Burn a presentation to dvd

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I would like to burn my presentation to a dvd-r, to be viewed on a dvd player. I see other post suggest buying an expensive software. I unfortunately cannot afford to do that. Maybe someone can answer this, my dvd player accepts and plays cd r's and I have done this in the past for a friends wedding however when I burn my powerpoint presentation to a cd r, I only can get the music to play on the television thru my dvd player. Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong. Thanks.
 
A home dvd player does not understand what a powerpoint presentation is. The
generally only understand how to play video clips and a very basic menu
system. OK, some DVD players can play music, mp3s, svcd, vcds, and show a
simple slideshow of pictures.

But they do not understand powerpoint. So you cannot just copy write your
dvd-r with a powerpoint file and expect it to play.

You can capture your powerpoint presentation to a video file and put that on
a blank dvd. I'm pretty sure the camtasia software has an un-restricted 30
day demo download...but I could be wrong so don't quote me!. This software
can capture the presentation. Then if you use nero 6 you can convert the
captured video file to a dvd file your home dvd player will like.

There may be other software that does the same job (less money/more
money/easier to use/harder to use/free even).... if you find any please
report back here to share that information with other powerpoint users.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the built-in ability to save presentations as
video files or other video formats such as DVD-Video. Instead, you would
have to rely on other tools to achieve this result.

the first step would be to convert your presentations to movies which (if
in the correct format) can be used with 3rd party authoring software to
create a DVD-Video disc.

A couple of free Microsoft downloads for capturing (recording) a slide show
to a video file are:

1) Microsoft Windows Media 9 encoder

and if you are using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003...

2) Microsoft Producer 2003 for PowerPoint (use it's screen capture
capability during a PowerPoint slide show).

If the ability save presentations to DVD-Video, directly from within
PowerPoint, is important to you (or anyone else reading this message), or
if there are specific features of PowerPoint slide show that you would like
to see (which might eliminate the need to save presentations as DVD-Video),
don't forget to send your feedback to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

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Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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