Create a video from photos in PowerPoint

Do you have some business photos that you would like to highlight in a presentation or post on your company’s website as a video? Or perhaps you just want to show some friends your personal photos. Either way, you can use PowerPoint’s Photo Album feature.  This feature exists in 2003, 2007 and 2010. In [...]

5 great tools for presenters

Jon Thomas, in his blog, Presentation Advisors, has written a post, “My Five Favorite Free Presentation Design Tools,” and I thought I’d share them with you.

Compfight is a tool to search for images on Flikr. letting you easily find images that have Creative Commons or Commercial licenses. DaFont is a site for free [...]

Post your PowerPoint presentation as a video to YouTube

I get lots of requests for information on how to post a presentation as a video to YouTube.

Here are some options:

Use PowerPoint 2010. It outputs to WMV format. Choose File> Save and Send> Create a Video. Then choose from a couple of options, as you see here. You can use existing timings [...]

A Quick Lesson in Effective Presentations

I just posted a video on YouTube called “A Quick Lesson in Effective Presentations.” In 2 minutes and 12 seconds, you’ll learn how you can revolutionize your slide design—and as a result, your presentations.

I’ve been teaching this method, in more detail, of course, for some time and have been so pleased to see [...]

Recording available for the training webinar: Animation and Video in PowerPoint—Advanced Techniques

If you missed it, we had a great webinar last week on Animation and Video in PowerPoint—Advanced Techniques. It was jam packed with 10 techniques and attendees also got a 14-page handout with detailed instructions and the presentation itself, containing all the techniques!

You can now purchase the recording for $24.95, or buy all [...]

Put a YouTube video in PowerPoint

You can embed a YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation. For example, your company may have videos on YouTube that you would like to show. If you’re sure that you’ll have a live Internet connection when you present, you can use this method.

Display the YouTube movie at YouTube.com. From the URL text box, [...]

Convert PowerPoint to video (SWF – Flash movie format)

Looking to expand the reach of your presentations? When you convert a PowerPoint file to video format, you can do a lot of things with it:

Post it on your web site Post it on YouTube Burn it to a CD and send it to potential clients Post it on your blog or Facebook [...]

Insert video in PowerPoint

How do you put video files into PowerPoint? Can you show video in a PowerPoint presentation? The answer is yes! In fact, it’s very easy.

Video files come in several formats. The formats that work well in PowerPoint are:

AVI WMV MPG (or MPEG)

Before you start, you must put the video file in [...]

Create a video effect

You think of most presentations as being made up of slides, and most presentations look like that. But you can create a presentation that looks like it’s all one slide. This technique is excellent for sales presentations.You can do this in 2 ways:

By using transitions between the slides and adding automatic timing. Narration [...]

New video lesson on YouTube!

Are you still creating PowerPoint slides with lots of bullets and text? This 4-min. video will revolutionize how you create presentations. You’ll see a makeover, step-by-step, that gets rid of a distracting background and turns a boring, bulleted slide into a clear, image-rich presentation.

Ellen Finkelstein can train you or the presenters in [...]