Christmas ideas – Making Christmas card with PowerPoint and podcast it on YouTube

Christmas is around the corner! Want to wish your dear ones blessings of joy on this special day? Sending elegant Christmas cards may be a good idea. Especially with the development of the Internet, more and more people tend to send electronic cards instead of paper-based ones to their friends and relatives.

Compared to the traditional cards, ecards are lively and more environment friendly. Besides, it is faster to give your wish by sending an ecard than mailing a postcard. As PC computers getting popular in modern life, ecard is easy to be accessed.

There are many web sites online on which you may find thousands of stunning Christmas cards. But many of them are alike, and no one allows you to create your own. How about DIY your own Christmas ecards? It will be more fun and you are allowed to make full use of your imagination to make your own e-card as interesting as possible. Send the most sincere greetings to your dear ones. Now, let me show you the way of making your own Christmas card.

Since MS PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker are available on most computers, below is a way of how to make a special and lively Christmas card yourself with the help of these two tools step by step.
1. If you want to personalize a video in your Christmas card
You can make use of the free tool Windows Movie Maker which comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. You can either directly capture a video from the video capture device or make one with existing videos, pictures and music. After the video is OK, you can further add effects, transitions and titles to the video. In simply 3 steps, a personalized video will be created.

Below is an example of how to capture a video for your Christmas card with WMM:
 - Click Capture from video device in the Movie Tasks menu
 - In the coming page, you can set the Mic Volume and configure the camera & video settings

 - Click Next. Then you will be able to see a blank needs you to enter a file name for your captured video and the place you want to save it on your computer.

 - Click Next to continue. In the coming page, choose the video setting for your captured video. Choose Best Quality for Playback on my Computer is recommended.
 - Go on clicking Next to the last step. In this page, you can start to capture video by clicking Start Capture, end the capture by clicking Stop Capture.

 - After you have finished capture a video yourself, click Finish to end this process. The captured video will be displayed at the Collection area. Drag it to the video area in Timeline board. If you still want to add other pictures or music to form your video, you can do this by clicking Import Pictures and Import Audio or Music in the Movie Tasks menu. Then drag all of them to the corresponding area in Timeline board below.

Right click each object in the Timeline board. Then you will be able to set the Video Effects and the Play Timeline for them.
 - After you have adjusted all the settings for your video, you can save the video onto your computer by clicking Save Movie File in the File tab.

2. Form the content of your Christmas card with PowerPoint
As PowerPoint allows you to insert customized backgrounds, characters, pictures, animations, movies, and etc, you can take this advantage to make the content of your Christmas card colorful and meaningful. The video you made with Windows Movie Maker can also be inserted into the PowerPoint. Besides, you can input greetings and warm wishes into the PowerPoint.
In this process, you just need to make full use of your imagination to create the e- card.

3. Turn the PowerPoint you made to video format
The last step for making your own e- card is to convert the PowerPoint you made to video format. In this way, you can make your e- card look like a movie and upload it to websites such as YouTube for wide sharing. After that, you can send out your Christmas greetings just with a video or a website link.

Here you can try this tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, it is designed to convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.
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Here are two DIY Christmas cards from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SLY_HfO-pQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfvSOuwM_4&feature=related
Interesting? Take actions now, make Christmas ecard by yourself. Send out your warmest and most sincere greetings to your friends and relatives. Have a merry Christmas!

How to insert Flash Video to PowerPoint and convert PowerPoint to FLV

What is FLV video format?
FLV is the short term for Flash Video, a kind of video format that is accepted by many websites. Notable users of the flash video format include YouTube, Google video, Reuters.com, Yahoo video and My Space.

How to insert FLV into PowerPoint?
Now and then, you may find attractive videos in FLV format on the above websites such as YouTube. Want to embed them in your PowerPoint and share with others?
As FLV is a video format that PowerPoint doesn’t accept, before embedding a FLV video into PowerPoint, you should convert FLV movie to a video format that PowerPoint accepts such as MPEG, AVI, WMV and ASF. Below are three ways for you to do this:
1. If the FLV video is on YouTube or MySpace, follow these steps:
Copy the YouTube or MySpace video URL >>
Go to http://vixy.net (a free online conversion service), paste the URL in the conversion box >>
Select the output format such as AVI, MOV and MP4. Then click Start. The conversion process would be done automatically >>
When the conversion is done, download the output video to the local disk on your computer >>
Insert the video to PowerPoint ( PowerPoint -> Insert -> Movies and sounds -> Movie from File)


2. If the FLV video is already on your computer, visit http://www.media-convert.com/ (a free online conversion service) and follow these steps:
Browse your local disk and select the FLV video needs to be converted >>

Select the output format you want, and click OK button on the right >>
When the conversion process is over, download the converted video to your computer >>
Insert the video to PowerPoint ( PowerPoint -> Insert -> Movies and sounds -> Movie from File)

3. Use some conversion software to do this: If you have lots of FLV videos need to be converted, you can use some professional conversion tool to help you save your time, because many tools support batch conversion. You can try this one Video Converter. It can help you convert your FLV (YouTube) video to almost all other video formats.

After inserting Flash Video from popular video sites to your PowerPoint, have you ever thought you can also upload your PowerPoint to these popular video sites for wide sharing? You can click here to know more benefits of uploading PowerPoint to online-sharing websites.

As it has been mentioned above, YouTube, Google video, Reuters.com, Yahoo video and My Space all accept video formats in FLV. Before uploading your PowerPoint to these sites, you need to convert your PowerPoint to FLV first. Here are some tools you can use to convert your PowerPoint to FLV.
Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, Wondershare PPT to Video: help convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as FLV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.

After converting your PowerPoint to FLV, the next step is to upload the converted video to these websites. It’s all that easy. For more details about how to do it step by step, you can click here.

Choose the method you like to insert flash video to your PowerPoint, and convert your PowerPoint to FLV. Have more fun about it.

Use Product Presentation to Boom your Sale during Christmas

As Christmas is coming, most business men would like to bet their sales fortune on this shopping season. In order to attract prospects at the critical first impression, appealing presentations are important to presenting your products in the best light possible. Especially under such an economic circumstance, using some cost-effective ways to help you promote your product is meaningful.

Why use PowerPoint to help you promote your product:
1. PowerPoint is available on most computers. And with the development of information technology, product presentation has become a powerful ad format for presenting products or for special promotions.
2. You can broadcast your product presentation on big screens in the main streets, on mobile TV, on Internet and so on.
3. Compared to asking an advertising company to make advertisement for you, making PowerPoint ad by yourself may help you save a lot.

