Using video clips to show concrete examples promotes active cognitive processing, which is the natural way people learn. So I want to descript a simple question asked in yahoo answers frequently, that is, how to insert video into PowerPoint and how to deliver the PowerPoint presentation contains video clips. This is a common problem that you can play your PowerPoint well in your own computer but the video cannot be played when you sent your presentation to others.

Part 1: How to insert video into PowerPoint?

When inserting video clips into PowerPoint 2007, you have 2 choices. You can insert video clips from you own file or from clip organizer into PowerPoint. PowerPoint automatically has motion clips in the Clip Gallery. Motion clips are like clip art except the images that include animation. This animation can be seen when you run the slide show.

Q: How to insert video into PowerPoint presentation from my own file?

A: At first you must download the video you appreciated from the website, and remember, put the video clip and your PowerPoint presentation in the same folder. The most suitable formats to insert into PowerPoint are WMV. AVI, MPG.  ASF is also fine but it depends on your codec. OK, now, let’s start.

1.       View the appropriate slide in normal view which you want to insert the video clip in.

2.       From the insert tab, click the pull-down list, click movie from file, then insert movie dialog appeared, choose the right video file.

3.       Then the alert box appears asking how you want the movie to start. To play the movie automatically, click automatically. To start your movie by clicking the mouse, click When Clicked.

Q: How to insert video clip into PowerPoint presentation from clip organizer?

A: In the clip organizer, there are many simple and vivid video clips we can enjoy.

1.       From the insert tab, click the movie icon and choose movie from clip organizer, The Clip Art task pane appears with all choices displayed.

2.       Search for clips by keyword in the search text box, click the right video then the video appeared in your slide.

Part 2: Delivering PowerPoint with video embed well

Q: Why the video in PowerPoint can’t be played in other computer but mine?  This is the most important thing you should pay attention to

A: Someone may be confused by this question, the video and audio can be played smoothly on their own computers but when sent to others, the video and audio cannot be work.

Previously, I have mentioned that you should put the video clips and your PowerPoint presentation in the same folder, when send your presentation to others, zip the folder to a package, and then sent the packed file rather than the sole presentation. In fact, video clips are not embedded in PowerPoint, but linked to PowerPoint. If PowerPoint cannot find the video clips in slides, of course, it cannot be played.

Q: How can I send PowerPoint presentation to my friends who don’t have PowerPoint installed computer? Another tip for you to deliver your presentation widely

A: OK, you did everything as I said in order to share your presentation with your friends, but, unfortunately, some of your friends don’t have PowerPoint installed. Can they view your presentation?

Convert your PowerPoint to video.Yes, it is possible. And this is the most popular method that helps you deliver your presentation widely. After converting your PowerPoint presentation to video you can podcast you presentation on YouTube, your website, blog, and even view it on TV.
The tool, Wondershare PPT to Video,   can convert PowerPoint presentations to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, 3GP with high quality. Besides, you can burn the converted video to DVD  with a third-party burning program such as Nero. And you can use Wondershare PPT2DVD  to make a PowerPoint DVD directory.

Are you puzzled when using PowerPoint sometimes? In this article, I will list some small PowerPoint tips. Maybe they are all common, but practical ones. Hope these tips will make you convenient in your work and life.

1. How to Resize Pictures
You can size pictures in PowerPoint by clicking the picture with the mouse and dragging it to a new size. If you don’t want to “stretch” the picture (keeping the horizontal aspect ratio the same) but enlarge it, hold the Crtl key when changing the size. You can also click the corner of the picture and enlarge it and the aspect ratio will remain the same.

2. How to Use Scanned Photos in PowerPoint
In Microsoft PowerPoint, you may want to add your own scanned photos into a slide to spice up your presentation. But very large pictures can slow down you slide show when they start to load. Even if a picture takes only a few seconds to load, it can throw off your entire presentation, as well as your timing. Recommend using smaller sized photos to help your slide show run exactly how it should.

