strategy for recording presentations to DVD

[Kyle Yost]

Hello,

I am hopeful someone on this group can provide me with some advice.

I'm trying to create a DVD that contains a number of separate
presentations (6-10) and I would like the user to be able to select
the presentation he would like to see from a DVD menu. Each
presentation is a narrated slideshow, but will run like a movie, ie,
the user will not need to forward through individual slides but the
presentation will just run from start to end.

I'm thinking it will be easiest to use Powerpoint to create each
'movie' presentation with audio and use either DVD X Point or
Camtasia/NeroVisionExpress to convert to DVD format. But, how do I
record multiple of these 'movies' to one DVD with a high-level DVD
menu to provide user control to access them.

I'm amenable to any and all advice, even if Powerpoint is not the
suggested presentation medium

Thank you in advance,
Kyle Yost

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello Kyle,

As you have discovered, PowerPoint does not have the built-in ability to
save presentations as video files or other video formats such as DVD-Video.
There are a couple of free Microsoft products that you can use to capture a
running slide show to a movie format but then you would have to still use
other software to convert them to a format that is acceptable to whatever
DVD authoring software you choose to use.

Microsoft software which includes screen capture functionality:
* Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2003
* Windows Media Encoder 9.0

In the meantime, if the ability save presentations to DVD-Video, directly
from within PowerPoint, is important to you (or anyone else reading this
message), or if there are specific features of PowerPoint slide show that
you would like to see (which might eliminate the need to save presentations
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