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How to convert PowerPoint to Flash with Adobe Flash CS4

bonnywang — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:43:39 +0000

“Convert PowerPoint to Flash” has been the hot topic
on Internet. Put this phrase into Google or Bing, you can
easily get a huge number of web links there. Comparing
with PowerPoint, Flash has more advantages for circulating
presentation online or offline. Flash can be played
directly on every computer and Internet, while PowerPoint
has many limitations; Flash can only be played and hardly
to be edited by others; the size of the converted Flash
presentation can be reduced to almost 80%.

So we know "Convert PowerPoint to Flash" is
a trend, but how to do that? Should you we do it with
PowerPoint? So far Microsoft hasn’t added this function in
it. How about doing it with Adobe Flash? If you have the
time and if you are familiar with Adobe Flash – then it
can be one of your choices! Today let’s see how
to convert PowerPoint to Flash with Adobe Flash
CS4.

First, save the PowerPoint presentation as WMF
files, it applies to PowerPoint 2007.

1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint, click the
Office button-> Save As-> Other Formats, then Save
As dialog box appears, choose Windows Metafile (*.WMF) in
the Save as type drop-down list, and click Save.

Notes: WMF is a vector format, and Flash accepts all
vector formats. These WMF files can be resized without
losing their resolution.

2. A message window appears asking if you want to
export every slide or just the current slide, click the
Every Slide button. Then another massage window states the
folder where the WMF slides have been saved.

Secondly, import these WMF slides to Adobe
Flash CS4.

1. Open Adobe Flash CS4, create a new Flash document.
Please select Action Script 2.0.

2. Now choose File-> Import-> Import to
Stage.

3. Then the Import dialog box appears; select the
folder where the WMF files were saved, and click the
first file. Click Open.

4. There will be a message asking if you want to
import the entire sequence, click Yes.

5. Then the files are imported to Adobe Flash CS4, go
to File-> save-> save as the Flash (.FLA) file.

6. Go to Modify -> Ungroup.

Notes: The ungroup option converts all PowerPoint
slide objects as individual components in Flash that can
be animated using native Flash options.

Thirdly, export the Flash file as an SWF file
from Adobe Flash CS4.

Notes: Before exporting the Flash FLA file to a SWF
file, make sure that the WMF file dimension and the Flash
movies dimensions are the same.

1. Click on any of the imported images, then click
Properties panel, you can see the dimension of this
image.

2. Click the Modify -> Document, then Document
Properties dialog box appears; change the dimensions to
match those of the imported WMF files, and at the same
time do remember change the Frame rate to .25 fps. Then
click OK.

3. From the File menu, choose Export-> Export
Movie.

4. Choose the output folder, and then click OK to
export.

Then you can get the SWF files, the PowerPoint
presentation is converted to Flash.

Pay Attention:

In this way you can only convert the whole
presentation to the static images or bitmaps, all
settings of timing, transition and animation cannot be
saved. If the presentation contain some multi-media
elements, such as music or video, it is obvious that all
of them will become just static images or disappeared.

If you think this tutorial is so complicate and
verbose that you don’t spend time on it, and also want to
prevent dynamic design and multi-media elements in your
presentation from being converted to static/bitmap
pictures, you can try some professional converting
softwares, such as

Use PowerPoint to Spice up Your New Product Launch in Summer

bonnywang — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:28:18 +0000

Summer is here and it’s hot! Some trades are in their shopping season, such as home appliances (air-condition, fanner, refrigerator and so on), clothes, sandals, foods and drinks. New products are on sale, coming with large-scale promotion and good price. It is well-known that an absorbing presentation is important for showing your new product optimally and giving a deep first impression to customers. Under such an economic circumstance, most business people focus on how to make appealing presentations in most cost-effective way. Using PowerPoint to make new product presentation is a wise choice.

First of all, we should figure out what benefits PowerPoint can bring to us.

1. As a part of the Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint has become the most widely used presentation program. For new product presentation, we can easily present the features of product by texts, graphics, animations, and other multi-media elements in the form of a slide show.

2. With the development of information technology, PowerPoint presentation has become a popular format for presenting products, and also is a special effective promotion for new product launch.

3. There is little restriction for spreading your promotions of product presentation. You can show your product presentation in shopping festival or trade fair with computer and projector, on Internet and so on.

4. Compared to the traditional ways of making advertising for your new products, making product presentation by yourself can really help you save a lot.

Secondly we should pay attention to the features of the successful new product presentation. There are many tutorials and tips on how to make an effective sales presentation or product presentation in books and on the Internet, business people should follow the guidance according to their needs.

There are main points of the features of effective presentation for new product launch.

Tip1. Make the presentation simple and outstanding.

Choose only the top points about your topic and make them consistently throughout the presentation. Do not use fancy fonts and keep simple and comfortable style for audience. Choose the right template and pictures that are appropriate for the content and your products.

Tip2. Be animated.

Add animation, audio or video to the product presentation. PowerPoint 2007 allows you to spice up your presentation with these multi-media elements. But remember, do not use too many of them!

Tip3. Create a connection between your product and the prospect.

Prepare some samples of the products and give them to your audience when you make speech with product presentation. Let your prospects watch and try the new features of products by themselves-instead of you telling them monotonously.

Here I only list three main points about making product presentation, they are more than that on Internet, and you’d better view them yourself.

A well-designed product presentation is just the first step of making advertisement for the product launch. Presenting it in various ways to spread the promotion is the final purposes. What business people want is to take full use of your product presentation in the most cost-effective way to attract more potential users, let them buy the new product, and finally enlarge the sales volume.

