Another PowerPoint to DVD Question

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Gina

Hi,
I've been reading back on some of these old posts before
posting my question about taking my Powerpoint slide show
with music and burning to a DVD. I tried the following
as suggested in an earlier post:

To best way to accomplish this is to save your PowerPoint
file as jpegs and import them inside Movie Maker 2 (free
program) then save your movie as an .avi file format.

Use a DVD writing program such as Roxio CD/DVD creator or
Click to DVD to burn you avi file on a DVD.

I have Movie Maker 5 which from what I can see doesn't
save as an .avi file format. I have Roxio but I have a
huge learning curve going on there. This seems like it
should be such an easy thing to do, but every where I
look its very involved. Can someone PLEASE give me a
specific way to do this...it would mean alot.
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I believe Windows Movie Maker saves only WMV files. I'm pretty sure you'll
need to convert that to MPG to actually burn a DVD-video, though.

Oh, wait. In the Save As Movie wizard, select "to my computer" then select
"other settings." In that dropdown, you'll see DV-AVI (NTSC). That actually
offers to save a an AVI. However, you'd still need to convert it to MPG as
well.
 
Yes, using PowerPoint2DVD is much more easier than that tutorial as I
think. I had also purchased the software on its site.
 
Yes, using PowerPoint2DVD is much more easier than that tutorial as I
think. I had also purchased the software on its site.
 
Hi Gina,

If you have a simple presentation and a really good machine (with a DVD
burner), some of the commercially available PowerPoint to DVD converters
might work for you. While I have not been involved with any of the
unofficial user-end testing, I have not heard of any that will not fail when
given large shows with complex animations (even with very high end
computers).

I'm not sure what company makes Movie Maker 5, but I think the posters were
referring to Windows Movie Maker 2 (which is currently at version 2.1).
This is a free download, but requires your Operating System be Windows XP or
higher. This is the only free option I know of.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx

You can:
Try one (or several) of the PPT to DVD converters to see if they will work
for you.
Try a screen capture tool, like Camtasia, to record a show and burn that to
DVD
Manually convert (as you were describing) via Windows Movie Maker 2 and DVD
recorder.

This is one of the more asked for features that we hear about in the NG.
Perhaps you could take a moment to let Microsoft know what you would like
and why it is important to you.
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP
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