PowerPoint Export to .MP4

PowerPoint Export to .MP4

This procedure – 1 minute (+conversion time depending on size and complexity of presentation).
Difficulty - 

Pre-requisites:

  1. Consider reducing the pixel rate of the images\photos on all of the slides to keep the presentation as small as possible.
  2. Transitions and Animations are great and make the presentation look slick but too many will bloat the overall size of the presentation and slow it down.

Start the conversion from PowerPoint presentation to .MP4 video.

Open your selected PowerPoint presentation in App (Desktop) mode.

Check, edit and amend it (best to get someone to proofread it for you) until you are happy that is fit to convert. Once converted to .MP4 it is fixed that way. If you find an error later, you can edit the presentation and ‘Export’ it from PowerPoint as another (version 2) .MP4 Video.

Open the PowerPoint presentation that you intend to convert to .MP4 video (Fig 1. example used for this guide, note the size for this presentation is 23 slides (no transitions or Animations) is just over 2MB).

 Fig 1

Go to ‘File’ (Fig 2.)


 Fig 2

Fig 3. 1 ’Export’ Fig 3. 2 ‘Create a Video’.


 Fig 3

Fig 3. 3 the introduction informs you what is included in the finished video.

Fig 3. 4 select the quality of video from the drop-down arrow, I have selected ‘Full HD’ (be mindful, the higher the quality the larger the .MP4 file and the lower values produce a smaller window but less quality .MP4).

 

Fig 3. 5 select what to include from the presentation, you can also ‘Preview timings and Narrations’ which will be useful if they are included in your presentation.



Fig 3. 6 default seconds spent on each slide is 5 seconds, I have chosen 1 second exposure time for each slide to speed things up.



Fig 3. 7 once you are happy with the selections made, click on the ‘Create Video’ button.



Fig 4. You will be presented with the ‘Save As’ window, select file location, check the title and you will see that it defaults to ‘Save as Type’ ‘MPEG-4 Video’. Click on ‘Save’.


 Fig 4

Please allow time for conversion to take place. Once completed you should see something similar to the image in Fig 5.


 Fig 5


 Fig 6

Finished



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