How to Convert PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) to Video (AVI/MPEG) and CD/DVD

Created a beautiful and interesting PowerPoint presentation in .ppt format, complete with sound and music, for your wedding ceremony or corporate marketing event. But alas, in an unlucky situation, the DVD or VCD player on Hi-Fi amplifier system cannot player PowerPoint slide out of the box, even with Pack and Go feature. Worse if the projection system or display panel won’t connect to your laptop VGA output port. In this case, you may want to convert the Office PowerPoint presentation in .ppt format to a video, recorded on CD or DVD disc or even on VHS tape which almost everyone can playback on any DVD player.
PowerPoint has a “Package for CD” (in Office 2007) or Pack and Go (in Office 2003) option that copy your presentation, supporting files such as audio or video together with a Microsoft Office PPT PowerPoint Viewer to an optical disk, USB flash drive or network location. However, even if PowerPoint burns the packaged presentation to CD or DVD, the disc created is still a data CD or data DVD which can only be played back on a computer (even if PowerPoint is not installed), and not playable in DVD player normally attached to TV.
For an universal playable presentation, it’s your best bet to convert the presentation to video clip instead, and best of all, a Video CD (VCD) or Video DVD. To showcase your presentation online via website or blog, you can convert the PowerPoint .ppt file to Flash based animated content too. You won’t be able to create and burn a Video CD or DVD with CD/DVD burning software such as Nero or DVD authoring programs such as Nero Vision, Pinnacle Studio, Ulead DVD Movie Factory, Apple iDVD, MovieStudio + DVD, MyDVD Studio, Sonic DVDit, Adobe Encore DVD and etc. Instead, you have to rely on various PowerPoint to Video converters, PowerPoint to DVD converters. Most of the converters can convert PowerPoint presentations to multiple formats, however, most of the software is not free, and users will need to purchase or buy a product key or registration number by paying license fee. However, most also available for free download as a shareware or trial usage, which allows you to evaluate which PowerPoint converter best suit your need, especially if you’re using new file format and extension (.pptx) of PowerPoint 2007. Downside is that all video created in demo mode likely to imprint and stamp with watermark.

Moyea PPT to DVD Burner
Moyea PPT to DVD Burner is a professional tool to convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD video files for wider sharing and distribution with enhanced pleasure. Moyea PPT to DVD Burner supports Windows Vista and PowerPoint 2007, and features ability to 100% retain the original animations, transitions and other special effects, generate a DVD menu in the presentation for remote control, customize the presentations with background music and narrations, burn the video files to DVD with the built-in burning engine, and provides synchronization of sound and animation.
Download Moyea PPT to DVD Burner (PPT2DVD_Setup.exe) from Moyea Software.

PresenterSoft PowerVideoMaker Professional
PowerVideoMaker Professional is a perfect solution for converting Powerpoint to video in crystal clear resolution in AVI , MPEG or WMV format. It preserves animations, graphics, transitions, audios and narrations from the original PowerPoint Presentations. PowerVideoMaker also supports “Automatic Timing”, “Rehearse Timing Now” and “Use existing Timings” timing method. With PowerVideoMaker, you can use PowerPoint as a video-production tool. In a few steps, you can distribute your PPT presentations to anyone, whether they even have a computer or not.

Camtasia Studio
Camtasia Studio is essentially a screen recorder and video editor that easily record anything you see on your screen to create compelling training, demo, and presentation videos, and then convert and share the screen capture in all the popular file formats,including MP3, iPod video, Adobe Flash (SWF and FLV), AVI, WMV, QuickTime (MOV), RealMedia (RM), animated GIF and even an executable (EXE) file. To make the PowerPoint conversion easier, a Camtasia Studio PowerPoint add-in has been released for free download for complete PowerPoint recording and publishing, where it will automate the process to record all multimedia elements of your live PowerPoint presentation, including animations and voice narration, and publishes it on a web site or on CD.