As it to how to make an effective product PowerPoint presentation to advertise your product, below are some points that Mark J. Tiedeman points out. (Note: Mark Tiedeman has over 25 years in the high-tech telecommunications industry including 15 years in senior product management and marketing roles. He has served as Vice President of Marketing at Copper Mountain Networks and at Tut Systems and is currently providing marketing and product management consulting services.)

Before starting any product presentation, you should know what the purpose of your presentation is. As a product presentation, the purpose is to enhance the value of the product that is perceived by the audience. Depending on the circumstance, some presentations will be more overt than others in persuasion style.

The next important thing is to fix who the audience is for your presentation. Product presentation audiences can be segmented as follows:
• Within your company: sales, sales engineer, customer support, marketing, product management
• Distribution or solution partner: sales, sales engineer, engineering, support, marketing, manager, executive
• Customer: purchasing, engineering, operations, support, manager, executive. Additionally, customers should be segmented, as appropriate, by market and/or application.
• Investors
• Industry and market analysts
• Media

For more details of how to create an effective product presentation by Mark J. Tiedeman, you can click here: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/4/4/0608mjt

A well-done product presentation is just the first step of making advertisement for your product. To present it in various ways is the final purpose of making the masterpiece. Only in this way, you can make the most of your product presentation and let more potential users get your promotion idea. Finally sell out your product. Regarding this, below I list some most effective ways to help you present your product presentation.
1. Convert your product presentation to video. Then you will be able to upload the converted video to website in the advertising area; broadcast your product presentation on digital signage indoors and outdoors; let people see your promotion on TV within transport vehicles.

Benefits of doing so: Creating video advertisement with PowerPoint yourself is much more cost-effective than asking a third-party company to do that. And PowerPoint is easy to deal with. You can fix the content you want to spread freely.
In order to do this, all you need is a PowerPoint converter that can help you concert your product presentation to video. There are many such tools in the market, but here I would like to recommend some tools that I have experienced and function well. Wondershare PPT to Video and Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter. They can help you convert your PowerPoint to MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP and MOV that can be accepted by almost all media.

2. Burn your product presentation to DVD. Then you will be able to send a DVD disc to your premium customers and agents to provide them the promotion information.
Benefits of doing so: compared with written promotion documents, DVD promotion slideshow can be accepted more intuitively, as there can be animation, pictures, transitions and even background music, videos in a PowerPoint.

Also, with a DVD disc, your agents can conveniently spread the promotion information to their stuff by playing it on a big screen.
Tool recommended: Wondershare PPT2DVD. With it, you can also create DVD menus for your presentations for quick navigation.

A great product presentation could be the power for your Christmas boom. Use all effective tools and resources as you can to drive up your Christmas business.

Tips for making PowerPoint courseware and how to distribute it

In modern education, PowerPoint is frequently used when preparing courseware. A judicious use of this tool helps guarantee a high-quality class. However, if it is used ineffectively, it can obscure teaching content, turn a great lesson into computer chaos. So using PowerPoint courseware effectively in teaching is very important.

Below are some main tips of ensuring a well-designed PowerPoint courseware.
1. Set Your Goals
Before starting any PowerPoint courseware, ask yourself a question, “What is the goal of this lesson?” Goal is the key. You cannot well organize your class without figuring out the goal of a lesson. Many educators suggest using an outline to list clearly what skill or knowledge is being assessed. Brainstorm in mind, and then outline your ideas in PowerPoint.
And, the most important thing, be sure to weigh content heavily in the assessment tool, don’t let style to take precedence over content.

2. Style Matters
Avoid using too many animations, clip art, backgrounds and so on. But keep in mind that a judicious use of those tools can be effective. Below is a research on under which set of conditions people learn best.
• Hearing spoken text and looking at graphics – 91% more learning,
• Looking at graphics alone – 63% more,
• Reading printed text plus looking at graphics – 56% more,
• Listening to spoken text, reading text, and looking at graphics – 46% more,
• Hearing spoken text plus reading printed text – 32% more,
• Reading printed text alone – 12% more,
• Hearing spoken text alone – 7% more.

3. Other tips of creating teaching presentations• Include only 3-7 points per slide and 3-7 words per bullet
• One theme or background; one font set; one text animation effect
• Avoid using complete sentences, using clause instead
• Don’t show all points on a slide at once, otherwise, students will read ahead and stop listening to the presentation
• Challenge students to use pictures in stead of text, initiate talking with students and among students

According to different teaching contents and teaching goals, pay attention to the tips above, I presume doing a successful PowerPoint courseware is not a hard thing.

After creating your wonderful PowerPoint courseware, you may sometimes receive appeals from your students and colleagues to share it, or you want to make your PowerPoint courseware be available online. The next and more important thing is to present and distribute it in a proper way so that more people can benefit from it. In the following, I would like to introduce some ways to help you distribute your PowerPoint courseware well.
1. Directly e-mail your PowerPoint courseware to others
It is a way that many people could think. And it is also easy to operate, just attach the PPT file and then send it to others via e-mail. But in this way, the people who receive it should have a MS PowerPoint installed computer. Besides, the PPT file sent to others could be modified by others.

2. Burn your PowerPoint courseware to DVD/CD
As DVD discs are convenient for sharing. Burning your PowerPoint to DVD/CD will be ideal for distributing your courseware. You no longer need to worry if others have PowerPoint installed or not because DVD discs are supported by most computers and players. You can click here to learn more about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD, and create eye-catching DVD menus for your presentations.

3. Convert your PowerPoint to video/flash, then upload it to website or blog
You may have your own website or blog, upload your PowerPoint courseware to it can make your students and others see your PowerPoint courseware as long as they visit your web page. In order to do this, you will need to convert your PowerPoint to video or flash first. Tools recommended: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, Wondershare PPT2Flash. You can click here to know more about the benefits of converting your PowerPoint to video.

4. Convert your PowerPoint courseware to PDF
PDF is accepted by many people as it is easy to open and can be printed easily. Convert your PowerPoint courseware to PDF is also a good idea to distribute your PowerPoint. You can click here to get the tool to convert your PowerPoint to PDF.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful teaching tool. It can greatly improve the efficiency of teaching. So take the advantages of PowerPoint courseware, make your class more interesting and let more people get your teaching ideas.

