PowerPoint to DVD burner tools

Time and time again, friends from Allexpert.com asked me how to burn PowerPoint presentations onto DVD. 
One of them created a compelling PowerPoint photo slideshow with music and movie clips embedded, but he had no choice but attached the huge package in the email to send it to others for sharing.
Another one is a teacher. He had to make a presentation at a place where there is no computer but only a DVD Player and TV.

So it is necessary to write a comprehensive guide to help guys to burn PowerPoint onto DVD for easily distribute and share.  

This guide will show you how to convert and save PowerPoint onto DVD. It includes the following 5 sections:

1. Use Windows movie maker to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD –Free
2. Use PPT to Video to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD –$49.95
3. Use PPT2DVD to burn PowerPoint to DVD directly – $99.95
4. Use Camtasia Studio to record PowerPoint as video to burn to DVD –$299.95
5. Mac users – Export PowerPoint/Keynote file to Quicktime video to burn to DVD

Part  1. Use Windows movie maker to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD –Free

Step 1. Save your PowerPoint slide show as “PNG” images.

Step 2. Import the pictures to your Windows Movie Maker

Step 3. Select all the imported images and add them to Storyboard

Step 4. Add video effects to the slides (Optional)

Step 5. Save the slide show as Movie File.

Part 2. Use PPT to Video to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD –$49.95

Download: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt-to-video-overview.html

Step 1. Select “PowerPoint to MPEG-2″ and Import PowerPoint files to PPT to Video

Step 2. Converting: Click ” Next ” until the converting starts

Step 3. Burn the converted video to DVD

Part 3. Use PPT2DVD to burn PowerPoint onto DVD directly – $99.95

Download: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html
Step 1: Import: You can import up to 9 presentation files at a time.

Step 2: Setting: Check the default settings and make some changes if needed

Step 3. Burn:  Burn to DVD with a DVD Burner( either PPT2DVD built-in burner or Nero)

Part 4. Use Camtasia Studio to record PowerPoint as video to burn to DVD –$299.95

Download: http://www.techsmith.com

Step 1. Set your computer display resolution as 800*600

Step 2. Save your PPT file as PPS file

Step 3. Set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen

Step 4. Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press “F9″ to start recording the screen

Step 5. When you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, so choose a directory and enter a filename.

Click “Save”. Camtasia will save your capture as an .AVI file.

Step 6. Then you can burn the video to DVD with Nero or Roxio

Part 5. Mac user – Use Quick time to convert PowerPoint to video to burn to DVD

Step 1. In Powerpoint, export your presentation as a Quicktime movie “PowerPoint Movie”

If you are using keynote, just export your presentation to Quicktime file directly

Step 2. Burn the Quicktime movie to DVD with your DVD burner.

1. Advantages and disadvantages
2. Method 1 is free but it will lost the transitions and animations in your original PowerPoint.
3. Method 2 is cheap and it can retain transitions and animations, but it can’t create DVD menus and retain the inner hyperlinks.
4. Method 3 has a medium price, it can burn PowerPoint to DVD with DVD Menus and retain the animations, transitions, sound and movie clips in the original PowerPoint file. (Recommended)
5. Method 4 is fairly expensive, but it has lots of other functions such as recording the screen.
6. Method 5 is free, but only for Mac users.

Related Blog: http://ppt2dvd.blogspot.com  http://blogs.digitalmediaonlineinc.com/powerpointtovideo/entry/20071211

Resource: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/blog/2007/12/11/5-methods-to-save-powerpoint-onto-dvd

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Make presentation with PowerPoint, show it on TVWondershare PPT2DVD 4.5 Released
Dec. 7th, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 4.5，an innovative yet affordable solution to bring your PowerPoint presentation out of the monitors, but onto DVDs.

Have this ever happened to you? You need to play a PowerPoint presentation at certain place but there is no PC available but only a DVD player. The presentation may be a product presentation, company presentation, trade mark display or educational presentation, in a word, it may be very important that you have to find out a solution to play it without computer. 

Another case is that you’ve created a compelling PowerPoint presentation with sound tracks and movie clips embedded, but have no choice but attach the huge package in the email to others for sharing, or carry your heavy box wherever you go. The problem is, what if the receipts or audience do not even have access to a pc, or might not have the right version of PowerPoint viewer, or have the attached media files lost during the delivery. Needless to say, the effort you spent on the presentations returned nothing to you but only complaints, pities, and lost opportunities.
Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first and so far the top innovative program that brings the idea to Convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD which is about to give an end to the above troublesome cases.  
As one of PPT2DVD users said: “THIS SOFTWARE IS AWESOME, you can burn directly to a Standard CD which or DVD, or create an ISO file, when 1st put in your DVD player you have the options to manually go through the slides or let it do it automatically, this software will be a great plus for business and education, hooking $1500 projectors to a computer will be a thing of the past, just use a $20 DVD player…. “ 

Key features of Wondershare PPT2DVD.1.     Convert PowerPoint to DVD, MiniDVD, HDTV 2.     Keep original PowerPoint animations, transitions, sound tracks, movie clips and even the inner hyperlinks in the resulting DVD movie.3.     Customize the DVD menu to create a real DVD that can be controlled using a DVD remote controller.4.     Convert to WMV, AVI, MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2) video. 

