Powerpoint presentation to .avi

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Jared

Does anyone know of a good way to convert a powerpoint
presentation to a .avi file (or other movie format)?
 
Play your PowerPoint presentation while running CamStudio -- a free
screencapture program that will convert your presentation, sound effects
included (if you use them), to avi or flash (your choice).
 
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Updates".]

Hello Jared,

PowerPoint does not have the built in ability to save presentations as
video files (with the exception of PowerPoint 97 using an obsolete add-in
from the Windows Media Technologies team for converting a presentation with
narrations to an *.asf file).

If the ability save presentations as movies, 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 would mitigate the need to save presentations as video
files), 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.

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suggestions)

In the meantime you, 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).

Both of these create *.WMV files which are the same as *.ASF files (just a
different file extension). In each case they only capture the screen and,
optionally, the default audio input source (not output) so to record audio
you would have to use an audio patch cable to connect the line-out or
speaker-out port to the default audio input port on your system. To convert
the resulting *.WMV to a different format you would have to use some other
tools.

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

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