Create DVD Menus for Your Presentations

Burning PowerPoint to DVD is a good solution of preserving PowerPoint presentations and preventing them from being edited by others. Also, by burning PowerPoint to DVD is ideal for viewing PowerPoint presentations through various media. But have you ever thought that you can create DVD menus for your presentations to be viewed on TV with a DVD remote control just like a movie?
With eye-catching DVD menus, one can easily catch audience’s attention and set quick navigation for the PowerPoint presentations. Here below is a ready-made DVD menu for some PowerPoint presentations.


Also want to make one for your own presentations? So follow the step-by-step guide of how to burn PowerPoint to DVD with Acoolsoft PPT2DVD and create stunning DVD menus.
1. Install Acoolsoft PPT2DVD on your computer and open it. You can get it free from here.

2. Click Import button to choose the presentations you want to convert.

3. Click DVD Menu button on the top navigation, and then you will come to the DVD menu page. Click DVD Menu Creator button, then you will be able to start to customize the DVD menu for your presentations.

Here you can set the background, button style, frame style, icon style, caption and more to the current selected menu. In the preview area, it shows the preview for the current menu, and changes will be shown in real-time when you design it. Tool pane is used to set properties of current menu.

4. Tool Pane:

In the Background tab, you can choose a background for your menu from the gallery that the program itself offers, or choose one from your own computer. There are several different types of background for you to choose, including business/exhibition type, education/training type, holiday/celebration type, nature/environment type, religious/spiritual type and others.
You can also set background music for the current selected menu by clicking Background Music button.
In the Button Style tab, you can set the button style, frame style and the icon style for each of your menu. There are many different options for you. You can choose a proper one according to your own interest.
Apply to All is used to apply your settings to all your menus.



In the Caption tab, you can edit the caption of a selected object just as in word.
In Advanced tab, you can tick Disable this menu button to disable current menu, and you will need to select an action that will be taken at the end of show. In Menu Options, it lists the options on current menu. You can remove corresponding object by removing the tick of the item.

5. Want to see how the DVD menu you’ve created will work in real time? So follow this step. On the top right of the DVD Menu page, you can see a DVD remote control simulator.

This is a soft-remote-control integrated in menu simulator. You can find those buttons on normal DVD remote controls. The simulator includes four cross direction selection buttons, which allow you to select items on the menu, and the center one is the confirm button. The Menu and Title button are for switching to different menus when playing presentation.

6. Choose output options, video settings and advanced settings for your presentation and burn your PowerPoint presentations to DVD without attendance.

It’s all that easy to finish the whole process of designing specific DVD menu for your PowerPoint presentations. Start now, burn PowerPoint to DVD and enjoy the happy time it brings to you. Click here to learn more about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD.

Create Digital Photo Albums with PowerPoint 2007

You may have precious photographs or important business pictures from time to time. A PowerPoint photo album is just a presentation that helps you store and display these photos in a digital way.

Why we want to make photo album with PowerPoint?
1. PowerPoint is available on most computers. You don’t need to buy other software to make a photo album. It is easy and cost-effective to do it with PowerPoint.
2. Show your photos according to the sequence you like, make your memories more beautiful.
3. Besides photos, you can also add effects such as attention-grabbing slide transitions, colorful backgrounds, specific picture layouts and more into your PowerPoint photo album.
4. A photo album that is made in PowerPoint is easy for wide sharing.

Below is the step of how to create an attractive digital photo album with PowerPoint 2007 in 6 steps:
1. Open PowerPoint, on the Insert tab, click the Photo Album button, in the drop-down list, there is the New Photo Album option.


2. Insert pictures
Click File/Disc button. Choose pictures you want to include in the album from folders on your hard disc. (Tip: you can import several pictures to the album at a time)
In the photo album dialogue box, you will see the selected pictures in the Picture in Album list. You can view each picture by clicking it. And you can also change the order of a picture by choosing it and clicking the Move Up or Move Down button. Below the preview of the picture, you will be able to see six buttons, which you can use to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.


3. Create album layout
Under Album Layout, by clicking Picture layout arrow, and then in the drop-down list, you can choose the layout format you like. By clicking Frame Shape arrow, in the drop-down list of it you can choose the frame you want to add to your pictures.

4. Create title and subtitle for your album
After you have clicked Create button, on Slide 1, type the title you want for your album in the place of the words of Photo Album. Then if necessary, give your album a subtitle by inputting it in the place of your user name.
Display Slide 2, click the title placeholder, and then type the title for this slide.

5. Edit the photo album
On the Insert tab, click the Photo Album arrow, and then click Edit Photo Album.
In the Edit Photo Album dialog box, under Picture Options, select Captions below All pictures box, and then click Update.

Now you can edit the file name below each picture with a suitable caption.

6. Apply a theme to your album
On the Design tab of PowerPoint, in the Themes area, select a theme that meets the need of your album.
Or you can also customize the look of your album by choosing a theme from your computer.

Now you have finished making your own PowerPoint photo album. Want to e-mail it to your friends or colleague? Want to share it with others? Or you want to keep it for permanent store? Below are a few tips about how to do this.
1. E-mail your photo album to others
Maybe you will find that the photo album is in a huge size due to the mountainous images added in it, and you can’t send it properly via e-mail. In order to reduce the size of it, you can use compressed pictures in your photo album.
How: Open bitmap image with a program that converts images and save the image in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf. Once your image has been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your photo album.
Here is an article tells how to reduce the file size of a PowerPoint

2. Share your photo album with others
You can upload your beautiful photo album to some online sharing websites, such as YouTube. Let more people enjoy it or let your friends view your photo album online.
How: Convert your Photo album to a certain format that YouTube accepts. Then upload it with your YouTube account.
Tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter
It helps you easily convert your photo album to WMV, AVI, MOV, and MPEG formats that can be accepted by YouTube. After the conversion, you can directly upload it.
Click here to get the tutorial about how to do it

3. Keep your photo album for permanent store
The photo album you make maybe valuable and meaningful. In order to store it and prevent it from being edited by others, so far the best way I know maybe is to record it on a DVD disc. As we know things stored in a digital way could be easily lost.
How: Use some professional tool to help you burn your photo album to DVD such as the PowerPoint to DVD tool from Acoolsoft.
Click here to get the tutorial about how to do it

To view the finished PowerPoint photo album is an enjoyable thing. The process of making it is also interesting. So, when are you going to create your next photo album? Very soon, I presume.

A Few Tips to Reduce PowerPoint File Size

Greta Williams has a large PowerPoint slideshow which weighs about 26MB and he is looking for ways to compress the PowerPoint file and share it as an email attachment.

