Latest revision as of 14:48, 14 September 2015

1 Overview

Converting your PowerPoint to Flash Video will make it more accessible to web viewers.

The process itself is relatively straight forward, the quality of your content will dictate how well received your material will be.

2 The process

2.1 Step 1. Convert your PowerPoint to video

This is really straight forward from PowerPoint 2010 on

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83

Here is a great training video on preparing your material from Richard Shumacher from the St. Louis Community College in the US. http://users.stlcc.edu/rschumacher/ppt-video.html

Once you have your video file, we can then convert it.

2.2 Step 2. Convert the video to FLV

You'll need a tool to convert the video. Luckily there are free tools for this, specifically a suite available from DVDVideoSoft.

https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-to-Flash-Converter.htm

Get this tool and convert your video.

For more information on DVDVideoSoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVDVideoSoft

2.3 Step 3. Upload your video to bxp

The standard way to add Media to your page. What_is_an_eCourse#Adding_Content_to_a_Page

3 Follow up

If you'd like help in any aspect of this process feel free to get in touch with support@bxpsoftware.com or give us a ring on +353 1 429 4000