PPT to DVD

[Guest]

I'm looking to create a DVD of a PPT presentation. I don't need the DVD to have any PPT interactivity - I just need the DVD to replay what you would normally see on the computer screen if you were watching an automated non-interactive PPT presentation. I've done this in the past with video tape (VHS) by simply connecting the analog outputs of my video card to the inputs of the video tape recorder. Though this works, the quality isn't professional caliber - even with a high end video card. There's also a scan line conversion issue which comes into play as well but I doubt I can get that answered here

I would prefer to burn the presentation to a PC based DVD recorder straight from PPT. Utimately I want to be able to take the burned DVD and play it in any standard DVD unit. Is this possible

Thanks

John

 

[TAJ Simmons]

John,

We get asked this question a lot in the powerpoint newsgroup.

Here's one way of achieving the capture, conversion of a powerpoint pres to
a dvd that will play on a home dvd player

http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpoint-to-dvd.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Adam Crowley]

Best quality, in my opinion, comes from recording to a domestic (set top)
DVD recorder, or to a 2nd PC with video capture. I've never been able to
capture a PowerPoint show to a video file with both full frame rate and full
(video) resolution.

I'm looking to create a DVD of a PPT presentation. I don't need the DVD to

have any PPT interactivity - I just need the DVD to replay what you would
normally see on the computer screen if you were watching an automated
non-interactive PPT presentation. I've done this in the past with video tape
(VHS) by simply connecting the analog outputs of my video card to the inputs
of the video tape recorder. Though this works, the quality isn't
professional caliber - even with a high end video card. There's also a scan
line conversion issue which comes into play as well but I doubt I can get
that answered here.

I would prefer to burn the presentation to a PC based DVD recorder

straight from PPT. Utimately I want to be able to take the burned DVD and
play it in any standard DVD unit. Is this possible?

 

[Adam Crowley]

There's also a scan line conversion issue which comes into play as well

but I doubt I can get that answered here.

Go on, give it a try...

 

[Austin Myers]

Adam,

Sounds like you need a big, faster, nitrogen cooled PC. <g>

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello John,

While others are helping you around this limitation in PowerPoint, if the
ability save presentations to DVD-Video (even with unavoidable loss of some
interactivity capabilities), directly from within PowerPoint, is important
to you (or anyone else reading this message), or if there are specific
features of PowerPoint slide show distribution that you would like to see
(which might eliminate the need to save presentations as DVD-Video), don't
forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

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suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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