PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

iSpring Pro’s Publish to YouTube: Conversation with Yury Uskov

  Yury Uskov is the founder and CEO of iSpring Solutions Inc., an international software company focused on providing professional e-Learning authoring tools based in PowerPoint. iSpring products are widely recognized as robust, effective, and extremely easy-to-use software with an outstanding price/quality ratio. iSpring is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

In this conversation, Yury discusses the new publish to YouTube feature in iSpring Pro 7.1

Geetesh: iSpring Pro 7.1 now publishes directly to YouTube. How does this capability strengthen iSpring Pro’s position as the leading PowerPoint conversion tool?

Yury: Direct publishing to YouTube right from PowerPoint is a capability that iSpring first pioneered with iSpring SlideAlloy. Now that this option has been included with iSpring Pro, users have an entire arsenal of publishing options available for any level of presentation interactivity on any device.

iSpring helps PowerPoint users easily create professional-quality video presentations in the environment they already know, then convert their slides to video and publish them directly to YouTube in one click. The conversion and upload process is performed in a single step, making it a truly hands-off procedure. iSpring can even publish with the YouTube quality profile 1920×1080 HD, to ensure the best possible viewing experience for your video presentation.

Geetesh: How good is the video conversion as far as the fidelity of the output is concerned? Can you share some thoughts?

Yury: The iSpring conversion engine captures video information directly from PowerPoint. Since the conversion process utilizes a direct capture, rather than a deconstruction/reconstruction process, all your vector graphics, animations and transitions will be perfectly preserved in the output video with the same quality as the original PowerPoint content.

iSpring enables fine-tuning of video resolution and compression settings right within PowerPoint. The iSpring engine utilizes the MP4 container and the H.264 codec for the optimal balance of compatibility, quality, and download/streaming speed. Whether publishing to an .MP4 video or directly to YouTube, all your work will look the same as you created it in PowerPoint. If you have a specific device in mind, you can select the resolution that best suits that device.

With this new upgrade, iSpring Pro is the easiest and most powerful PowerPoint-based tool for creating video presentations and rich-media mashups. That’s why thousands of customers worldwide choose iSpring, thanks to the unique combination of reliability, quality, and all these new features.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, Yury Uskov

Learn PowerPoint 2003 for Windows: Edit Points for Shapes

When you use any of the shapes available in PowerPoint, you are not limited to what their default appearance looks like. You may want to change a rectangle to a rhombus, or even edit a curved or freeform line differently. The good news is that you can do this by using the Edit Points option — this almost makes PowerPoint a drawing program that provides you the option to play with vertexes (points), handles, etc. — very similar to what you would do in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW.

Learn how to change the appearance of a shape in PowerPoint 2003 using the Edit Points option.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2003, Shapes, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint for iPad: AutoSave

Desktop versions of PowerPoint let you choose where you want to save your files. They also prompt you to save your files if you close PowerPoint without saving your changes. Well, there is no such Save option within PowerPoint for iPad. Why? That’s because most of the time, PowerPoint on the iPad will continuously auto-save your file as you make changes. It will also push these updated, saved versions to your cloud location. So essentially you open a file, make changes, and then open a second file. You may not be aware, but the first file is saved on its own when you open the second file! Would you like a more conventional approach where you are prompted to save your file? You can do that by turning off the AutoSave option that is enabled by default.

Explore how AutoSave works in PowerPoint for iPad.

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Tagged as: iPad, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Keep the Audience Attentive

By Claudyne Wilder

Imagine that you are listening to a presenter droning on and on, using the same tone of voice and the same pace. Before long you start thinking about the vacation you want to take and the plans you would like to make for the weekend. Then, all of a sudden, you realize that you are no longer really listening. But wait, the presenter just said something you might need to know. It’s too late. You have missed it.

Image: Pixabay

People constantly ask me, How can I keep my audience engaged? I see that I am losing them.

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Tagged as: Claudyne Wilder, Guest Post, Opinion, Presentation Skills

Clichés: Light Bulb Pictures in PowerPoint

If someone wants a visual to express a bright idea, chances are they will use a picture of a light bulb! And probably there are thousands of people who decide to use that picture of a light bulb for the same reason – and that’s made it a visual cliché! Can you imagine that a search for the term “bright idea” on Google Images got us almost nothing but light bulbs? OK – now one has to wonder — does a bright idea concept even visualize as something other than a light bulb? On the other hand, does a light bulb represent anything other than a bright idea?

Explore alternatives for visual clichés pertaining to the light bulb.

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Tagged as: Clichés, Clip Media, Design, Graphics, Opinion, Pictures, Presentation Skills, Visuals