Make Screensavers, YouTube Videos from PowerPoint

Sometime I've got some questions: how to set Screensavers from Powerpoint(PPT) file and how to create movie from PPT files that can be uploaded to Youtube or Google video. An this tutorials answers two common questions for you.

To Create Picture Screensaver from PowerPoint Slides.

Create an empty folder in "My Pictures" on your hard-drive. Now open the PPT or PPS file in Microsoft PowerPoint and click File -> Save As. Select "Enhanced Windows Metafile" in the file-type drop-down and click "Every Slide"

Your Powerpoint presentation is now available as EMF file in one folder. Right click the deskop -> Properties -> Screensaver and select the "My Picture Slideshow" screensaver. Browse to the folder where you save the PPT and you're done. [Disable "Use Transition Effects" for best results]

How To Upload PowerPoint to YouTube or Google video.

First you must convert PPT files to movies files or flv files. Then you can upload to YouTube or Google video.

There are two option here - either run the PowerPoint as a full-screen slideshow and capture the desktop using some screen recording software OR make a movie from PowerPoint slide images. We'll use the latter approach though you won't see the animations or transitions in the PowerPoint movie.

Start a new project in Windows Movie Maker and import (Ctrl+I) the entire folder of images in the timeline that we created in the Screensaver hack above. Switch to storyboard in WMM, drag all the image to timeline and click Tools->Options->Advanced. Now change the picture duration and transition duration (keep this to a minimum value). Finally save the movie file - your PowerPoint is now a video.