Help needed with powerpoint upload to youtube

November 9, 2009 10:23 AM

Question on changing a powerpoint to a movie and uploading it to Youtube.

I have created a powerpoint presentation and saved it in the .mov format and tried to upload it to youtube- no go. Imported it into quicktime pro and saved it in avi format, uploaded it to youtube, but youtube didn't keep the timing of slides so all slides went through at 1 slide per second instead of the 1st at 5 seconds, the 2nd at 10, the 3rd at 15 seconds, etc.

I have a mac and don't, currently, have access to quicktime pro, just the regular quicktime.

Any thoughts?

posted by TheBones to technology (7 comments total)

Youtube isn't going to adjust the speed of your uploaded file. Your problem is probably with the export settings themselves creating a MOV with slides that move too fast.
posted by odinsdream at 10:25 AM on November 9

Why not try slide show?
posted by k8t at 10:28 AM on November 9

If I play the mov/avi file before importing it to youtube, the speed is correct.
posted by TheBones at 10:30 AM on November 9

[SlideShare|http://www.slideshare.net/] is the Youtube of presentations. Does that help?
posted by oxit at 10:44 AM on November 9

I haven't tried slideshare yet, but on first pass, it looks perfect. I will let you know if it works for me.
posted by TheBones at 10:55 AM on November 9

You could use a screen recorder like camstudio (free) to capture the presentation at the speed you want as well as recording narration over the top of it, if you still want to go down the YouTube route.

Sorry for lack of links: on my phone (we need an acronym for that surely?)
posted by man down under at 11:49 AM on November 9

Slideshare worked, thank you!
posted by TheBones at 7:33 PM on November 9