Before finding methods to resolve this problem, it is essential to know why PowerPoint file size would grow so large and then take actions to compress it. Through analysis, we find that one obvious reason is that there are many high-resolution images and photographs in the presentation.

Regarding this problem, the following paragraphs will list some tips to help reduce the size of PowerPoint presentations.
1. Use compressed graphics file formats to reduce the size of PowerPoint
There may be many images in graphic formats like bitmap (.bmp) in your PowerPoint presentation. The suggestion is to open bitmap image with a program that converts images and save the image in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf. Once your image has been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your slide. If you do this for all your images, your presentation will be much smaller and it will run smoothly and fast.

2. Save your presentation a second time to reduce the size of PowerPoint
Open your presentation, go to File (2003)/Office Button (2007) >> Save As… and give it another name. Then click “Save”.
Doing this you will have a second presentation that often is smaller than the original copy. This is because PowerPoint usually stores lots of redundant information such as earlier drafts and previous used images. Once you save it as another file, the unnecessary redundant information would be purged.

3. Choose E-mail (96 ppi) output to reduce the size of PowerPoint
Picture Tools >>Format >> Compress Pictures >> Options >> Target Output >> E-mail (96 ppi)

(For PowerPoint XP and 2003, right-clicking the image >>Format Picture >> Compress >> Web/Screen)
This would change all the pictures used in your presentation to an optimal size.

4. Insert a hyperlink instead of inserting an object to reduce the size of PowerPoint
When you insert an image, you have the option to insert it either as an embedded object or as a linked file. By inserting it as a linked file means it will not become a part of the final presentation file. But you should always make sure that the linked file is with you and in the computer where you will run the presentation. Otherwise, the hyperlink won’t be working.
Insert >> Picture >> From File >> Select the image you want to insert >> Click the little down arrow besides Insert >> Link to File

The tips above are only the basic steps for reducing the size of a PowerPoint. In tip4, hyperlinks wouldn’t work if the computer where the presentation will be played is not connected to Internet, thus lots of inconvenient you may confront with.

In order to quickly and effectively compress your presentation to a minimum, converting the PowerPoint presentation to video with a third-party tool such as Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter will be a good choice. And it is especially suitable for the presentations that contain lots of pictures. By doing so, the file size could be reduced to up to 90%.

Besides the advantage of reducing file size, converting your PowerPoint presentation to video also has many other benefits:
1. Enable you to view your PowerPoint presentations without the need of MS PowerPoint. Windows Media Player would be OK.
2. Podcast PowerPoint slide show to iTunes or your own blog for sharing.
3. Show your PowerPoint presentations on YouTube, Google Video, etc.
4. Review PowerPoint presentations on iPod/iPhone/Pocket PC.
5. Create mp4 video and view PowerPoint presentation on TV.

About Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter:
It is an all-in-one PowerPoint to video converter. With only 3 clicks, you can convert PowerPoint presentations to video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, 3GP with high quality.

Screenshots:



Recommended video settings:
Resolution: 640 * 480
Frame Rate: 20fps

After you have used the methods above, your PowerPoint presentation should now be light and more manageable. It’s now your time to share it with others and enjoy the fun that PowerPoint brings to you.

PowerPoint show to DVD slide show--- PPS to DVD

Most PowerPoint users know that PowerPoint presentations are usually saved in PPT format. Some of you may have received presentations that can be played directly when you click to open. Those files are in PPS format, namely PowerPoint show. A PPS is just a PPT file with a different file extension that tells PowerPoint opened directly into the slide show view pattern, not the editing view pattern. You can change it by renaming the file extension.

Despite the advantages we can see of a PPS file, there are also many disadvantages of a PPS file:
1. You'll either need MS PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer to view these files. So it may be inconvenient for viewing a PPS file.
2. System language could also be a problem, that is, if the language of one presentation is in Japanese, Spanish or some other ones, when viewing it under the English Windows, all the content would become a mess.
3. A PowerPoint show made in PowerPoint2007cannot be viewed under PowerPoint 97-2003, unless you save it as a PowerPoint 97-2003 presentation, but some great features will lose.

Regarding the deficits of PPS mentioned above, you can convert the PowerPoint to flash, turn PowerPoint to PDF, or burn PowerPoint to DVD/video. PDF is ideal for static slide shows, only images and text will be retained. Converting PowerPoint to flash is great for presentations that contain external hyperlinks, linked files, like Word or Excel files. But, so far, no PowerPoint to flash tool can retain all animations in PowerPoint. As to me, I prefer to burn PowerPoint show to DVD movies or convert to video. Below are some main benefits of burning a PPS to DVD:
1. Easy for delivery. After converting PPS to DVD, you do not need to worry the loss of sounds and videos contained in your presentation.
2. By converting PPS to DVD, you can view the PowerPoint presentation with a DVD player or DVD machine. It is great for long time preservation.
3. After converting PPS to DVD, you can give your presentations to your audience without worrying about it being modified without permission.
4. By converting the PPS file to video formats, the file size would be much smaller, and you can also mail it to others conveniently.

Usually there are two ways for us. The free way is to use Windows Movie Maker. But, there is no free lunch in the world. By using Windows Movie Maker, all the animations in the original presentation will be lost after the conversion. Below are the steps of how to do it.
Step1. Save your PowerPoint slide show as "PNG" images.
Step2. Import the pictures to your Windows Movie Maker
Step3. Select all the imported images and add them to Storyboard
Step4. Add video effects to the slides (Optional)
Step5. Save the slide show as Movie File.

In order to get a higher quality, another way to do this is to use some specific PowerPoint to DVD software to help us do this directly. Search “PowerPoint to DVD” in Google, and you will get many advises. Recently, I have experienced 2 PowerPoint burning software.
1. Acoolsoft PPT2DVD


2. Wondershare PPT2DVD


They both are companies that have been dedicating in developing PowerPoint to DVD software. Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is more innovative, while Wondershare PPT2DVD is more sophisticated.
Common characters of these two tools:
• Work smoothly with Microsoft Office 2000/2002/2003/2007 and Vista
• Retain animations, transitions, sound tracks, movie clips and the inner hyperlinks from the original presentation
• Able to create professional look DVD menus
• Burn to DVD/HD-DVD with built-in DVD/CD burning program
• Support batch conversion
Difference:
The user interface of Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is more intuitive,cool black, users can even see the thumbnails of the inputted presentations; Wondershare PPT2DVD’s user interface is designed more focused on step-by step conversion.

