Totally Free Methods to Convert PowerPoint to Video with All Original PowerPoint Elements

PowerPoint is one of the most well-known presentation software in the world but all kinds of problems may happen when watching it. People cannot watch PowerPoint presentations without PowerPoint program installed on their computers. Even if they did, they may still fail due to the different PowerPoint versions or operating systems. To make PowerPoint presentations playable universally, saving PowerPoint as video would be the best choice. Here we’d like to talk about a few totally free methods to convert PowerPoint to video with all original PowerPoint elements.

Free method 1: PowerPoint 2010

If you have upgraded to PowerPoint 2010, you should have noticed that there are many new functions added. The 3 main new functions we may use a lot are: save PowerPoint as WMV video, save PowerPoint as PDF and support adding MP4 and FLV video format. The only shortage is that you can only save PPT to WMV format and only 3 vide sizes are offered: 960x720, 640x480, and 320x240.

Free method 2: Windows Movie Maker

We all know that Windows Movie Maker is totally free software to create videos. After we save the PowerPoint slides to image formats like JPEG, we could import the pictures to WMM. When we click “Save as” to get the images, the PowerPoint transitions and animations are deleted. However, we could add in Windows Movie Maker. If you don’t know how to use it, go Microsoft resource page to learn in minutes.

Free method 3: Free PowerPoint to video converter + free video converter

This free Leawo PPT to Video converter support all PowerPoint formats, that is to say all PowerPoint versions from PowerPoint 2003 to 2010 are supported. It could preserve all the original PowerPoint elements like fonts, languages, transitions, animations, music and video clips. Though the output video format is limited, we could use free video converter for help to save the output PowerPoint video as your desired video format.

Free method 4: PowerPoint sharing websites

Most websites don’t support PowerPoint documents. The reason why PowerPoint can be shown on these so called PPT sharing sites is that these sites will automatically convert your PowerPoint to other compatible format, mainly in video format, PDF and images. These PPT sharing sites can be generally divided into two categories:

1. Show PPT as video: such as authorSTREAM.com. The PowerPoint will be converted to video automatically. You can open the URL elsewhere on another computer or on Smartphones and tablets. If you click the “Download” button, you can also download the output PowerPoint video.

2. Show PPT as images: such as Slideshare.net. Like the method 2 above the PowerPoint will be shown as images without animations or transitions. The files you download on these sites are the original PowerPoint documents.

All tools and programs mentioned in this article are totally free so you can repost, digg or twitter this article freely with all content remained.