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By: Kathryn Staton

Kathryn Staton — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:42:51 +0000

Clearly the people who are questioning the need for this software are not in the field of education. I teach a lot using powerpoints. I love the fact that I can convert it and put it on my iPod so the students that were absent or who need to review that topic can just watch the iPod. I love the software. Thanks GOTD!!

By: Fubar

Fubar — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:53:08 +0000

#5 did a pretty good job of describing the options (it actually has a few more). The video size adjustment, apart from the resolution, is for viewing on a TV, to account for overscan. You can optimize for text or image quality. It doesn’t contain any viruses or trojans. It calls PowerPoint, passes parameters to a network-enabled process, and injects processes into PowerPoint (this may be the reason for some of the alerts). I wasn’t able to generate a video file because it always crashed PowerPoint on my system.

chuck, grow up. I don’t see any value in this application, but others do, so I don’t whine about the fact that GOTD offers it. I couldn’t care less that you don’t like screensavers. GOTD has never offered them more than once per week that I’m aware of, and has only offered them on weekends. Some people like them as screensavers. I only use them as standalone animations. Some haven’t been so hot, but there have been a number of nice ones. My only complaint is that the 3D screensavers have all been DX8; I’d like to see DX9 3D screensavers. The “free” screensavers on the Internet are filled with every kind of spyware and adware imaginable. I’d much rather have a nice 3D screensaver than software that’s useless, or too buggy to use. If you have to go to other websites to get their opinion of GOTD, then you really need to get a life. And the last time that you asked the screensaver-haters to give you a thumbs-up, you got a very heavy thumbs-down.

By: Claudio fernandes

Claudio fernandes — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:17:39 +0000

I was looking for this for quite some time. Atlast I can show “on the spot sideshow presentations of my various product brochures. Also is very good to use the same as a teaching aid for school students where heavy equipment is cumbersome to operate or unavailable.

Thanks so much

By: Snappyguy

Snappyguy — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:47:32 +0000

This would come in handy I guess but can you please put on a avi. to mp4. or something like that?

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:49:16 +0000

I have been playing with this software off and on all day. This ppt to ipod is great!! I called several coworkers and had 4 takers. This is terrific software!!!!! We need more ipod software, please?

#61 Go to Epinions.com, Cnet reviews, and a few other websites. You will read that the screensaver offers on here has made GAOTD less popular. The majority has spoken. Screensavers are out of the question. The internet is full of free screensavers.

By: sparks

sparks — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:32:30 +0000

This is brilliant. Seriously. Many folks here don’t think outside the box. You know how hard it is to get someone to watch even a 2 minute sales presentation? When you open your laptop and say, watch this, then their eyes glaze over. Instead, I pull out an ipod (which is friendly to everyone…it’s an ENTERTAINMENT device)! Then boom! They are receptive. I showed a new prospect a quickie presentation this afternoon on my ipod after I used this software, and they bought. So yes, there is a use for this. And I am glad to have found it, especially free. This one’s great. So thanks, GOTD!

By: Foxylady559

Foxylady559 — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:31:37 +0000

Thank you GOATD for offering quality software. Wondershare makes good quality and dependable software. I don’t have an ipod so this particular offering is not for me, however, I appreciate the effort the team is putting forth to offer software that appeals to a large variety of consumers.

By: Robert McMains

Robert McMains — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:23:17 +0000

Same problem with this as /all/ the other ppt converters I’ve looked at lately. I would *have to have M$ Powerpoint to use it*.
I don’t, and won’t.

That said, jeeze, go to http://www.smallvideosoft.com/ and grab the video screen recorder and the video to ipod converter for free.

Only way I can think of for me to get a powerpoint presentation to video is play it with a standalone player (there is one, right??) and record it using the free Freez Screen Video Capture to avi. from there all formats are just a conversion away….

Sorry, it’s like Bufferzone Pro- Windows XP with Service Pack 2 minimum. No reason to bother downloading- that’s why I go to the program’s home page before downloading, so I catch little details like that first rather than after.

I have Win2k Pro SP4 and don’t plan on switching anytime soon unless somebody wants to send me some seriously upgraded hardware gratis.

Disability ain’t enough even at today’s prices to get a system upgrade without scrimping a looong time. And nothing less is worth installing XP on.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:47:29 +0000

To Avast users: Avast will falsely detect a Trojan due to the heuristics used by that AV software. Notice that it calls it Win32:Trojan-gen (Other). In other words, it detects code that it considers suspect in setup.exe but cannot identify the trojan. It is what is known as a ‘false positive’. There is nothing unsafe about this Setup program.

Having made a quick test of the program on a couple of PowerPoint shows at random (one was a .ppt and one was a .pps), I found that they played adequately in Quicktime, though the .pps did not appear to have converted perfectly – there were some frames which flashed out of order and a longish blank screen at the start. It was not, however, a show that I had created, so I don’t know what ‘tricks’ had been used in it. A fairly ordinary marketing presentation worked just fine.

MP4 files play in Quicktime and in the VLC player. See the following article: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_play_mp4_files.cfm

There are also converters available, I believe (if you don’t feel tempted by the Wondershare PPT to Video package, of which I suspect this is a cut down version.

By: Michael Lile

Michael Lile — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:44:15 +0000

Well, lessee. Some people don’t realize that PPT can also make voice-overs, so if this PPT-video converter can keep the audio intact, you have a video.

Who needs this software? Anyone that uses automated video, ie PPT movies (like flash movies). A company that would like to spend $150 on 5 DVD players and one $300 computer, than $1500 of 5 computers.

Y’see, once you convert to almost any video format, there’s software to burn it to DVD, and is usually free or bundled (Nero burns MP4). MP4 video at 640×480 looks excellent on DVD.