Click here to learn more about how to burn PowerPoint to DVD/CD

How to view PowerPoint on YouTube

YouTube-A global video-sharing website
As a free online video streaming service, YouTube allows anyone to view and share videos that have been uploaded by its members.

Show your PowerPoint slides on YouTube
Maybe many people would say that having our videos play on YouTube is rather cool, then how about uploading PowerPoint presentations to YouTube? Wouldn't that wow your friends and make you look more professional and attractive on the Internet? And why don't you take a little time to learn how to add slideshows to a YouTube?

How to upload PowerPoint to YouTube?
YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the WMV, AVI, MOV, and MPEG file formats. But PowerPoint presentations are not video formats and Microsoft itself also doesn't support the conversion. So we need third party software to complete this process.
When we do the conversion, we also don't want to lose any voice, movies, animations and transitions in the original PowerPoint. The video converted should retain all the subtleties in the PowerPoint.
As to this matter, I recommend Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter! It is designed to help you easily convert your PowerPoint presentations to stunning videos. With only 3 clicks, you can convert PowerPoint presentations to video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV and 3GP with excellent quality.
More info: http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-video-overview.html
1. Install Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter on your computer.
2. Open it and then click Import to load the PowerPoint presentations you want to convert.

3. Click Output to set the output formats, I recommend MP4 or WMV format.

4. Click Start to start the converting.
5. Upload the converted video to YouTube.

Share with others
After you have uploaded the converted video, you can share your PowerPoint presentations with others, because each video on YouTube has a unique URL, you only need to tell your friend the address of your video. Or you can click the "Share" button at the bottom of the video player, and enter the email addresses or YouTube usernames of the people to whom you want to send. Then click the "Send “button and everything is done!

PowerPoint Password

Nowadays, I see many people complain about the security of PowerPoint. After having put much effort in perfecting a PowerPoint, we finally find that it has been changed by someone else. If such thing happened to you, what would you be? How to protect your PowerPoint?
As to this matter, I would like to list some common ways to protect your PowerPoint presentations from being edited by others without permission.
1. To set a password to protect PowerPoint
>> In PowerPoint 2003:
1) Open the presentation that you want to set a password for.
2) On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Security tab.
3) Need to set a password to open the presentation, type a password in the Password to open, and then click OK.
4) Need to set a password to modify the presentation, type a password in the Password to modify box, and then click OK.
5) In the Confirm Password dialog box, retype the password, and then click OK.


>> In PowerPoint 2007:
1) Open the presentation that you want to set a password for.
2) Click the Office Button, and then click Prepare.
3) Go into the Encrypt Document, and then type the password you want to set, and click Ok.
4) Reenter the password in the blank followed, and then click OK.
5) Or click Restrict Permission, people can get access to your PowerPoint but can not edit, copy or print it.
6) Furthermore, you can click Mark as Final, after this, you will only be able to read it in the future.


2. Tips when creating a password to protect PowerPoint:
Long passwords can help secure a document, but be sure to create a password that you can remember. Microsoft itself cannot provide assistance to open or modify a presentation whose password you don't remember. But a tool could help you to recover the password with a little cost. PowerPoint Password Recovery PRO is an effective solution for Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that recovers all types of lost or forgotten passwords to open and modify files and supports all versions of Microsoft PowerPoint, including 2003.

3. To convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD/CD to protect your PowerPoint
>> Why: One can edit a PowerPoint presentation, but cannot modify the content in the DVD. Sharing with others and also protecting PowerPoint presentations from unauthorized editing.
>> How: (recommend)
Use a professional conversion tool to help you. Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is an innovative tool helps you easily to convert your PowerPoint presentations to dynamic DVD movies with a high quality. The final output will retain all subtleties from the original presentation, including animations, transitions, sounds, video clips, and even hyperlinks between slides.
>> Screenshot:


>> More information about this tool:
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html

Business PowerPoint Presentation Tips

As a part of the Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint has become the world's most widely used presentation program. It is widely used by business people, educators, students, trainers to make presentations. With this tool, one can easily and clearly display text, graphics, movies, and other objects in the form of a slide show. Whether it is used to prepare for a meeting, an exhibition or a course, PowerPoint helps us a lot.

In business areas, Microsoft PowerPoint especially makes us convenient in organizing all kinds of activities. Here I would list some top tips for creating successful business presentations.

Tip1. Present Your Topic by Using Key Phrases: Use key phrases that include only essential information. Choose only the top points about your topic and make them consistently throughout the delivery. Simplify and limit the number of words on each slide.

Tip2. Avoid Using Fancy Fonts: Choose a font that is simple and comfortable for audience to read such as Times New Roman and Arial. Use, at most, two different fonts. Keep all fonts large enough (at least 24 pt and preferably 30 pt) so that people at the back of the conference room will be able to see clearly what is on the screen.

Tip3. Make the Text's Color and Background's Color Contrastive: Dark text on a light background is best. Patterned or textured backgrounds would reduce the readability of text. Keep the color scheme consistent throughout your business presentation.

Tip4. Use Templates Effectively: When using a template, choose one that is appropriate for the content. A simple, straightforward layout is best if you are presenting to business clientele. The following maybe a choice

Download from: http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/business-3-289.htm

For more free business PowerPoint templates:

http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/free_business_powerpoint_template.htm

Tip5. Limit the Number of Slides: Do not try to insert too many slides, make sure that the presentation will not become too long. It also avoids the problem of continually changing slides during the business presentation. On average, one slide per minute is right.

Tip6. Try to Use Photos, Charts and Graphs: Embedding photos, charts, graphs and even digitized videos will add variety and keep your audience interested in the presentation. Avoid using only text in your slide.

Tip7. Avoid Cluttering Up with Too Many Transitions and Animations: While transitions and animations can attract your audience's interest in the business presentation, too many of them would distract your audience from what you are saying.

Tip8. Make Sure Your Business Presentation Can Run On Any Other Computers: Try to use PowerPoint's Package for CD (PowerPoint 2003) or Pack and Go (PowerPoint 2000 and before) feature when trying to burn your presentation onto a CD. Besides your presentation, a copy of Microsoft's PowerPoint Viewer is added to the CD to run PowerPoint presentations on computers that haven't installed PowerPoint. But for presentations containing sounds and video clips, this is not a good idea, because all of them will be lost after packing to CD.

You can also burn your PowerPoint to DVD with a professional conversion tool. Acoolsoft PPT2DVD would be a good choice. Compare with the CD packing feature of PowerPoint, burn presentations to DVD with this tool can retain all sounds and videos and even internal links (links between slides)!

