DVD Presentation

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Good Morning:

I have a complex Powerpoint 2002 presentation with slides, sound and a number
of videos. It runs just fine. Basically, I introduce it and go through the
slides and the videos with commentary as it goes along. Some of the slide
changes are automated, some of the sound bites are also automated and
associated with particular ppoints made on a slide.

I would like to put this whole presentation on a DVD including the videos and
including a video of myself introducing and variously commenting on the
presentation as it goes along.

What is the best way to do this?
 
The easiest and most efficient way, if you have the equipment, would be to
film yourself presenting it, while recording an S-video output from the
computer to a set-top DVD recorder. Then edit the two video clips together
to get the right mix of you, pictures and sound.
 
You can but the options for saving as a movie don't give very good quality
output.
 
Tina,

Yes...you can play a Power Point in a home DVD player if you save it as a movie and burn it to a DVD?

The mac version of powerpoint allows you to save the presentation as a movie

The windows version does not.

This tutorials shows you how (with the help of camtasia and nero)
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpoint-to-dvd.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com
 
Try PowerPoint2DVD from http://www.powerpoint-to-dvd.com please.

It's a very easy to use software to burn your Micrsoft PowerPoint
Presentations into DVDs so that you can view them on your TV. Free
trial version available. Your original transition effects can be well
kept.
 
It's interesting you should suggest that.
I tried it on 3 different presentations and it either locked up (usually) or
didn't capture the whole screen. It does look very promising, though, if
teething problems were ironed out.

Any unbiased thoughts, Jacky?
 
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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 and, even if it did,
there would be significant loss of interactivity (because DVD-Video and
PowerPoint slide show have very different capabilities in this area) and
loss of visual fidelity (DVD-Video resolution is less than typical computer
display resolution and most television will not render colors the same way
that a computer display will).

If it is important to you (or to anyone else reading this message) that
PowerPoint have the ability save presentations directly to DVD-Video (even
with unavoidable loss of some interactivity capabilities), 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.

* Is there some problem with PowerPoint's current output options for which
you believe DVD-Video output is the solution/workaround?
* You want to distribute/show your presentation on DVD-Players (even though
there will be loss of functionality) because....<why>?
* Other reasons?

It's VERY important that, for EACH wish, you describe in detail, WHY it is
important TO YOU that your product suggestion be implemented. A good wish
submssion includes WHAT scenario, work-flow, or end-result is blocked by
not having a specific feature, HOW MUCH time and effort ($$$) is spent
working around a specific limitation of the current product, etc. Remember
that 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 so that we can FEEL YOUR PAIN.

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

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

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I have tried three similar products in this field. I must say this
software should be the best one. I do admit that i maybe locked up
sometime. But none such software can run without any problem. By the
way, what's the format of your PPT file?
 
Excuse me? No software can run without problems?
I'll ignore that on the assumption that it was a slip of the finger.
I've tried it with several different PowerPoint files, from 2000 and XP.
 
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