to create and share your dynamic presentations, such as video editing, fluent animations and 3D effects and so on. The most of excellent feature is to support user convert their presentation to video right from within PowerPoint 2010 itself without using an external video editing program. At the same time, you might want to transfer your PowerPoint 2010 presentation to dynamic DVD movie for viewing on TV or share it with more people who just don’t have a computer. Thus, it is convenient to express and share ideas in the presentation with your audience by converting PowerPoint 2010 to DVD. With PowerPoint 2010, you can make use of the new feature to create a DVD, please follow the instructions below.

 

How to convert PowerPoint 2010 to DVD

 

l  Create a PowerPoint 2010 presentation

l  Save PowerPoint 2010 to Video

l  Burn your video to DVD

 

Create a PowerPoint 2010 presentation

 

The steps of create a presentation with PowerPoint 2010 is just familiar with the early version of Microsoft PowerPoint. Here I want to present some unique features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 when you make a presentation:

 

l  PowerPoint 2010 “Insert Wow Factor”

l  PowerPoint 2010 adds a lot of new slide transitions

l  PowerPoint 2010 enables user to edit embedded video

l  PowerPoint 2010 supports embedding video from online video sites like YouTube

 

Steps to Save PowerPoint 2010 to Video

 

Step 1: Open your presentation that you just create by PowerPoint 2010

Step 2: Click Office Button, and then choose Share option

Step 3: Click Create a video under File Types of Share option

Step 4: Click Create Video button

 

When the conversion process completed, your presentation is saved as a WMV format which is just the default format of video output of PowerPoint 2010.

 

Burn your video to DVD

You can directly burn your video to DVD with those famous and professional tools, such as Nero, Adobe premiere. If you don’t have any tool to convert video to DVD, Wondershare Video to DVD Burner - a cheap and easy-to-use tool is recommended.

After converting PowerPoint 2010 to DVD, you can distribute it without any restriction. DVDs can be easily played by anyone - even by those old grandma or little child who doesn’t know how to use a computer. What’s more, by burning PowerPoint presentations on DVD, you can not only play the presentations with a DVD Player on wide screen TV or plasma anywhere, but also control the playback just using a DVD remote. This is more acceptable by common users.

 However, if you have a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or any other early versions installed on your computer, download PPT2DVD converter  to convert PowerPoint to DVD.

19 Jun 09 Reduce the Size of your PowerPoint File for e-mail

 

Problem:I just made a slide show of my honeymoon to Hawaii with PowerPoint. I want to share it with my friends and relatives. However, it is too big to send as e-mail attachment. What shall I do？

Solutions:You need to reduce the size of your PowerPoint slideshow. The following solutions will help you reduce the size of your PowerPoint.

1. Change graphics file formats to reduce the size of PowerPoint:

There may be many images in graphic formats like bitmap (.bmp) in your PowerPoint presentation. You can open bitmap images with a program like Microsoft accessory tool -Paint to converts images and save them in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf to make your presentation smaller. Once your images have been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your slide.

It is a little time-consuming to save all the images again if there are lots of pictures.

 

2. Use file Save as:

 

This method can reduce the size of the file by up to 50% in some cases.

Step 1: Open the PowerPoint slide show.

Step 2: Click Microsoft office button .

·         Under the pop-up window click save as arrow.

·         In the file type dropdown list Choose PowerPoint presentation.

·         Type a new name and click save.

 

3. Compress Pictures in PowerPoint:

 

 Compress pictures in your presentation, then you can optimize the size by compressing pictures.

Step1:click the picture to bring up the Picture Tools .

·         Under the picture tool tab just Click Format.

·         In the Adjust group click Compress Pictures.

Step2: on the Compress Pictures window choose the Options…

Step3: on the Compression Settings window:

·         Compression options: automatically perform basic compression on save and delete cropped areas of pictures.

·         Target output: Choose E-mail (96 ppi) output to reduce the size of PowerPoint Click ok. 

4. Converting your PowerPoint presentation to flash:

 

You could try to convert your presentation to Flash and send the Flash file to others. The music will be embedded in Flash presentation. And then the flash slide show could be show on other computers without any problems.

Some third party presentation tool such as Wondershare PPT2Flash Standard can help you do this work. You can convert it with one click. Of course, all the original effect can be retained in Flash. Alternatively, you can also convert your PowerPoint presentation to video. 

Note:If your slide show is too large with hundreds of MB, you may also consider saving it on DVD for distributing and sharing. Wondershare PPT2DVD would help you save your PowerPoint slide show to DVD with music and all animations retained.