Detailed information of this tool, please click:

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

Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0 Released - Burn PowerPoint to DVD

News from: http://www.ppt-to-video.com/blog/acoolsoft-ppt2dvd-20-released-burn-powerpoint-to-dvd.html

April 28th, 2008 - Acoolsoft, which is absorbed in developing the best presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 2.0, an innovative yet economical solution to bring your PowerPoint presentation out of the monitors, but onto DVDs. Since its initial release on 2007, it has won tons of praises and received lots of Suggestions. After 5 months developing, it finally upgraded from 1.x to 2.0 with great improvements.

What's new in Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0?
Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is the best tool to burn PowerPoint to DVD with excellent quality. It can retain all the animations, transitions, audio tracks, video clips, action buttons, internal links and other things you've added to the presentation, and generate DVD Menus to enable you to control the playback with a DVD remote. It is used by more and more teachers, sales people, presenters and even individuals who want to share or distribute their PowerPoint slide show more conveniently.The newly released Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0 has been enhanced with flexible DVD Menus, additional PowerPoint to video functions, latest Blu-ray technology, and new encode engine for higher conversion speed. There improvements will make the PowerPoint to DVD conversion more efficient and more flexible.
Here are the main upgrades which are genuinely useful and keep the
Program standing on the top over the competitors:

1. Refreshing User Interface(Cool black and easy to understand)

2. Burn PowerPoint presentation to DVD disc with improved video quality

3. The conversion process is more stable and fast

With higher conversion speed, PPT2DVD 2.0 saves 50% time for you.

4. Reasonable DVD menu editor
You know one of the best ways to enjoy your video on channel with others is the DVD format, and an important part of making a DVD experience enjoyable is incorporated the useful and understandable menu.PPT2DVD 2.0 will guide you to where you want!

5. Create eye-popping menus with free backgrounds, frames and buttons
Have you ever wondered how to create stunning, professional-looking interactive DVD menus to make your PowerPoint presentation more attractive, just like the ones on the DVDs you buy?

The new version offers you an enhanced rang of menu materials including backgrounds, frames, buttons and text customizing, which will let you get creative when authoring your DVD PowerPoint presentation. Features include:
- Amazing picture backgrounds
- Flexible menu buttons
- Professional � Looking frames
- Customizing text
- Flexible frame-capturing function to apply any captured frame as the thumbnail image on the menu

6. Support 12 PowerPoint files batch process at a time

7. Accurately synchronization of sound and animation

8. Fully compatible with Windows Vista, PowerPoint 2007

9. It can retain the video full screen play and loop setting if set in original PowerPoint presentation

What is Acoolsoft PPT2DVD?
Acoolsoft PPT2DVD does only one thing: Burn PowerPoint presentation to DVD with the best solution! Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is a powerful presentation tool which helps you burn PowerPoint presentations to DVD without any complicated technical skills. The wizard of PPT2DVD can walk you through the steps to create DVD presentation out the PowerPoint and enjoy your Presentation on TV with only a DVD player.

Why you need to burn PowerPoint presentations on DVD?
- Showing presentations without the need of a computer
- Create your own Toast DVD menu style
- Distributing your slideshows to friends and colleagues on DVD Unattended
- exhibition presentations on big screen
- Giving your presentations a TV feel
- Creating professional looking presentations Ensuring that everyone can view your presentations (no matter whether they have PowerPoint installed on their computers)
- Protecting PowerPoint presentations from unauthorized editing

Click to learn more details about Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0.
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-overview.html

Download PPT2DVD 2.0:
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-dvd-download.html

Here is a sample from YouTube

Acoolsoft will Release PPT2DVD 2.0 This Sunday

News from Acoolsoft Official blog:

After nearly a half year's dedication of developing a more innovative and professional PowerPoint to DVD conversion tool, Acoolsoft is about to release its new version of PPT2DVD 2.0 on April 20th, this Sunday.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful tool to create professional looking presentations and slide shows. PowerPoint allows you to construct presentations from scratch or by using the easy to use wizard.And a number of people in the world are burning PowerPoint to DVD, not only because we live in a world with the mentality of a herd, everyone else wants to do this; There are must be some advantages to do so. We don't want discuss that to much here, you can view this article "PowerPoint burning software review" have a better understand.

Let's rapt our time to have a quick a look of the Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0.

It's said the newly released Acoolsoft PPT2DVD 2.0 has been enhanced with innovative DVD Menu Creator, and new coding engine for high conversion speed and output quality. The improvements will make the PowerPoint to DVD conversion more efficient and effective.

The most highlight improvements are the User interface and DVD menu design. Here are some screenshots:

Start the program:
Refreshing User Interface

Reasonable DVD menu editor

Advanced Settings

Hope the release of PPT2DVD 2.0 this Sunday will give all of us a different feeling and experience, what's more important, make our presentation more Powerful and interesting.

PPS to dvd - convert pps file to MPEG

Resources:

http://www.ppt-to-video.com/blog/pps-to-dvd.html

Someone asked me about how to burn PPS to DVD or convert PPS(PowerPoint) files to MPEG video that can be burned to DVD!

A PPS is just a PPT file with a different file extension that tells PowerPoint "Open me directly into slide show view, not editing view." You can "convert" from one to the other simply by renaming the files. You need the same software to view either one.

Here are some questions and solutions, hope it can help you:
Q:Is there anyone here that can help me? I'm trying to take a slide show I created for and burn it to a DVD that will then play in a DVD player (I have pictures and music both embedded in the .pps)
Thanks.
A:If what you want to do is just a data back up, and you don't need to play your PowerPoint with a DVD player, common burning software is enough and No matter it is a CD or DVD. DVD disc have more space compare to CD.
If you want to watch PowerPoint on TV with a DVD player, here some aspects you need to pay attention to:
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).

The only way to burn pps to DVD is to get specific PowerPoint to DVD software.
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoi…-overview.html

the other option is to use Windows Movie Maker but you would have to start from scratch and insert all the pictures onto it. I believe Windows XP and Windows Vista came with this free software so you probably have it. You click on Import Media and select the pictures you want (press Ctrl to select individual pictures). You can then use the Auto Movie button to add credits, music and transitions to your movie. Then burn it to DVD.