3. How to Use Graphics with Text Efficiently
While working in Microsoft PowerPoint, you may decide to use text over graphics. This can either make or break your presentation, depending on how well you select your font and color. When working with text and a full color, it can be very difficult to pick the right color and font style. However, when working with a picture that only contains a few colors, text on top of it can spice up the slide’s appearance.

4. How to Record a Narration in PowerPoint
You can record a narration into a PowerPoint slide easily. Do this:
a. Go to the Slide you wish to add a narration to.
b. From the Insert menu select Movies and Sounds.
c. Click Record Sounds.
d. When ready, click the Record button (the red circle).
e. When finished recording, click the black Stop button.
f. Click OK.

5. How to Add a Background Sound to a PowerPoint Slide
To add a background sound to a PowerPoint slide, follow this:
a. Open the Insert menu.
b. Select Movies and Sounds.
c. Click Play CD Audio Track.

When a CD is inserted, a dialog box will appear. From here, simply choose the track you want and select the options you want for it. During your presentation, simply double-click on its icon to start the music.

6. When Using AVI files with Presentations
Using an AVI file with a presentation may spice it up, but it can also ruin it. Make sure to keep your AVI file normal size. A movie playing that is viewed too big will not have anywhere near the quality that a smaller viewed movie will.

7. How to Convert Your PowerPoint to DVD
You can use Windows Movie Maker, but you may not be able to keep the animations and sounds in your presentation. Another choice is to use a professional tool to help you do this easily. Here I recommend the Wondershare PPT2DVD. With a high conversion quality, you can do it easily.

More information you can go to http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com

Small PowerPoint tips but useful. Welcome to share more tips here!

Are you a busy PowerPoint user who wants to improve PowerPoint security? Recently, I paid much attention to the security of the PowerPoint presentation: We spend much time creating a PowerPoint presentation. When sharing our presentation with others, we often worry about the security of it, and worry about being modified by others. So we usually want to take some methods to improve the PowerPoint security.

It is awful to see your PowerPoint presentation appears somewhere with some information changed, especially, your name changed! The fact is that most time we have to hand out our PowerPoint presentation for some reasons. We can do something to protect our PowerPoint presentation. Here are some methods to improve your PowerPoint security and their disadvantages:

v The first way to improve the security is to use the functions PowerPoint itself provides.

Ø 1. Password protecting in PowerPoint 2003.

· Open the presentation that you want to set a password for. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Security tab. In this dialog box you can set password for viewing PowerPoint and modifying PowerPoint.

But this function is not really safe when you are using PowerPoint 2003 because when you choose Compare and Combine the presentation, the password protect can be avoid easily.

Ø 2. Password protecting in PowerPoint 2007.

Encrypt Document, File->Prepare->Encrypt Document. You can set a password to protect your PowerPoint presentation. It is similar with in 2003.

File->Prepare->Restrict Permission, give the permission to the person who you trust by their E-mail account.

Add a Digital Signature. You can add a Digital Signature in your presentation to protect it.

Mark as Final. Choose the option of Mark as Final, after that, nobody can modify your presentation including yourself, but as it to me, compared with the methods above, I prefer this one.

v The second way to improve the PowerPoint security is to use some programs to convert your PowerPoint presentation to video format. Besides the benefit of improving the security of your presentation, you can also make it convenient for the person who has not PowerPoint installed. It is convenient for delivery.

Ø 1. Using PPT2DVD to convert your PowerPoint to DVD. You can image how safe your presentation is. The person who receives your presentation can only view your presentation on DVD!

Ø 2.Using PPT to Video to convert your presentation to video format such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV and 3GP. Besides the security problem, have you ever thought that PowerPoint could be uploaded to YouTube? Yes, PPT to video can save your presentation to YouTube, IPod, iPhone, Zune and so on.

Ø 3.Saving the presentation in JEPG format then using Windows Movie Maker. It is easy but we cannot keep the animations, transitions, sounds, video clips and other things in the original PowerPoint retained. This method is similar with the one by converting your PowerPoint presentation to PDF format.

