How To Import a Powerpoint Presentation Into Windows Movie Maker?
Some friends asked me on how to import a PowerPoint presentation into Windows Movie Maker, as they want to transfer PowerPoint to video that can be played on video player or be shared with others easier.
Actually, we can not import a PowerPoint file into Windows Movie Maker directly, for Windows Movie Maker’s supported input files are video, picture, audio or music.However there are 2 different methods by which you can import a powerpoint presentation into windows movie maker.
Method 1 – Save each powerpoint slide into a picture.
Open PowerPoint (2003 version) file, go to File->Save as, on the “Save as type” option, we choose the picture formats. There are 6 picture formats you can choose: *.gif, *.jpg, *png, *tif, *bmp, *emf. Any one format would be ok. Then click “Save”. A prompt will pop up, we choose “Every slide”. Seconds later, a hint pops up “Each slide in your presentation has been saved as a separate file in the folder: ***”.
Open the folder and you can find all the exported pictures.
Run Windows Movie Maker, import all the pictures, edit them, and then generate a beautiful video.
The disadvantage of this method is that it can retain the audios and animations in original PowerPoint presentation. To avoid this, I’ll show you the second method.
Method 2 – Convert PowerPoint presentation to video file
There are several free and paid tools to convert PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats like WMV, MPEG, AVI, etc. The Second method is definitely better than the first method.
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