DVD Animation - the Question continues

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Itay

I wondered in my last post if it is possible
to translate the animation abilities from PPT to DVD in
order to make a DVD file that will act the same and not
by mouse but by DVD's regular crusing.
 
In a round about fashion you could do it. You would need to convert the PPT
to the Mpeg-2 format. (Standard for DVD) (Use Windows Media Encoder to
capture the video. It's a free down load from MS.) Them break each slide
into different segments, and then use a video editing package like Ulead to
insert each segment into the movie and create DVD chapters for each one.
The user could then jump from chapter to chapter as they desire.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
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Hello Itay,

PowerPoint does not have the built-in ability to save presentations as
video files or other video formats such as DVD-Video so, as you've
discovered, it will take a lot of work to break up a presentation into
individual chapters and still images (especially if you have many
animations which you want to control using DVD-Video navigation
capabilities).

Although there have been some requests, made directly to Microsoft, for the
ability to export PowerPoint presentations to DVD, it's not always clear,
from the suggestion submissions, which of the DVD formats are desired; what
"problem" does saving as DVD solve for each customer; and, given the
limitations of DVD-Video (and other movie formats) when compared to the
fidelity of a native PowerPoint slide show, what slide show
capabilities/quality customers are willing to give up in order to get the
perceived benefits of DVD output.

So, if the ability save presentations to DVD-Video (even with unavoidable
loss of some interactivity capabilities), directly from within PowerPoint,
is important to you (or anyone else reading this message), or if there are
specific features of PowerPoint slide show distribution that you would like
to see (which might eliminate the need to save presentations as DVD-Video),
don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) 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).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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