pp to dvd

[Yonathan & Dora Bard]

I would like to put a Power Point slide show on a DVD so it can be played on
a regular TV set. A product called DVD X Point claims to be able to do
that. Has anybody any experience with this or any other programs that'll do
that?

Regards, Yon

 

[Sonia]

How complex is your presentation? Do you use animation and transitions? I
found that DVD X Point was limited in that area. See the tutorial
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpoint-to-dvd.htm for another
approach.

 

[nola]

dvd x point doesnot do very well for powerpoint. I
purchase a program camtasia, the product sonia talked
about. I takes quite a while to record but it captures all
things in the presentation. Recording the music is a
different story. You have to use a work around to record
the music. But very good program otherwise. A little
costly but works.
nola

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello,

Even the latest version of PowerPoint for Windows, PowerPoint 2003, does
not have the built in

ability to save presentations as video files or other video formats such as
DVD-Video.

Although there have been some requests, made directly to Microsoft, for the
ability to export

PowerPoint presentations to DVD, it's not always clear, from the suggestion
submissions, which of

the DVD formats are desired; what "problem" does saving as DVD solve for
each customer; and, given

the limitations of DVD-Video (and other movie formats) when compared to the
fidelity of a native

PowerPoint slide show, what slide show capabilities customers are willing
to give up in order to get

the perceived benefits of DVD output.

So, if the ability save presentations to DVD-Video, directly from within
PowerPoint, is important to

you, 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), don't forget
to send your feedback 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 suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any
given product

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.

Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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