Q:I'm hoping to help a friend, who has to give a presentation, to convert a Powerpoint (.pps) file to either an MPEG file or, if possible, directly to a DVD format file. I downloaded a "Trial Version" of "Presentersoft PowerVideoMaker" and successfully converted the PPS file into MPEG format, which I then created a DVD with using my "Movie Factory" software. Unfortunately, both the MPEG file and the resultant DVD had a flashing notice on the bottom right corner of the video that it was "created with an unlicensed version of PowerVideoMaker". Since this will most likely be the only time that I will ever need to convert a PPS file, it really doesn't make sense for me to spend $ 125 CAD to buy the licensed version of PowerVideoMaker. So my question is this: Is anyone aware of any freeware available to convert PPS files to either MPEG's, AVI's or directly to DVD format?
A:There is no such thing as a free lunch if you want to get a better result! A trial program is much better.
and I must say I've never been that impressed with the results of any of the capture software I've tried, I can't say I'm that surprised, bearing in mind what must be the CPU load when both displaying PowerPoint and capturing a full screen. Even with a beast of a machine (Dual 2Ghz Athlon, 2Gb RAM, RAID array, 128Mb VGA) running at 800×600 and with all the performance boosting suggestions I've only ever achieved an unsatisfactory frame rate of approx 15fps. I can only increase the frame rate by reducing the resolution. Both options, in my opinion, are unsatisfactory when you consider that the media is DVD and capable of much more…
Am I missing something? I've used 3 methods to create DVDs that I've found more satisfactory than my screen capture results:
1) connecting the S-video out from a laptop to a domestic DVD recorder (i.e. one that records DVDs like a VCR). The DVD can then be taken to the PC, ripped and authored as desired.
2) Same process but capturing the video on another PC through an MPEG2 capture device, such as the the Win-TV PVR. I'm not 100% happy with these processes either, as it involves conversion to analogue video and back to digital, but the results have been far superior to my efforts with capture software.
3) Use Acoolsoft PPT2DVD and burn PowerPoint(PPS) to DVD directly, great and easy way buy you have to pay for this program, anyway, it's worth the money if you want to get a wow presentaion on TV with a DVD disc.

Enjoy your time and presentation!

PPT2DVD - PPT to DVD with DVD menu enhanced

PPT2DVD - PPT to DVD with DVD menu enhanced
 

Burning PowerPoint to DVD is a good idea for preserving presentations or extending the use of PowerPoint. You can either burn PowerPoint files to DVD disc directly, or convert it to video or DVD and then burn them to DVD disc. Converting PPT to DVD is different from converting PPT to video. To know the benefits of converting PowerPoint presentation to DVD comparing with converting to video, the best way is to understand the DVD structure.

The DVD menu matters

When we play a video DVD with DVD machine, in most conditions, we see a main menu first, which allows us to decide how the movie will be played: Select subtitle language, choose a conversation language, start from a specific chapter, etc. While playback, we can use navigation buttons on the remote control to rewind or skip through movies. Also, we can back to title menu or main menu to play another movie or chapter. The menu function is not supported by common video files.  Let's back to PowerPoint presentation. When we slide show with PowerPoint, we can advance presentation animation by animation and slide by slide, moreover we can build internal hyperlinks to go to a specific slide and turn back. With DVD menu, all these practical features will be inherited.  But a raw video has no way to retain them.

Understanding DVD structure

What does a DVD disc contain? Actually, if you open a movie DVD disc on your computer, you should see two folders: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. AUDIO_TS is created for storing DVD Audios (for audio DVD only), while the VIDEO_TS contains all data for the movie. Video DVD is what we concerned in this article, so let's take a look at the data contained in VIDEO_TS directory.

Usually, we should find three kinds of files under the VIDEO_TS: .BUP, .IFO and .VOB. IFO file is the content of the DVD. It tells the player where a chapter starts, where a certain audio or subtitle stream is located, etc. BUP files are just backup files of the IFOs. If the IFO files cannot be read, the player will read the BUP files instead. Next is the VOB file, it is a container that stores video stream, audio stream, subtitles and DVD menu. Video is MPEG-2, audio can be AC-3, Linear PCM, Mpeg 2 multichannel or MPEG1 layer2 two channel audio. It is why the DVD is encoded in MPEG-2 but not a MPEG-2 video.

Things about PowerPoint

Now, let's back to PowerPoint. If we burn a PowerPoint presentation to DVD disc in manual mode, we can use DVD remote control to navigate the converted video just like we doing so with PowerPoint. A professional PPT to DVD conversion tool should empower users to create and designed DVD menu.  The following illustration shows the title menu of a DVD, which is created by Acoolsoft PPT2DVD.

Here is the screenshots of Main page and ending page menu

Tools of burning PowerPoint presentation to DVD

There are many tools out there that are able to convert PowerPoint to DVD. The most famous one is Camtasia produced by Tech Smith, which is the leader in screen capturing field. Converting PPT to DVD is only a special function of the software. It may produce DVD video, but the menu design feature is not as good as Acoolsoft PPT2DVD, which is a professional tool in the world that is specialized in converting PPT to DVD with DVD menus. It retains most PowerPoint interactive features to the converted DVD video. Besides, it provides a way to burn PowerPoint presentations to HD DVD, like Blu-ray DVD.

Try it now!

Fw: PowerPoint backup to DVD and CD

How can I package my PowerPoint to a CD or DVD disc?
I am preparing PowerPoint presentations for my Classmates at our 50th High School Reunion. I need to know if I can burn PowerPoint to DVD and these will play on TV's & Computers for my Classmates.
Would like to play a PowerPoint presentation at a birthday party but no pc will be available only a DVD player?
...
These are common questions often asked by a lot of people, if you have ever lost your valuable PowerPoint presentation because your computer crashed or had one of your PowerPoint file ruined, and you are ready for an important presentation, but your PowerPoint cannot open. Then you know the value of having a backup copy and you may just want to play your PowerPoint on TV without a computer or PowerPoint program installed.
If you haven't experienced this yet, it's just a matter of time.

So it's time for us to tell you some tips and tricks about PowerPoint backup to a CD or DVD disc. Before we start, some questions needed to be figured out first .I split this tips into several parts:

Difference between a CD and DVD disc
Can I play PowerPoint with DVD player after I burn PowerPoint to CD or DVD?
How can I play PowerPoint on a CD or DVD player?
How to package and copy a presentation to a CD or DVD in PowerPoint?
Protect your PowerPoint presentation
Burn PowerPoint to video DVD and watch it on TV with DVD Menus

What's difference between a CD and DVD disc?
CD is usually for computer files, music and pictures. DVD holds more, because they're for movies, animations, etc. You can use DVD to store data and music if you want to, but they're just a tad more expensive.

