Main Approaches of PowerPoint to Video Solution

Have you ever met any problems of sharing your stunning PowerPoint with others? Sometimes, you may want to send your presentations to friends by email, but it fails due to the large file size. Sometimes, you want to share a PowerPoint slideshow with families, but your relatives don’t have a computer or even don’t have PowerPoint installed on their computers. Then, how to deal with these embarrassing situations?

In fact, by the solution of converting PowerPoint to video, your presentations can be reached by more people only if he has a computer or he can surf the Internet. Here are some main benefits of PowerPoint to video solution: video files can be played on almost all computers with media players; video files can be uploaded online easily such as your own blog, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook; video files can be viewed on portable devices such as iPod, iPhone, and Pocket PC.

So, how to convert PowerPoint to video? Here I’d like to introduce two approaches of PowerPoint to video solution.

- Convert PowerPoint to video with conversion software such as Wondershare PPT2Video Pro

- Use screen capture software to record a video for your PowerPoint

Solution 1: Convert PowerPoint to video with conversion software Wondershare PPT2Video Pro

When converting PowerPoint to video, we will surely want to get a high output quality, and keep all the animations, transitions, sounds and video clips perform exactly the same as in the original PowerPoint. So, when choosing PowerPoint to video converters, this is a key point we should take into consideration. Wondershare PPT2Video Pro is just such a tool that helps us convert PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats with high output video quality.

The main output video formats of this PowerPoint to video converter include AVI, WMV, MPEG, MOV, MP4, and FLV, which are supported by many portable devices such as iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, Zune, and Blackberry. Perhaps you want to ask: will the operation of this tool be difficult? Don’t worry. Easy-to-use is one of the most obvious features of it. Only in three clicks, your PowerPoint presentations will be reproduced as a video.

Solution 2: Use screen capture software to record a video for your PowerPoint

Screen capture software usually allows us to record what is happening on the computer screen. Screen recorders like Camtasia Studio and Captivate are ideal tools to do this. Here we take Camtasia Studio as an example to explain how to do this.

First, download and install the program on your computer. Second, select Record PowerPoint from the Task List. And then, we can open a PowerPoint presentation to record. Click the Record button, a dialog will pop up in the lower right corner of the screen which hints us to begin the recording process. To stop the recording, press Esc. Finally, click Save to save the video in WMV or AVI format.

Of course, besides the two solutions mentioned above, there are more PowerPoint to video solutions available. You can choose the one that works the best for you and enjoy the benefits of PowerPoint to video solution.

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