Transferring a Power Point Presentation to DVD

[MarknPrescott]

I have made a presentation that includes music and
narration for a school project. The school only has a
regular DVD player, is it possible to burn the PowerPoint
presentation to a DVD that would play in the school's DVD
player? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Mark

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Mark,

It would be nice if powerpoint could save to a DVD...but it cannot.

This is one method for putting powerpoint presentations on a DVD to play on
a home dvd player
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpoint-to-dvd.htm

Pay particularly attention to the notes on the sounds / audio recording


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the built-in ability to save presentations as
video files or other video formats such as DVD-Video.

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 as DVD-Video),
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[nola]

I had purchased the program camtasia and there always
appeared to be something wrong after recorded. I have now
purchase panasonic video recorder and it burns powerpoint
to dvd that way that the presentation was created, only
down fall is that it cost me 800.00, but well worth it.
nola

 

[DoKo]

nola,
Does sound a bit spendy, but interesting. I did a Google search on
"Panasonic Video Recorder" and got hundreds of links. Do you have a more
specific name or model number of the Panasonic Video Recorder you purchased?
DoKo

 

[Adam Crowley]

I'm with Nola on this.
I guess we all have different ideas of what 'quality' and 'fidelity' are
and, in my opinion, screen capture utilities achieve neither, certainly as a
basis for a DVD. For me the holy grail is to achieve both resolution and
frame rate.
With this in mind I stand by the comments I made the first time I wrote an
answer to this question, pasted below. More, better, cheaper authoring
software has appeared since then but the point remains the same:

--snip--

First of all I'm assuming your show is self running, i.e. contains slide
timings and is not cued by the user (the answer is more complicated if
cueing is involved).

The easiest way to get a good result, if you have the equipment, is to use a
TV-out graphics card to output direct to a DVD recorder.

The next easiest way, if you have access to a Mac, would be to save your
PowerPoint file as a Quicktime movie, convert this to a DVD compliant MPEG2
file and then author the DVD (Ulead have some cost effective, if limited,
DVD solutions).

Then there are several products that capture screen motion to a movie file
(camtasia and hypercam to name two). Beware, you'll almost certainly find
that with these products you can produce either high resolution but low
frame rate movies or low resolution movies at full frame rate. Both of
these outcomes will give poor results that do not take full advantage of the
quality DVD can offer.

All of these options assume that you have transitions and animations that
you want to preserve. If not then the simplest and quickest solution of all
is to use Ulead's DVD Pictureshow, which allows you to string together a
pile of images into a self-running DVD slideshow. Just export your
presentation as images and play with the DVD Slideshow settings.

A few guidelines to be aware of when creating graphics that will be shown on
a TV/video monitor:
1) TV interlacing makes thin lines, particularly horizontal lines, shimmer
like crazy. Thicken up all your lines.
2) Keep charts and detailed diagrams simple - you'll have trouble reading
complex detail at TV resolution.
3) Avoid very saturated colours, especially bright red.
4) Understand that on a TV monitor you don't see the whole picture - work to
a 'safe area' (i.e. leave at least 5% of the width and height at the edge of
your slides).

It will help you see what works and what doesn't if you can connect a
TV-output to your TV as you work.

Good luck (and I have no connection with Ulead, just that they are making
the effort with cost effective DVD solutions).

--snip--

 

[NOLA]

Panasonic dvd video recorder dmr-e50 800.00 canadian so
cheaper if us funds. My presentations only have music,
animations and are timed transitions nothing the has to be
interative.
nola

 

[nola]

I had also purchased the product dvd x point but music and
transitions where not there so out of three things
purchased, with numerous hours trying to record and burn
the dvd recorder appears to be the best thing out there
for the presentation that doesn't need to be interactive.
nola

 

[DoKo]

Thank you for the information. There is no doubt that copying PPT to DVD is
going to continue to be a hot topic now and in the future. The information
you are all providing is very important in understanding what can and can't
be done or "shouldn't be done". Needless to say, customer expectations are
very important. It isn't really just about copying to DVD, it is about
copying to DVD and ending up with a quality product and it appears that is
where the real challenge lies.