Choose the method you like and improve the security of your PowerPoint presentation, and get the benefit of it.

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The Mother’s Day holiday, in the United States, celebrates motherhood generally and the positive contributions of mothers to society. It falls on the second Sunday of each May. It is the result of a campaign by Anna Marie Jarvis (1864-1948), who, following the death of her mother on May 9, 1905, devoted her life to establishing Mother’s Day as a national, and later an international, holiday.

“Mother carries the child in her womb for nine months and in her heart for the rest of her life”.

And in 2008, Mother’s Day occurs on May 11. Hope all mothers have a wonderful day. There are some mother’s day PowerPoint templates for you to create presentations, give your thanks, love and gifts to your mom.

PowerPoint templates for mother’s day 1:

This is a sample Mother’s Day story template, follow the example and tell the story why mother is special. This template is come from Wendy Russell The screenshot is like below:

Download this template

PowerPoint templates for mother’s day 2:

Give my best wishes to my mom.

From: http://www.indezine.com/powerpoint/templates/316.html

Download this template

PowerPoint templates for mother’s day 3:

More PowerPoint templates for mother’s day.

As an expert of sharing PowerPoint on most popular media, I have been asked by lots of people about how to embed a YouTube video into a PowerPoint slide and how to share a PowerPoint presentation on YouTube. I want to take the chance to write an article to help people who want PowerPoint and YouTube to get married. I will introduce a way of embedding a YouTube video into PowerPoint presentation in the first part of this article. You will learn how to upload a PowerPoint presentation on YouTube in the second part.

Part one: Embedding YouTube video into the PowerPoint presentations

YouTube video is encoded in FLV format, while PowerPoint just accepts Mpeg, AVI, MOV and WMV video files. So we must convert the FLV format to Mpeg, AVI, MOV or WMV formats. There are two ways for you to convert it.

The first way is using the Online FLV Converter http://vixy.net. You can directly paste the YouTube video URL in the blank, choose the format you like and then click start, after the conversion finished, download it to your computer and then you can insert the video in your PowerPoint presentation

This tool is totally free but it is very slow and sometimes it can not finish the conversion because of some error information. Hope you are lucky!

The second way is using some professional tool like YouTube downloader. This tool can help you download the YouTube video and convert it. When you open a YouTube video, it can download the video automatically. You can find it at http://www.dvd-ripper-software.com/youtube-downloader.html. Open YouTube downloader, then main interface shows (see the illustration below). Click the “+” button to paste your YouTube URL in the blank, and then click OK.

After you finishing downloading you can see your video in the left “categories”. Click “play” to view the downloaded video. But the most important thing we must do is converting our FLV video. Now click “Convert” and choose a proper format. AVI and WMV are recommended.

Save the converted file to you computer, then you can embed YouTube video to PowerPoint presentation now!

Another way to show your YouTube video on your PowerPoint presentation is give a link in your presentation but it has a limitation of your network connection. When you play your presentations you must connect to the Internet.

Part two: PowerPoint to YouTube

You may have gorgeous photo albums or business presentations created by PowerPoint that want to be shared online. Now you need PowerPoint to YouTube to convert PowerPoint presentation to video clips ready for YouTube or MySpace. Here I also introduce two ways for you to make a reference.

Using Windows Movie Maker (WMM). It’s free and it comes installed on XP and Vista. In your PowerPoint program save your presentation as JEPG format and then you can make a movie with WMM. You can also insert some transitions and sounds into it to make your movie more dynamic. But the disadvantage is the animations and sound synchronizations originally exist in your presentation will be discarded completely. If your presentation does not contain animations and transitions and sound, WMM is competent in doing this job. But if not, here’s the second way for you.

Using PPT to YouTube. You will find it at
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/powerpoint-to-youtube-overview.html. It is more convenient and easy to create compelling video presentations with PowerPoint to YouTube with this little creature. Here is the guide.

Step 1: Download PPT to YouTube and install it.

Step 2: Click “Import file” button to load PowerPoint files

Step 3: Click “Format” box to set the output formats, you can choose MP4 or WMV format

Step4: Click “Start” button to start converting.