ByteScout PPT To Video Scout
PPT To Video Scout converts PowerPoint presentations (PPT) into AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, xDIV, VideoCD, FLV (flash video) video movies with sound. Both NTSC and PAL plus custom resolutions and frame rates are supported. Supported conversion modes include Normal (as viewed by F5 in PowerPoint), Automatic Slide Show and Manual mode. Works in Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista.

ByteScout PPT to SWF Scout
PPT to SWF Scout converts PowerPoint presentations (PPT) into standalone ready-to-view SWF (ShockWave) Flash movie presentations with navigation. It preserves fonts, headers, raster and vector pictures and provides high-quality conversion, features support for customizable navigation buttons for flash movie, support for keyboard (space, backspace etc) in generated flash presentations and has customizable preloader options (text and logo image).

GeoVid Presentations to Video Converter
Presentations to Video Converter lets you easily transform your Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt and *.pps) presentations into any video format supported by your system so that you can instantly create AVI, ASF, WMV, MPEG, VOB, MP4, a flash files in SWF format, animated GIF and burn your presentation to DVD, even without PowerPoint installed on the system. You can put your presentation, for example, to a Web site for streamed viewing or Web casting. Presentation to Video Converter is effective and very easy to use, requiring only few mouse clicks to create a full featured video, flash with sound track. You can also control the presentation while it’s being converted.

AboilSoft PowerPoint to Video
PowerPoint to Video converts PowerPoint presentations into video [AVI] file. PowerPoint to Video can nearly keep all the original animations and special effects in your PowerPoint file on the video file, and can attached the sound from microphone,CD player, background music etc. Certainly, you can burn these video file to VCD/DVD disc that can play on TV, DVD players etc.

AboilSoft PowerPoint to Video DVD
PowerPoint to DVD lets you easily convert PowerPoint presentations (ppt) into video files (AVI) with sound track, and it can produce a DVD disc which can play on any DVD player or PC. PowerPoint to Video DVD can nearly keep all the original animations and special effects in your PowerPoint file on the video file, or can attached the sound from microphone, CD player, background music etc.

PowerPoint DVD Converter
PowerPoint DVD Converter enables you to convert your PowerPoint presentations to MPEG movie, or burn to DVD/MiniDVD disc for permanent data backup or sent to others as gifts. PowerPoint DVD Converters also preserves the texts, graphics, audio tracks, videos and transitions of the original, with a quality loss less export. A variety of parameters for you to set to gain a perfect copy of your original PowerPoint presentations on maximum.

PPTmovie
PPTmovie converts PowerPoint presentations to video in all major formats including AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (for DVD), MP4 (for iPhone or iPod) which gives you plenty of options on how to use your videos, including publishing to YouTube. PPTmovie also allows users to record your narrations or record any music from your speakers. Various slides advance choices are also available.

DVDShow For PowerPoint
DVDShow enables you to convert your PowerPoint presentations to MPEG movie, or burn to DVD/MiniDVD disc for permanent data backup or sent to others as gifts. Since the wide spread use of DVDs, a DVD_based presentation is becoming more and more acceptable and desired by people. It also highly preserves the texts, graphics, audio tracks, videos and transitions of the original, with a quality loss less export. A variety of parameters for you to set to gain a perfect copy of your original PowerPoint presentations on maximum.

PPTonTV - PowerPoint to DVD Builder
PPTonTV converts and burn your PowerPoint to DVD,and Play it on TV. PPTonTV PPT2DVD Builder can also convert PowerPoint to video, such as MPEG, AVI.

ProDVD PowerPoint DVD Maker
ProDVD’s PowerPoint DVD Maker converts your ordinary PowerPoint presentations into exciting DVD movies and saves them on recordable DVDs. Your presentation DVDs are truly portable and will play perfectly on any DVD player or PC. PowerPoint DVD Maker supports PowerPoint 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 versions, preserves all text, graphics, transitional effect and sound. The program also features support for all major DVD burners on all DVD media types such as -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW and RAM. Supports video files such as wmv, avi and mpg.

There are potentially a lot more this kind of PowerPoint PPT to Video or DVD converters available in the market. But also take note that some programs apparently have not been updated for a long time, and thus may not work in Windows Vista and latest version of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.