3 Ways to Convert PowerPoint to video

With the advent of the internet technology, more and more people tend to upload their excellent PowerPoint presentation onto internet to handily share their opinions, innovations, wisdom and creative with the people all over the world. But if we'd like to achieve this goal, one of the most effective ways is convert PowerPoint to the video format that can be widely delivered and shared.

Therefore, in recent years, Converting PowerPoint to video has been the hot topic on Internet. Put this phrase into Google, you can easily get a huge number of web links there. Comparing with PowerPoint, video has more advantages for circulating presentation online or offline, video can be played directly on every computer and Internet while PowerPoint has many limitations; video can only be played and hardly to be edited by others; the size of the converted Flash presentation can be reduced to almost 80%.

When searching news or information, we disposed to accept the videos because it is very concrete and intuitive, But when we want to show our opinions we usually make a PowerPoint presentation because it is easier than making a video. Is there any good solution to combine the advantages of PowerPoint and video?  Yes, there are 3 ways which carefully chosen for you to convert PowerPoint to video! You will find the best one that most suit your taste!

3 ways to convert PowerPoint to video for your reference

Part 1. Using Wondershare PPT to Video Converter

In my experience, the Wondershare PowerPoint to video converter is considered as a quite nice tool which can convert PowerPoint to video with all the animations, transitions, sounds, video clips retained in the output. It is able to offer you the convenient way convert PPT to almost all video formats like AVI, FLV, DVD MPEG, RM, MOV, MPG,MP4 etc. With the inbuilt DVD burner you can produce PowerPoint DVD movies with ease. As far as know, there are various tools available which convert PowerPoint presentation into video but most of them are not the all-in-one program.

(1)Convert PPT to Video

PPT to video Converter can convert PowerPoint presentation to 130 popular video formats such as AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG, etc. for sharing on websites, blog, or portable devices such as iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, and Pocket PC.

(2) Batch Conversion

Convert up to 12 PowerPoint presentations to video at a time with PowerPoint to video Converter.

(3) contain two conversion options in the main interface for your actual demand:  PowerPoint to video converter and PowerPoint to DVD converter

Part 2. Using Windows Movie Maker to create a PowerPoint video.

If you use Windows XP or vista, it's free and it comes installed on your computer, if you don't have this program, you can download it from Microsoft.com. If your presentation is created with text and pictures, Windows Movie Maker is the best choice for you.

Step 1. Save your PowerPoint as PNG or JPG format. Just click the office button, save as, other formats, in the save as type drop-box, select PNG or JPG format.

Step 2. Import pictures into Windows Movie Maker.

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

Step 4. Add video effects to the slides if you want to make your video more lively.

Step 5. Save the slide show as movie file. The sounds, animations and transitions original in the PowerPoint will be lost totally.

Maybe you need more information for learning how to use Windows Movie Maker, here is a nice guide for you. http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/moviemaker/a/mov_mak_beg.htm

Part 3.  Create a PowerPoint video online in sildeshare.net

Slideshare.net is a famous presentation sharing website. You can upload your presentation to this site then start the conversion process, after this, download your video to your computer. This is the easiest way to create a PowerPoint video, but you cannot add animations or sound in your PowerPoint and you will find the resulting video to be terrible!

Advantages and disadvantages:

If you want to retain the dynamic elements, definitely, PPT to Video is your choice. Windows Movie Maker and Slideshare.com can be conceded for those people who want to convert the presentation only include text and images. I don't know if there are some other programs which can convert PowerPoint to video with animations and sounds. Internet gives us a convenient platform to share our knowledge worldwide, and video has become more and more pop in the internet. I hope you can use these methods for sharing your presentation easily.