What’s new in PPT2DVD 4.5 1.    Automatically check PowerPoint file for errors to assure the best result2.    Flexible preview step to enable you to see the video quality before burning3.    Brand-new interface with easier step by step guideClick to learn more details about Wondershare PPT2DVD.http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html

Pricing and Availability:
Price: $99.95
Free Trial: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/powerpoint-dvd-download.php
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007

About Wondershare Software

Wondershare Software is an industry-leading desktop presentation application provider. Since its foundation, it has been specializing in providing powerful yet affordable multimedia presentation tools for home users, business people and educational professionals. Its product line includes flash presentation tools and video presentation tools. These tools offer users on-demand solutions with full controls to distribute presentations online and offline.

Benefits of burning trade show PowerPoint on DVD

Trade show often involves considerable marketing investment for participating companies. Costs include space rental, display design and construction, telecommunications and networking, travel, accommodations, promotional literature, and “give away” items. It is fairly high cost. So we are taking efforts to find a more economical solution to minimize the cost while retain or even increase the output.

By burning your trade show PowerPoint presentation on DVD, you can use big TV screen to show your tradeshow, which is more economical. You can also use a laptop to play the DVD and connect it to a LCD screen.

It is unattractive to distribute your product or company introduction on paper. Sometimes it is really boring. But if you put a DVD on audiences’ hands, they will be pleasant to accept it. So, don’t lose the chance to win the business opportunity. Burning your trade show presentation is essential.

Then, how to burn the trade show presentation on DVD?

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the very product that aims to do this kind of jobs.

As one of PPT2DVD users said:“ Wondershare PPT2DVD helped us won more business opportunities last year. Thanks a lot for this great software. ”

We are glad that PPT2DVD helps them so much.

If you are about to join a trade show, you should not hesitate to give it a try.

Free Trial http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt-to-video-overview.html

Learn More http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html

Make a merchandise presentation for Christmas promotion

As Christmas approach, suppliers and retailers are all busy making plans for the golden season. We all love it for its promotions and shopping opportunities.

To show your merchandise lively to customers, you may plan to make a merchandise presentation and show to customers on a big digital screen.
Do you know how to make this kind of presentation and how to put it on a digital screen?

You can buy services and equipments with thousands of dollars from companys that provide this kind of solutions. But that’s NOT what I recommend. There is a DIY solution which only cost about $100.

Now, let’s begin!

Step1: Preparation
Software: Microsoft PowerPoint, Wondershare PPT2DVD
Hardware: TV set, DVD Player

Step 2: Make the presentation
Make the product presentation with PowerPoint. You can add transitions, animations, sound and movie clips.

Step 3: Burn to DVD
Import: You can import up to 9 presentation files at a time.
Setting: At the “Play options” tab, make sure “Play the slides automatically” and “Loop Play” were checked.
Burn: Burn to DVD with a DVD Burner( either PPT2DVD built-in burner or Nero)

To learn more how to use PPT2DVD, please check here:
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/forum/topic2351.html

Step4: Connect the DVD Player to TV set
Make sure your DVD Player and the TV set are connected.
Insert the DVD to DVD Player, and the merchandise presentation can loop play continuously.

More advantages:
1. By putting the merchandise presentation on DVD, you can package it to the merchandise as a free gift.
2. You can also show your merchandise presentation anywhere with a portable DVD Player.

Downlaod Wondershare PPT2DVD: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/download.php

Have this ever happened to you? You’ve created a compelling PowerPoint presentation which is looking forward by lots of people, but you have no choice but attach the huge package in the email to others for sharing, or carry your heavy box wherever you go. The problem is, what if the receipts or audience do not even have access to a pc, or might not have the right version of PowerPoint viewer, or have the attached media files lost during the delivery. Needless to say, the effort you spent on the presentations returned nothing to you but only complaints, pities, and lost opportunities.

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first and so far the top program that brings the idea to Convert PowerPoint to DVD which is about to give an end to the above troublesome cases.

With Wondershare PPT2DVD, you can easily burn one or several PowerPoint presentations to a single DVD with the animations, transitions, audio tracks, video clips, action buttons, internal links in the original PowerPoint retained.

By burning PowerPoint presentations to DVD, you can get 5 benefits for distributing
1. No need computer, PowerPoint presentations can be watched on TV sets which can be easily found.
2. No need to worry the PowerPoint version and platform system differences, PowerPoint presentations can be viewed on any computer with Windows media Player or QuickTime player.
3. Bring PowerPoint presentations from online distribution to offline distribution through DVDs, Which is more stable and trustable to send your PowerPoint presentations.
4. It provided a solution to backup several PowerPoint presentations on one DVD.
5. It is accessible to send huge PowerPoint presentation above 100M.

What’s more, by burning PowerPoint presentations on DVD, you can not only play the presentations with a DVD Player on TV anywhere, but also control the playback just use a DVD remote. This is more acceptable by common users because it coincident to the custom.

Learn more about Wondershare PPT2DVD