If you are skilled in PowerPoint, you know it’s often not very convenient to show your PowerPoint Presentations.

1. We all know that PowerPoint presentation can only be played on computer with a right version of MS PowerPoint installed; if the operating system in your customers’ computer is different from yours, for example yours is Windows while the customers’are Mac or Linux, the presentation cannot be played.

2. You cannot show your PowerPoint presentation directly on Internet, PowerPoint cannot be embedded in web site. If you upload the product presentation on the company’s official web site, there just a link and icon of PowerPoint, the customers have to download and save this big-size presentation on their computers.

3. PowerPoint cannot be protected well during the promotion. Everyone can edit the presentation easily, including the original maker with an incautious mouse hitting .The inserted elements such music, introduction video of the new product or animations, cannot be saved completely when sending the presentation to the prospects.

Therefore, I will suggest a most effective way to help you with presenting new product presentation.

Converting PowerPoint presentation to Flash, then you can view the converted Flash presentation without any trouble, show your new product presentation online and offline, and let people see your promotion on their computers.

Why should we do this? Because Flash can give us these benefits:

1. Making the presentation easy for your customers to view.

That’s because over 98% of computers already have the Flash player installed. There is a version of the Flash player for virtually every operating system and many other devices such as PDAs and cell phones. There is also a version of the Flash player for virtually every Internet browser. Your audience won’t have to install any software to view your presentation.

2. The best way to show your presentation on the Internet.

Flash video and animation is widely used on Internet. Many web sites show Flash presentation for advertising their company and products. Because the small size and high definition, many video Webs like supporting Flash videos. Flash output streams on the Internet so viewers can start to watch your presentations immediately without waiting for a download. You can upload Flash presentation to the company web site, official blog and professional B2B web site.

3. Making your presentations more secure.

Flash can only be played and cannot be edited by others (including your competitors) which make your files more secure. Flash can maintain all editing elements and inserting files of the presentation, you can show the complete well-designed product presentation to the prospects via E-mail, let them get the information of the new product and your promotion ideas as soon as possible.

How to convert PowerPoint Presentation to Flash? PowerPoint converter can help you. I would like to recommend Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional. This tool makes it easy for anyone to create professional Flash presentations with a few clicks.

Click here to see a detailed tutorial of converting PowerPoint to Flash.

With this tool, you can make a Flash presentation in a few clicks, keeping the exact timings, transitions, sound and movies embedded, all in sync with the presentation; you add multi-media elements to your presentation, maintain all original editing and inserting elements, and show your presentation without any trouble. These features liven up your presentation and guide your clients more effectively.

Anyway, making a great presentation for your new product launch can let you make full preparation for new product launch; taking full use of the cost-effective tools to expose the new product launch can spicing up the promotion.

The Easy Way to Show Business Presentation Unrestrictedly

bonnywang — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:35:59 +0000

Caught in the following troubles of showing your business presentation?

When you want to show a well-designed business PowerPoint presentation for your clients, does it mostly happen that your business presentation cannot be shown in their computers just because of the followings?

1. They don?t install PowerPoint on their computers;

2. You use PowerPoint 2007 and they use PowerPoint 2003 or they use PowerPoint 2003 and you use PowerPoint 2007;

3. You are working with Window and they are working with Mac;

Even if with the same PowerPoint, things could go out of control.

When you create an animated presentation of product introduction, you add narrations, music clips, and video and send it to your clients, dose it mostly happen that your product presentation cannot be shown correctly.

You are asked by them “Why I cannot play the video?” again and again! You should know that PowerPoint only links to these kind of media and doesn’t include them into the presentation file.

You really need to show the PowerPoint on another computer exactly in the way it is designed, but how can we do that easily? According to the problems we meet, the answer may be different with what you have done in the past, but the results we want are the same: We want to solve these problems through shortcut.

The easiest way to show it freely is: converting your PowerPoint presentation to a Flash presentation. Why should we do this? Because Flash gives us benefits more than PowerPoint does.

1. Making the presentation easy for your customers to view.

Flash presentations can easily viewed by anyone. That’s because over 98% of computers already have the Flash player installed. There is a version of the Flash player for virtually every operating system many other devices such as PDAs and cell phones. There is also a version of the Flash player for virtually every Internet browser including Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Safari, and Opera. Your audience won’t have to install any software to view your presentation.

2.The best way to show your presentation on the Internet.

3.Making your presentations more secure.

Flash can only be played and cannot be edited by others (including your competitors) which make your files more secure. Flash can maintain all editing and inserting files of the presentation, you can show the complete well-designed product presentation to the prospects via E-mail.

With flash, all problems can be solved by the same answer: we can show business presentation unrestrictedly!

A wonderful converting program that you can use is Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional. It enables you to add multi-media elements to your presentation, maintain all original editing and inserting elements, and show your presentation without any trouble. These features liven up your presentation and guide your clients more effectively.

Here is a brief guide of using this software:

1. Download and install the .exe file of the software. It is an add-in for PowerPoint.

2. Open PowerPoint file(s) that you want to convert to flash presentation.

3. Click “publish” when everything is set OK.

Click here to see a detailed tutorial of converting PowerPoint to flash.

Then, in a minute or two, you will get a safer and smaller flash presentation; next, it is easy to upload the business presentation to the popular web site like blogs and podcasts; you can send it as E-mail to your clients and show it on every computer with browser. Converting to Flash, your business presentation can enlarge its promotion in an easy way.

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