When you Google, you may find a wealth of solutions to transferring PowerPoint to video. Here I sum up the PowerPoint-video solutions in 3 simple categories.
# 1. Conversion Software like Moyea PPT to Video Converter
2. Screen Recorders like Camtasia Studio & Adobe Captivate
3. Microsoft Related – Windows Movie Maker, Photo Story 3 & Quick Time Movie in Mac PowerPoint
Now we are forwarding to the conversion details of each solution.
1. Conversion Software like Moyea PPT to Video Converter
http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt-to-video/
Many third-party shareware can assist you in converting a PowerPoint presentation to a video. Take Moyea PPT to Video Converter for example. Moyea PPT to Video
Converter is an efficient program that can convert your PowerPoint presentations to videos like AVI, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV, 3GP and 3G2 in the truest manner. The converter can retain all the original components including animations and sounds from PowerPoint to video, making it a comfort to upload the presentation to YouTube, blogs and podcasts and to view it on your iPod, iPhone and Blackberry.
2. Screen Recorders like Camtasia Studio & Adobe Captivate
Screen recording software can also help creating a video from your PowerPoint presentation.
I. Camtasia Studio 6.1
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
A popular program for that job is Camtasia Studio 6.1 from TechSmith. Do the following:
Download and install Camtasia Studio on your local computer.
Open the program, and select Record PowerPoint in the Task List. MS PowerPoint prompts up. Open the PowerPoint presentation to record. Set the recording options from
the PowerPoint Add-in Toolbar. Then click the red Record button to enter the presentation. Click the "Click to begin recording" button. When finish recording, specify
a name and location and save as *.camrec file.
II. Adobe Captivate 4
Another video capturing application is Adobe Captivate 4.
Download and install Adobe Captive 4 on your computer. Open the program, in the main interface, click From MS PowerPoint in the Create Project tab to select a
PowerPoint file to convert.
3. Microsoft Related – Windows Movie Maker, Photo Story 3 and Save As MOV in Mac PowerPoint
Microsoft provides some supplements that can aid in making a PowerPoint video.
Windows Movie Maker is free for Windows XP or Vista users. It lets you create a home movie out of texts and images.
To make a video from PowerPoint, you need to save all the slides in your presentation as like *.jpg or *.png. Go to Office (in PowerPoint 2007) or File (in PowerPoint
97-2003)-> Save As -> Other Formats, in the popup Save As box, select the type to either of the above graphical formats. Then choose to export every slide as the
specified picture format.
A folder containing the exported slides with the same name of the original presentation is generated. Open Windows Movie Maker, and import the separate slides to
collections one by one. After that, drag all the imported slide images and drop to Storyboard. If you wish, right click a slide image to add video effects for it.
Finally, go back to the File menu, and save the slide collection as mosvie file.
