Easy Guide to Recording Your PowerPoint Presentation to a DVD+R

Recording Your PowerPoint Presentation to a DVD+R

You can record your own PowerPoint (PPT) presentation on a DVD+R to play in most home DVD players. This can be accomplished by hooking up your computer to a television monitor and connecting your DVD recorder to your television.

Connections: Hook up your computer to a television via an S-Video connection and audio connection cables. The DVD recorder must also be connected to your TV through video and audio cables. Please refer to the connection instructions in your manuals for computer, television, and DVD recorder.

Recording Process:

- Load a DVD+R disc into your DVD recorder.

- Be sure the quality settings on your DVD recorder are set to the highest possible for the length of the PowerPoint presentation.

- Play your PowerPoint presentation through your TV monitor.

- Press record on your DVD recorder, from the monitor as the source.

- Turn record off at the end of the PowerPoint presentation.

- Complete the recording process as instructed in your DVD recorder manual.

- Your DVD is now ready for playing in most home DVD players.

Great Ideas for Slideshows

Gifts: This is a great idea for making slide shows with photos, with music backgrounds for the presentation. You'll have a keepsake that you can also share with family and friends through copies of your original DVD. You can also insert animations or .gif files to create additional interest.

I've made many slideshows with photos from vacations. I've also done several special celebration slideshows for milestone birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, and family reunions.

Fund-Raising Ideas: Our family reunion slideshow consisted of many vintage photos dating back to the late 1800's of our great-grandparents through the generations to current family photos. I included a family tree to show the lineage of our ancestors. This 1-hour long slideshow was offered as a fund-raiser at our family reunion at a modest cost of $15 per DVD. It was a very hot-selling item, and the family members were very impressed and moved by this priceless keepsake.