If you want to enjoy your presentations on a widescreen television, iPod, mobile phone or upload it to video sharing sites like YouTube, you will need to convert the presentation to a video.

To convert a presentation to a video, you can either use a desktop video editing program such as Windows Movie Maker or an online service like authorstream.com.

To convert a PowerPoint presentation using Windows Movie Maker, first you will have to save all slides as images.  To do this, select “Save As” in your presentation and then select  either PNG or JPEG as the image format.  Click “Every Slide” in the dialog box that appears next.

Open Windows Movie Maker, import all the images (slides that were saved as images) using File>Import into Collections or Ctrl+I.  Switch to Storyboard view and drag all the images to the storyboard.  Now you can add transitions and effects to the slides, set the timing for each slide, preview how the video will look like with transitions and save the project.

If you wish to add audio, select Import audio or music under Movie Tasks and choose the file.  The audio file will now be available in the Collections area.  Right click on the audio file and select Add to Storyboard.  Audio will be added and the view will be switched from Storyboard view to the Timeline view.  You can either repeat the same audio throughout the video or add another audio by importing the file to Collections and adding it to the Timeline.

You will also be able to trim the audio if you wish to exclude some portion of the file.

Now save the project as a movie file using File> Save Movie File.

Now the movie is ready to be burnt on a DVD, uploading to YouTube or watching on iPod or mobile phone.

If you don’t wish to use the desktop program option, you can upload the presentation to authorStream.  Before uploading the presentation, you can add an audio file to the presentation.  See Instructions:

Adding audio to PowerPoint 2003 presentations

Adding audio to PowerPoint 2007 presentations

Use Rehearse Timings in PowerPoint 2007 or Time Slides in PowerPoint 2003 in order to set the duration for each slide.

If you wish to add your own voice to the presentation, you can record voice narration in PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.

Once your presentation is ready to be converted, visit authorstream.com and upload the presentation after signing up for an account.  Your presentation will be converted by authorStream to an MP4 video that you can download and upload to YouTube, save on iPod, burn to a DVD etc.  authorStream also provides embed code for your video that can be used on your blog/website.

Convert Presentation to Video using PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint 2010 has the conversion facility built into it.  To convert you presentation, please follow the steps below:

• Open the presentation that you wish to convert to video
• In “File” tab, click “Share” and select “Create a Video” under “File Types”
• Select the display size from the dropdown menu
• Choose desired recorded timings and narration settings in the second dropdown.  If you selected not to use the recorded timings and narration, set the time in seconds to be spent on each slide
• Click “Create Video” button and choose the location where you want to save the video

Your presentation will be converted to a WMV video and saved on the selected folder.

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