Powerpoint into a DVD playable disc

January 21, 2006 10:04 AM

How do I turn a Powerpoint Slide Show into a playable DVD?

My mother-in-law created a PowerPoint Slide show of pictures of me and my wife that played (looped) at our wedding reception off of a laptop HD. I would like to create a DVD in which she can play this slideshow on her DVD player. Is there an easy way of doing this?

I'm working with a XP machine with computer savvy rating of 2 out of 10.

Thanks for the advice

posted by erd0c to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

Brief Description
Use Microsoft Producer 2003 for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides, and images, then preview and publish a rich media presentation virtually anywhere for viewing in a Web browser.

MS PowerPoint Addins (worth a look)

For DVD maybe http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/

And this FAQ sounds useful.
posted by tiamat at 11:03 AM on January 21, 2006

A bit of quick Googling turns up two resources, the first a step-by-step process involving a $300 piece of software that captures video off of your computer's screen (so you just play the Powerpoint presentation, capturing it to video, and then write that video to DVD), and the second a similar guide to using a $30 piece of software for the same end. (The second link shows you how to generate an AVI; and good DVD authoring software, like Nero, will remaster that AVI to the DVD video standards when it burns the disc.)

Seems like a no-brainer to go with the second option.
posted by delfuego at 12:31 PM on January 21, 2006