How to Convert/Burn a Chrsitmas PowerPoint Presentation/Slideshow to CD/DVD?

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Many a time, there are people on Yahoo Answers asking this question:how to burn/convert a Christmas PowerPoint presentation toCD/DVD? They want the Christmas PPTpresentation, often containing vibrant elements like animation,transition, Chrsitmas music or movie clips, to keep complete when burning to a CDor DVD as it was.

The answer to the question depends on where the PowerPoint presentation is going to playback.

1. Suppose the terminal remains a computer.

You would not email a Christmas PowerPoint file because there is no Internetconnection on the computer where you are going to deliver it, orbecause you are afraid of data loss during emailing. Instead, you wouldconsider a safer way - save all the data in the PowerPoint file to a CDand move it to another computer where you will deliver it. In thatcase, you can try one of these methods:

a) Take MS PowerPoint "Package for CD" (in Office 2007) or "Pack and Go" (in Office 2003)



The "Package for CD" or "Pack and Go" feature allows you to copyyour presentation, whether including audio or video or hyperlink filesor not, together with a Microsoft Office PPT PowerPoint Viewer to anoptical disk like CD and DVD, a USB flash drive or a network location.The presentation copied to CD or DVD is good for distributing to acomputer that running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later even withoutPowerPoint. However, if you use the Package feature to transfer apresentation to a computer with OS other than that, e.g. an earlierWindows 98 OS, or a different Mac OS, then a compatibility problem mayoccur. To avoid that problem, try to

b) Convert the PowerPoint file to video and connect it to CD

Video is a universal format that accommodates to any computer,whatever an earlier Windows or a Mac. For an extensive access of yourpresentation, you may turn it to CD-video using the professionalconversion program Moyea PPT to Video Converter.

The total conversion is a three-step process: Launch the PowerPointto video program and input the presentation(s) to convert, select theoutput format to "Video-CD Format (*.dat)", and start the conversion.



A minute or two, you can get a CD-ready video retaining all theoriginal PowerPoint elements, completed with animations, sounds andmovie clips. Then connect the video to a CD so that you can take it toany computer with ease.

2. Suppose the end-device of your presentation is a CD player or a DVD player attached to TV.

A CD/DVD player cannot play a PowerPoint file. If you would like toreuse a favorite music file from a Christmas PowerPoint presentation for playbackon a CD player, you need to extract the audio and record to a CD. Ifyou want to share an amazing presentation with family or friends on abig screen TV, you have to convert it to an appreciate format – DVD.Because even if you copy the presentation to a DVD using the mentionedPack and Go feature, the DVD presentation won’t play on a DVD player,for it is only a data DVD that only applies to a computer. To play theChristmas presentation on a DVD player attached to TV, you should turn it to areal video DVD that supportable.

To make such a video DVD, you can rely on a screen recorder like Camtasia Studio. Alternatively, take Moyea PPT to DVD Burner,a dedicated PowerPoint to DVD converter with more competitive price andeffective performance. It is a mix of dual use – aids to burnPowerPoint to DVD and to convert PowerPoint to video (including audioextracting). The PowerPoint to DVD and video converter features a 100% preserve of original animations, transitions,sounds and movie clips, a variety of DVD menus for remote control onscreen, a free insertion of watermarks, sound tracks and voicenarrations, and a built-in burning engine to burn a presentation onto aDVD.

Below is a brief how-to of the PPT to DVD burner.

I. Download and install Moyea PPT to DVD Burner on your computer. After installation, run it and import the PowerPoint file to convert.

II. Go to Options, and do one of the following:

• To extract the audio from your presentation or create a video copy of the presentation for playback on a CD player, select the Convert to Video file option. Go to Burn, click Start to begin extracting the audio from the presentation.

• To burn the presentation to DVD for playback on a DVD playerattached to TV, set the output to Create Standard DVD or Create HighDefinition DVD as required. In the Menu tab, select a proper DVD menu for later screen display. Go to Music, if you would like to add a sound track for the presentation on DVD. Proceed to Logo to add your own logo for the DVD presentation. Jump to Burn, click Start to burn the presentation to DVD.

III. For the generated audio file, record it to a CD with athird-party CD recorder. For the DVD output, you can get the final workon a disc if you have a DVD writer installed on your PC. Otherwise, usea third-party burning program to burn the DVD image files created to adisc.

Now it is easier for you to share and distribute a PowerPoint presentation via CD/DVD.