Well, this is a new one on me for GAOTD. I downloaded the program and installed it - or I thought I did. It went directly to telling me it was activated without going through the installation process. Skipped it altogether. I even tried downloading it again, but no luck.

Downloaded the GAOD zip, unzipped, ran setup, availability check completed then nothing. Turned off all virus and firewall protection and did a reinstall attempt. Still nothing. Restarted the computer tried again - nothing. Quite a disappointment.

OK since no one else seems to have done a review of how this actually works here's a short one.

The user interface is of a custom design, it uses non-standard GUI components so no context menu in task bar entry or title bar, no maximise or window resize.

It can use various versions of powerpoint to internally parse and render the powerpoint presentation files AND it can use the free microsoft powerpoint viewers too, so one does NOT have to have MS Office installed to use this.

It uses a selection of preset profiles to initially define the output video formats which can be customised to some extent and saved as customised profile presets with a maximum output video resolution of 2048x2048 pixel so no UHD/4K output video in this version. Close but not quite.

The final encoding phase is multi-core aware and can max out multiple cores during encoding.

Output video works fine on the trials I did. It is a keeper if your display resolution is not so great that it renders the GUI as unusably tiny.

Oh and so far the license has lasted since July last year so no concerns about it de-activating itself like some other giveaways have done.

So many questions and no answers, where is the developer? Developers should take responsibility for their products and willing to help prospective customers, otherwise people will just interest.

I have found that when the .gcd wrapper is used and the program won't install, I have to boot my computer into safe mode and then install. This has worked every time for me. The program must be one that I think would be really useful before going through this hassle.

My Malwarebytes Pro blocked an exploit. Now it fails to work. I think I can add the folder to the Exclusions and hopefully take care of it. I'll get back to you later.

For some reason I had to go to the site: http://www.leawo.net/downloads/powerpoint-to-video.html
and down load and install the program. I use the registration and it worked. When using the download it said i was registered but could not find the program. Leawo now appears in my apps list along with the music recorder from GAOD. and LEAWO

This app installed without problem, but there was no registration pop-up on first use. And under the single "menu" pull down on the top right, there is no reference to registration/key entry. The "about" bullet shows that it is active and used by me (user name), but says nothing about licensing whether free trial, or licensed.

How do I insert the registration/key number, or validate the app is licensed?

I don't understand the usefulness of this software. PowerPoint exports to video already and does a good job of it so why is this needed?

Downloaded, installed, and registered without any hitches. One thing that would make the program more usable for me would be if the program window would be adaptive to the resolution being used on the computer screen. At my regular resolution of 1920 by 1080 the program window is super tiny and does not appear to be re-sizable to allow for it to be more likely that I would be working with the program on a regular basis.

installed with ease, 64 bit windows 10

This was previously given away July 22, 2016 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ppt-to-video-2-8-0-1/

Just ran the installer and it is installing the exact same version as last years giveaway, so if you missed the giveaway then and want a good powerpoint to video converter now's your chance.

The install problems mentioned in earlier comments are down to the themidia setup wrapper and the entire wrappers operation being disabled by various 3rd party generally overzealous security products disabling windows features that themidia needs to work rather than a conventional false positive detection. GAOTD did at least once provide instructions in the readme about this and it did reduce the number of complaints/enquireies here in the comments section but they have since removed that section from the readme.txt file and the complaints have returned.

The program fails to install, saying "setup has stopped working", even when setup.exe is run "as administrator'

Link provides only the gotd installer, not the link to download the program file(s). How to download the .exe file? Anyone knows?

Confused ! I have PPT2DVD Pro version 4.6 downloaded from GOTD in 2015 and very satisfied about it. But current version seems to be 2.8. What' s in the numbers? To understand, I went on the Leaweo site and found PPT2Video Pro under the tab Video at 24.95$, and PPT2DVD under the tab DVD at 79.95$. Why such a price difference just for a DVD burning extension available fror free on the web ?