PowerPoint to Video & PowerPoint to DVD

Create DVD Menus for Your Presentations

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:48:25 +0000

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:

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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

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:47:58 +0000

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.

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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.

Tool: Acoolsoft PPT2DVD

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

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:59:59 +0000

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 PowerPointPicture
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.

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How to view PowerPoint on YouTube

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:17:24 +0000

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.

Why upload PowerPoint to YouTube

1. Broadcast yourself on YouTube with your special PowerPoint photo slide show;
2. Promote your product or company with PowerPoint presentation on YouTube all around the world;
3. Make your PowerPoint content reach millions of people online;
4. It is an alternative solution to email a PowerPoint presentation to others;
5. Enable your PowerPoint to be viewed without the need of PowerPoint.

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.
Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter 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

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:26:34 +0000

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