Overview

Wondershare PPT2DVD allows you to convert you PowerPoint presentations to DVD and other video formats with ease.  You can keep everything from the original PowerPoint File and also make professional DVD menus for quick navigation.  It also includes built in DVD burning software and the ability to convert the presentation to several common video formats.

Review

Installation – 8

Installation is quick and easy following the installation wizard.  We were up and running in just a few minutes.

Also during installation you can install install Sound Recorder which will allow you to put voice narrations over the presentation video.

Features – 8

There are a lot of neat features available for creating your PowerPoint DVD’s and Video.  You can add a company logo, add different colors, and change margin sizes of the final video presentation.

You can customize title menu’s and other search menu’s for manual mode for when the user is navigating through the DVD.

Entering in titles for the menu’s is straight forward and you can also add background music.

Customize the colors and look of the presentation.

There are also several more different templates you can download from their site.

From the main menu you can choose to create a standard or high definition DVD.

Or select from several video formats such as WMV, MP4, AVI, MPEG2, MPEG1, MOV, and FLV.  There is also the ability to convert to portable devices like iPod, Zune, Blackberry, iPhone, PocketPC, PSP, and 3G.

Select appropriate video settings for the DVD.

You can set it to check for updates automatically on a schedule or you can also manually check for them as well.

Change the quality of the DVD video through options.

Ease of Use – 8

The user interface is nicely laid out and converting a PPT to video is quite easy.  Here we will take a look at converting a PowerPoint presentation about Vista security to an AVI file.  First select PowerPoint to AVI on the main screen.

Next browse to the location of the presentation to convert.  You can actually select up to 12 different PowerPoint presentations at once.

You can then change video and layout settings to your liking.

In layout settings you can customize margin size, colors, and add a custom logo.

In the next step change the timing between your slides.

Before converting the PowerPoint a reminder message is shown to make sure the conversion goes properly.  If you’re doing multiple conversions you can select to bypass the message.

While the PowerPoint is converted it shows the progress.

When it is finished there are handy links to the output folder, playing it right away, and other links to help create new videos.

Performance – 8

In all of our tests PPT2DVD performed very quickly.  Results will vary depending on your system’s power, the size of the PowerPoint, and the video format it’s converting to.  On our 64bit computer it used up few resources and were able to do other multitasking while the conversion took place.  The included DVD burning software works very well and discs burned were able to be played on other DVD players.

Product Support – 8

They include comprehensive support through online live support, FAQ, User guides, and 24 hour email support.  We have reviewed a few other applications from Wondershare and have noticed they offer friendly and helpful support for all of their products.

Conclusion

To get PowerPoint presentations to colleagues who might not have MS PowerPoint installed or even a computer for that matter, Wondershare PPT2DVD comes in very handy.  It is great for business, education, and personal use.  It includes a free full feature 30 day trial then $99.99 after that for the full version or  $59.99 for the Lite version.  It officially supports XP, Vista and we were also able to run it with no problems on Windows 7 RC 1.

Rating

• Installation: 8
• Ease of Use: 8
• Features: 8
• Performance: 8
• Product Support: 8