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Adding PPT files

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Created on: 08/19/08 10:54 PM Views: 1351 Replies: 2
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 10:54 PM

Is it possible to add a PowerPoint slide presentation to our site? What about when it's saved as a Web page?

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 12:33 AM - Response #1

Right now you'd have to export your Powerpoint presentation to a video format, upload it to YouTube, and then embed the Youtube code for your presentation on your site.

Shortly you'll have a new File Library feature where you can upload the Powepoint presentation itself to your site. Or if you can save it in the Flash format, you can upload it in the Flash format.


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Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 5:46 PM - Response #2

Hello Diane,

There are a bunch of third party tools to convert powerpoint to video. Unfortunately many of them dont work that well and they try to charge you money for features that dont perform as advertised.

One of the few powerpoint to video converters that does work exceptionally well is called Camtasia from Tech Smith. You can try it out for free for 30 days and make sure it works for your purposes.

It is a fully functional demo that does not limit your use or place any watermarks on your output files.

Camtasisa has an easy to use record feature and presets for many of the common video formats for the online services.

To get decent looking video on youtube you can change the resolution of your power point presentation to 640 x 480 before you record your power point presentation.

You tube generally hacks things down to 320 x 240 for most videos. A sample classmate powerpoint presentation that was converted to youtube is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk6q9vBcSh4

Viddler.com and some of the other online video services will allow you to upload larger files at higher resolution. You may want to try them as an option since many powerpoint presentations are hard to read at the standard youtube size.

The download link for that free Camtasia trial is:
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

--Chris
reunion@83phs.com

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