ppt presentation on a DVD

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I would like to know if there's a way to distribute a power point presentation on a DVD, so that It could be read by any DVD player and displayed on a television? Because some people would like to have my presentation, but they don't have a computer

Thank you in advance

Philipp
 
I recently did this and was pleasantly surprised by the end result quality.
However, there are a few things you need to be aware of when going from PC
screen viewing to viewing on a TV. Two issues are critical.... details on
the PowerPoint file, and the safe viewing zone.

First the details within the PowerPoint Slide:
A PC monitor has much higher definition than a typical TV screen. Therefore
you need to make sure that your PowerPoint slides do not contain really
small text, or have lots of small objects, thin lines, etc. If they do you
will find that you will either not be able to see them clearly on the TV, or
the small objects/thin lines will show a lot of "flicker" on the TV.

The safe viewing zone:
2) The NTSC TV standard is 720x480 pixels. However, a typical TV cannot
display the full 720 x 480 image size. You need to make sure that you allow
for a "safe zone", about 35-50 pixels. So in reality you want to make sure
your PowerPoint slides contents fall within a range more like 640 x 400.
That way you will be assured that your viewer will be able to see all of the
slide when viewed on a TV.


Assuming the above two issues are resolved, I have found that simply saving
the PowerPoint file as a series of JPG images works out really good if your
slides do not have animated objects, or contain video clips. To do this
choose the save as from the PowerPoint file menu and select the JPG save
option. You can save all the slides in the PowerPoint file as seperate JPG
files, or select the slides to save. If you have video clips on some of the
slides you can later come back and add these cliips when you author the jpeg
files to the DVD.

Which leads into the actual making of the DVD. You will need some sort of
authoring program to take your image files and write to a DVD. I use Adobe
Encore, its got just about everything I need could possibly need as far as
authoring goes. However, it is a little complex to use. There are much
easier programs, but they offer less options for authoring a DVD.

-tim





Philippe said:
Hi,

I would like to know if there's a way to distribute a power point
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presentation on a DVD, so that It could be read by any DVD player and
displayed on a television? Because some people would like to have my
presentation, but they don't have a computer.
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

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?

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

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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