Both CD and DVD write data in "pits" on the surface of disc. But, DVD technology writes data in smaller pits to the recordable media than CD technology. Smaller pits mean that for the same available area, more data can be stored. Moreover, the available data area for DVD disc is larger than the one of CD. A recordable CD disc has the capacitance of 700MB, while a DVD-/+R disc has about 4.7GB. The DVD is 6 times more than the CD.

Can I play PowerPoint with DVD player after I burn PowerPoint to CD or DVD?
If what you do is just a data backup (PowerPoint has a function of "Package for CD", which I will explain later), the burnt CD or DVD cannot be played on DVD machines. For example, after burn PowerPoint files to CD and DVD directly with common burning software, like Nero, the burnt disc cannot be played using DVD machine, because they are only Data CDs or DVDs. DVD machine can only play video DVDs, just like CD players only play audio CDs with music tracks. Of course, they will work on your computer.

How can I play PowerPoint on a CD or DVD player?
So, from what we have discussed above, you must convert your PPT files to video first, 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).

Using Windows movie maker is a free way to save your PowerPoint to video format, but you may lose timings, animations, transitions and audio tracks that an engaging presentation should have. We will tell you how to do this in the other tip.
If you search through Google, you will find a lot of PowerPoint to video software, but not all of them works well for specific presentations and computers. Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter is a no time limit program. You can try it for free, before you decide to pay the bill.

How to package and copy a presentation to a CD or DVD in PowerPoint?
PowerPoint has an option "package for CD"; this function enables you to pack up PPT Viewer, presentation, and any collateral linked files (e.g., audio and video clips). Then you can burn the Viewer, presentation, and linked files to a CD or DVD disc. This helps you view PowerPoint on computer without PowerPoint program installed. Take PowerPoint 2007 for example:

Firs Click "Office Button", then "Publish", Now "Package for CD".



Now there will be a dialog box which you can make some choices:



It's easy for you to add some other PowerPoint files, but they will be adjusted automatically to the format which can be opened on PowerPoint viewer (PowerPoint viewer cannot cope with PowerPoint 2007 files). You can also choose to copy to folder or CD.

You must understand this is just a simple data backup, so you can only open you PowerPoint presentation on a Computer with CD & DVD recorder. You can't play it with a DVD player or CD player.

Protect your PowerPoint presentation
Someone may want to prevent their Presentations from unauthorized accessing or editing. Luckily, "Package for CD" enables you to do it easily.

Just Click "Options" on the right of dialog box:

There are two options, one is used to protect from opening with password, the other is used to protect from editing.
Now you know how to protect your PowerPoint from unauthorized opening or editing.
Another method is converting PowerPoint to video and burn PowerPoint to video CDs and video DVDs with software like Acoolsoft, which we have discussed above.
Enjoy yourself.

Ok, here are some questions, some of you may be encounter strange problems, the most we often heard is every thing goes ok when view PowerPoint on the computer you used to package for CD. But some files cannot open when you insert the CD into other computer. That because you didn't put the link files and PPT files in the same folder when you package PPT to CD. It's only a link to the file on your computer but not include in your CD or the folder you packaged.  Of course, you can't open it on other computer.
So make sure you put everything in the same folder when you decide to burn your wonderful PowerPoint presentations to CD and share with others.

Burn PowerPoint to video DVD and watch it on TV with DVD Menus
You cannot burn PowerPoint to DVD directly and play it with a DVD player, because PowerPoint is not MPEG-2 Video formats which you can burn to disc directly with common burning software like Easy Media Creator, Power2Go and so on. You need certain software to convert your PowerPoint to MPEG-2 or that software has the function of burning PowerPoint to DVD directly. Here is a tip which introduces at least 5 methods to burn PowerPoint to video DVD.

But some one may wondering about how to create DVD menus when burning to DVD so that we can control our presentation when we are showing in on TV or big screen with DVD player.

Microsoft office does not include software to assist you, today, there are no freeware utilities that perform this activity for you, but there are many commercial packages available that have free trial periods.
Software of this type ranges in price from $40 - $200 for personal licenses, and much more for commercial or multi-user licenses. Here I recommend you take Acoolsoft PPT2DVD to have a try!

Acoolsoft PPT2DVD is a powerful presentation tool that lets you convert PowerPoint presentations to video and burn it to DVD without any complicated technical skills. You can even create flexible DVD Menus for your PowerPoint presentations to play on TV with a DVD remote control.

And you can check another article to know more about some top PowerPoint burning software.

PowerPoint on YouTube - Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube v1.1.0 released

February 21st, 2008, Acoolsoft officially released its new version of PPT2YouTube 1.1.0 with improved quality!
Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube is a professional tool which helps you upload PowerPoint to YouTube.
You only need to import your PowerPoint files and click start. A wonderful YouTube video clip will be created with animations, transitions, and audio tracks retained.
You can enjoy your PowerPoint on YouTube with excellent quality now!

What's new in version 1.1.0
1. Highly optimized working efficiency
with the new algorithm; the working efficiency of PPT2YouTube has been improved dramatically, about 30% faster than the previous version.
2. Crystal clear image quality
the new version is able to produces high quality video from PowerPoint presentations. And the video definition has been increased from 320×240 to 640×480 (4 times greater).
3. Refreshing user interface
You will see big changes when reach to the result page. Uploading video to YouTube is one-click away!

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"I am always wondering how to upload my PowerPoint to YouTube. I failed to upload it directly. YouTube accepts only video format! Now thanks to Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube, I can share my PowerPoint on YouTube with only a few simple steps. Microsoft PowerPoint is a great and easy presentation tool. With PPT2YouTube, everyone can make a wow presentation and upload it to YouTube!", said Judith, one of YouTube fans, who is also crazy about making stunning PowerPoint presentations.

The video converted from PowerPoint is ready for you to upload to YouTube with the best quality. Our engineers have tested thousands of times for resizing the video to certain specifications. It guarantees that your video looks better on YouTube.

YouTube accepts single video clip which is less than 10 minutes, smaller than 100MB, and in specific formats. The video file converted by Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube has much smaller file size than that of common video files, so that you can upload quickly.
If you want to know specific details about PowerPoint on YouTube, you can take a view of this artilce: Tutorials about uploading PowerPoint to YouTube

Now try the new version of PPT2YouTube today, share your PowerPoint presentation on YouTube for the world to see! With this product, you can also upload PowerPoint to other video site like MySpace, Google video , Bebo and so on.
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