4 Ways To Convert Powerpoint Presentations To Video
PowerPoint is a powerful presentation application which is very commonly used by lectures, businessmen, students, trainers, etc. It is easy to use and featured with a lot of functions to create interesting and dynamic slide presentations. This has made it widely accepted and utilized.
Video is powerful because it’s demonstrative, clearly depicting procedures, techniques or visual information such as charts and graphs. Most of all, video showcases charisma of live images and animations, allows for transparency and communication skills, which can lead to trust. It is also a good idea to make videos for special occasions as a way of watching them and reminiscing the good times.
Benefits of converting PowerPoint presentations to video
With PowerPoint in video format, it is easy for uploading to blog and websites. Videos can be uploaded to portable devices such as iPhone, iPod and Pocket PC
5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video (free ways and cost-effective ways)
Method 1:
Upload your presentations to http://www.slideshare.net which is one of the world’s largest communities for sharing presentations. It can generate video for your presentations.After uploading your presentations onto it, you can directly download the generated video onto your own computer, or embed the video to your blog.
But there are limitations to the presentations uploaded to it. Max size of the presentation is limited to 100MB. Animations, video clips and other complex elements couldn’t be added. PowerPoint 2007 is not supported. Sometimes, objects inserted into the presentation may be modified after the uploading.
Some other similar online PowerPoint sharing sites such as auhtorstream and slideboom also support generate video for the presentations uploaded. The advantage is that you don’t need to download any programs onto your computer and they are all free. If your presentation’s size is not too big, and there are only texts and pictures in your presentation, you can have a try at these sites.
Method 2: :
Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter is good free PowerPoint to video converter. After testing, i found using it easy to achieve what I wanted to do, while ensuring good quality.
- 1. Download this PPT2Video Converter and install it on your computer.
- 2. Launch the program. Click Import button to choose the presentation you want to convert, choose an output format for the video you want to generate. And then click Start button to start the conversion process. (This program can convert presentations to video in MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.)
- 3. Upload the video to blogs or websites such as YouTube.
Method 3:
Windows Movie Maker comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. With this method, it may time consuming and animations in your presentation would be lost after the conversion.
- 1. Save your PowerPoint slide show as “PNG” images.
- 2. Import the images to your Windows Movie Maker.
- 3. Select all the imported images and then add them to Storyboard.
- 4. Add video effects to the slides (Optional)
- 5. Save the slide show as Movie File.
Method 4:
Export your presentation as a QuickTime movie “PowerPoint Movie”. Then you can save your presentations to MOV video file. Way to do this: click File => Make Movie.But in this way, sounds and animations couldn’t be retained. If you are using keynote, just export your presentation to QuickTime file directly.
Take the advantages of PowerPoint and video. Convert your presentations to video. Share your presentation with more people and create a more convenient way to view your presentations.Enjoy!!!