Step5: Upload your video PowerPoint Presentation to YouTube

With these tips I hope you can go freely between the PowerPoint and YouTube. Any other suggestions are welcome.

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PowerPoint to Mpeg

Benefits of converting PowerPoint to MPEG

By converting PowerPoint to MPEG viedeo, we can burn  the MPEG video to VCD/DVD to play PowerPoint presentations on TV

How to convert PowerPoint to MPEG?

There are 4 methods to convert PowerPoint to Mpeg

1. Use Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2002/2003 to convert PowerPoint to Mpeg video–Free

2. Use PPT to Video to convert PowerPoint to MPEG video –$49.95
3. Use PPT2DVD to convert PowerPoint slideshow to Mpeg to burn PowerPoint to DVD directly – $99.95

4. Use Camtasia Studio to record PowerPoint as MPEG video–$299.95

Advantages and disadvantages

Method 1 is free but it will lost the transitions and animations in your original PowerPoint.
Method 2 is cheap and it can retain transitions and animations, but it can’t create DVD menus and retain the inner hyperlinks.
Method 3 has a medium price, it can burn PowerPoint to DVD with DVD Menus and retain the animations, transitions, sound and movie clips in the original PowerPoint file.
Method 4 is fairly expensive, but it has lots of other functions such as recording the screen.

By converting PowerPoint to video, we can burn the video to DVD, put the PowerPoint video on YouTube, Google video. And put the video on our pocket gadgets.

This  PowerPoint to Video converter is an all-in-one PowerPoint to video converter. It can convert PowerPoint presentations to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, 3GP with excellent quality. You can burn the converted video to DVD with third-party burning program.

Download this PowerPoint to Video tool

Main benefits of converting PowerPoint to video

Watch PowerPoint presentation without MS PowerPoint®
Watch PowerPoint presentation with Windows Media Player

Reduce PowerPoint file size by 90% to easily email or upload to web?
Easily email to others with acceptable file size
See Sample: Original file (size: 20M) After conversion (size: 1M)

Create video with voiceovers and share by iTunes, blog or upload to YouTube
Podcast PowerPoint slide show to iTunes or your own blog for sharing
Show your PowerPoint presentations on YouTube, Google Video, etc. ?

Review PowerPoint presentations on iPod/iPhone/Pocket PC
Review your pre-presentation work even when you are on vacation without laptop
Offer the audience a reminder of the main points of the presentation
Fit in your pocket and can be read while waiting for a bus or eating lunch in a park

Watch PowerPoint presentation on TVCreate mp4 video and play on TV via Apple TV

Burn the video from PowerPoint to DVD

Key Features of the PowerPoint to video converter

Retain animations, transitions, sounds and movie clips
Convert PowerPoint to video formats such as MPEG-1,MPEG-2, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, 3GP

Support converting PPT, PPS, PPTX, PPTM to MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, 3GP.
Easy step-by-step guide conversion
Superior batch conversion: up to 9 PowerPoint files can be converted at a time

Samples from of the converted PowerPoint video

• Create MPEG video to be ready to burn the video from PowerPoint to DVD/VCD 
• Sample format: MPEG-2
• Sample size: 3.77MB (compressed)
• Click to see the sample

• Publish your presentations to online streaming video such as WMV, ASF

• Sample format: WMV
• Sample size: 1.05MB
• Click to see the sample

• Publish your presentations to web such as YouTube, MySpace, Google video

• Get your presentations on iPod® Zune® iPhone® Apple TV® Pocket PC

• Sample format: MP4
• Sample size: 2.85MB
• Click to download the sample
• View the sample from YouTube

Tips you should know:

1. WMV video at 29.97fps has the best quality

2. The resulting MP4 video also works great on Smartphone and PDA

MS PowerPoint and YouTube get married
Wondershare PPT to YouTube V1.0.0 released.

PowerPoint slides on YouTube:

Nov. 16th, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT to YouTube 1.0.0，an innovative tool to put your PowerPoint slide show on YouTube.

