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Lori May View Drop Down
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  Quote Lori May Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: DVD PowerPoint Presentation
    Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 06:33

Ok, so I have gone through and figured out how to record, which program to record with and how to ensure the music is not only embedded, but is recorded as well.  This is all well and good except, through all that, what I have produced is a CD-Rom. 

What I want to produce and not sure if I can (although, I have in the past come across another individual that did) is produce a disc for playing a powerpoint show on any DVD Player (keeping in mind that some family member, don't and won't have computers). 

My aim is to "reproduce" a family show that can be view on a home DVD player.

Any suggestions?

LM
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  Quote Jonathan Stock Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 06:40

Hi Lori May,

welcome to the PowerPoint Forum.

Basically converting a PowerPoint presentation to DVD is fairly straight forward and you can think of it as 3 steps.
  1. Capture
  2. Conversion
  3. Writing the DVD

To capture your presentation you should use a screen capture application such as Camtasia.

In an earlier 123PPT Newsletter, PowerPoint expert Scott Harvey, created an excellent online guide to using Camtasia which you can find here at How to export your PowerPoint presentation to DVD and video?.

Once you have captured your presentation then you will need to convert your footage to make it suitable for DVD home play use. For this purpose I would recommend Nero Vision Express. It's usualy bundled with most computers these days as Nero is one of the leading CD-Rom/ DVD disc burning applications on the market.

Nero Vision Express allows you to open, and convert your Camtasia video capture into a DVD compatible file choosing the Make DVD menu option.

Without getting too technical Lori May, basically we view graphics, browsers, videos, etc.,  through our computer monitors which is a very different resolution (size) to DVD. In addition DVD file format is a standard video format called MPEG-2.

Once you have made your new movie in Nero Vision Express, based upon opening your Camtasia export, you will then find yourself at the Burn to... screen.

Again follow the simple wizard to burn your presentation to DVD.

That's it.

If you don't have Nero Vision Express Lori May, you can download a free 30 day trial of the application from the Nero website.

Jonathan Stock
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  Quote Lori May Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 06:41
Thank you so much for your time and really helpful explanation Jonathan.
 
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  Quote Charles Henry Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 06:45
Good advices there Jonathan, but remember there are some important issues about watching a presentation on TV versus a watching a presentation on a computer Lori May.
 
  • The quality (resolution) of a TV is not as good as a computer monitor.
  • Avoid putting information too close the edge of your slides. Information may be cut off otherwise when viewed on a TV.
  • Avoid very small text. A lot depends on the quality of the TV and how far back the TV will be viewed from. Try if possible to aim for no smaller than 30 point font sizes.
  • Avoid very thin lines. Try to aim for at least 3 point line sizes.
  • Avoid certain colors. Red is notoriously bad on TV.
  • Aim for dark backgrounds (dark blue), and light coloured text (white / yellow).
  • And last, but by no means least, avoid very skinny thin serif fonts. Aim for Calibri, Arial or Verdana (sans-serif), bold and black weight fonts in your presentation.

If you follow these simple steps in creating your presentation and the advices of Jonathan in converting your PowerPoint presentation to DVD then you'll have a great looking presentation that anyone with a home DVD player can watch and enjoy.

Charles Henry,
Creative Director, www.123ppt.com
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