How to make a video from powerpoint slideshow


Many videos you see online is made from powerpoint slideshow with transitions between the slides, text that move in and out, photos and backgrounds. Then on top of that a “voice over” that explains what you see.

Such a video can be made with a powerpoint slideshow with recording of the screen and a little editing and adding the voice to the final video.

What your will need to make a video:
- Microsoft powerpoint or similar presentation software.
- Screen recorder to record your computer screen
- Video Editing software. Cut and add sound
- Convert your video to FLV format
- Optional: photos, backgrounds, templates, sound

1)
Microsoft powerpoint or similar presentation software. “Keynote” presentation software for Mac users.
Free open source alternative to Microsoft office powerpoint for PC or Mac: OpenOffice.org
The “powerpoint” software in OpenOffice package is called “Impress” which can edit and save .ppt powerpoint documents. Or just use the default document format, basically you dont need .ppt documents since you just record what is shown on your screen and make it a video from that.
Learn Powerpoint PPT

2)
Screen recorder to record your computer screen while the powerpoint presentation is running.
Camtasia Studio is one good paid option.

A Free open source option is CamStudio. It Records screen activity from the Windows desktop and save into an AVI video file.
Download camstudio 2.5 Beta here:Download CamStudio

3)
Editing software. Cut your video and add voice and music.
Avidemux is a free video editor for PC/Mac/linux. Download Avidemux here
Avidemux Instruction

Video input formats: AVI, MPEG, ASF, MPEG-4
output formats: AVI, MP4, .flv

It should be possible to save your video as .FLV Format which is what you want, however I couldn’t make it do it.

Instead I use the video joiner (and video converter) below to convert from AVI to .FLV video format.

4)
Video converter to video Format FLV
Free AVI/MPEG/WMA/MP4/FLV Video Joiner
If you need to convert your videoformat e.g. from AVI to FLV or Mp4 or merge several videos into one, this little video joiner can do the job:
Free AVI/MPEG/WMA/MP4/FLV Video Joiner which can be downloaded from: freeaudiovideosoft.com




Optional resources for your video creation:
Backgrounds, photos, sounds, music, animations and powerpoint templates

Sound Editor (for recording your speech)
Audacity FREE sound editor

Free Powerpoints templates (premade design and backgrounds)
Poweredtemplates.com
Templateswise.com
Freeppttemplates.com

Photos
Fotolia
Digitaljuice
Freedigitalphotos
Flickr.com
123rf.com

 Digital photo editing software
Getpaint Free alternativ to photoshop

Cliparts and Animations
Clipart.com
Animation Factory

Artificial speech.
Ultra Hal Reader Text to speech from Zabaware. Read text out loud, which you can record and use in your video. I use AT&T voice “Mike” ad-on.




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