Do you have some nice PowerPoint slide shows and want to share them with friends on YouTube?
Do you want to promote your products with PowerPoint presentations on YouTube?

But, you know YouTube only accept video formats such as WMV, MP4. To put PowerPoint slide show on YouTube, we shall convert the PowerPoint file to WMV or MP4 video format.
This is actually what can Wondershare PPT to YouTube do for you.

Benefits of putting PowerPoint slide show on YouTube

1. It is more convenient and easy to create compelling video slide show with PowerPoint and Wondershare PPT to YouTube
2. Broadcast yourself on YouTube with your unique PowerPoint photo slide show
3. Promote your product or company with PowerPoint presentation on YouTube worldwide
4. It is an innovative alternative solution to email a PowerPoint presentation to others.

Key Features of Wondershare PPT to YouTube

Convert PowerPoint presentations to WMV, MP4 video
Retain animations, transitions, sound and movie clips
Superior batch conversion: up to 8 PowerPoint files can be converted at a time

Click to learn more details about Wondershare PPT to YouTube.
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/powerpoint-to-youtube-overview.html

Pricing and Availability:
Price: $39.95
Free Trial:
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/powerpoint-to-youtube-download.html

System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007

About Wondershare Software

Wondershare Software is an industry-leading desktop presentation application provider. Since its foundation, it has been specializing in providing powerful yet affordable multimedia presentation tools for home users, business people and educational professionals. Its product line includes flash presentation tools and video presentation tools. These tools offer users on-demand solutions with full controls to distribute presentations online and offline.

Free Thanksgiving Day PowerPoint template download
Download it at the link below
http://down.mbcn.cn/mbppt/pptom070526011.rar
Preview it on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8IZKcQwsYc

This video is converted from a PowerPoint presentation.
If you want to create video from PowerPoint slideshow like this.
You can use the tool Wondershare PPT to Video from http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com

Make presentation with PowerPoint and show it on TV
Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.5 Released

Oct. 30th, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 4.5，an innovative yet affordable solution to bring your PowerPoint presentation out of the computer onto DVDs and show it on TV.

Have this ever happened to you? You need to play a PowerPoint presentation at certain places but there is no PC available but only a DVD player. The presentation may be a product presentation, company presentation, trade mark display or educational presentations. In a word, it should be very important that you find out a solution to play your presentation without computers.

Another case is that you’ve created a compelling PowerPoint presentation with sound tracks and movie clips embedded, but have no choices but attach the huge package in the email and send to others for sharing, or carry your heavy box wherever you go. And what if the receipts or audience do not have a PC even have such access, and if they do not have the right version of PowerPoint viewer to play presentation correctly and if the attached media files are lost during the delivery? Needless to say, the efforts you spent on the presentations return nothing to you but only complaints, pities, and lost opportunities.
Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first and so far the top innovative program that brings the idea to convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD which is designed to give an end to the above troublesome cases.
As one of PPT2DVD users said: “THIS SOFTWARE IS AWESOME, you can burn directly to a Standard CD which or DVD, or create an ISO file, when 1st put in your DVD player you have the options to manually go through the slides or let it do it automatically, this software will be a great plus for business and education, hooking $1500 projectors to a computer will be a thing of the past, just use a $20 DVD player…. “

Key features of Wondershare PPT2DVD.
1. Convert PowerPoint to DVD, MiniDVD, HDTV
2. Keep original PowerPoint animations, transitions, sound tracks, movie clips and even the inner hyperlinks in the DVD movie.
3. Customize DVD menus to create a real DVD that can be controlled using a DVD remote controller.
4. Convert to WMV, AVI, MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2) video.

What’s new in PPT2DVD 4.5
1. Automatically check PowerPoint file for errors to insure the best results
2. Flexible preview step to enable you to customize the video quality before burning
3. Brand-new interface with easier step by step guide
Click to learn more details about Wondershare PPT2DVD.
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.html

Pricing and Availability:
Price: $99.95
Free Trial: