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Seeking to expand the reach of your presentations? Whenever you convert a PowerPoint file to video format, you can do several things by using it:
* Post it in your site
* Post it on YouTube
* Burn it to some CD and send it to prospects
* Post it on your blog or Facebook
There are several kinds of video formats. Within this tip, I focus on Adobe's SWF format. It's easy to post on the Web site and many computer systems have the viewer. (If not, it is a free download from Adobe.com. Look for the "Get Flash Player button.)
YouTube may complain if you use an SWF format that embeds a player button and other controls, but for other uses, the controls are great.
So far as I understand, the very best free tool is iSpring Free. I made use of it for that movie you see here.
Whenever you install iSpring Free, you get a new tab in PowerPoint 2007 using the conversion tools.
The fast Publish button converts your presentation to SWF format in a single click.
Obviously, you may want to setup your presentation appropriately first. When it comes to the above movie, I added automatic timings for all the slides to complement the length of the sound files which contain my narration. (I recorded the sound in Audacity.)
The result is just 3 files:
1. fixprompt.js is really a JavaScript file which contains the playing controls
2. index.html contains the code that embeds the SWF file
3. Slide1.swf is the SWF file
If you wish to put the SWF file on its own web page and link to it, you can easily rename the HTML file, upload everything, and you're set. But that's not usually what you want to complete. Instead, you probably want to place the SWF file with an existing page.
My HTML code, after editing, appears like this:
This is what you must do :
1. Open the HTML file in your web authoring software or and text editor.
2. Select the text in the table tag to the end of the script tag, and duplicate it to the Clipboard.
3. Display the HTML code for the web page, and put your cursor in which you want the SWF file to visit.
4. Paste.
Here are some other changes that you might need to make:
1. How big the movie may be too large. To fix that, change the height and width proportionally both in places (the item and embed tags).
2. Because the background of numerous of my slides is white as is the backdrop of my webpages, they blend in one to the other. So, I changed background color of the table. I did that by adding bg within the table tag. This is where the blue-gray background comes from.
3. I needed to change the location of the SWF file and set it in an images folder, so I added images/ before Slide 1.swf both in the object and embed tags.