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Share Your PowerPoint Presentation on YouTube

by ironeus
Posted on 03 May, 2010

Some people must be wondering about how to upload PowerPoint to YouTube, however,even I am wondering and searching the answers of some common questions.

Why I failed to upload PowerPoint to YouTube?
You should know that Microsoft PowerPoint file is not a video file. Actually it is just playable with PowerPoint or PowerPoint player. YouTube.com is designed to host and share videos only. Other types of media including music (MP3s, etc.), pictures (JPEGs, etc.), and flash files that don't contain a video stream can't be processed by their system.

What's the best format to upload for high quality?
The help center of YouTube gives us a suggestion:
• MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format
• 640×480 resolution (* most updated recommendation)
• MP3 audio
• 30 frames per second

Resizing video to these specifications before uploading will help videos look better on YouTube.

Video accepted by YouTube is better less than 10 minutes, smaller than 100MB.

The best result we want is high quality with the lowest size, so that you can upload to YouTube easily, then others can view your PowerPoint on YouTube fluently. In PPT to Video Pro, we use the following settings for publishing video for YouTube:

Video
• MPEG-4 format
• 640x480 resolution
• MP3 encoder
• 30 frames per second
• 512 kbps bite rate

Audio
• 44100HZ sample rate
• 2 Channels stereo
• 96 kbps bit rate
• MPEG4 encoder

Ok, this looks little complicated for all of us who just want to upload PowerPoint to YouTube.

Can some one suggest me a simple way ?

by Shivali Gupta posted on 04 May, 2010
You can even share with authorstream Convert PPT to Video for iPod and YouTube offers free conversion of PowerPoint presentation to MP4 video format.
by Partha Bhattacharya posted on 03 May, 2010
@ironeus,

Appreciate your dilemma. You've listed too many parameters which I guess you've taken from YouTube's guidelines. In practice, you may not perhaps need to bother about all those things.

Start simple, and you'll automatically learn more as you go along. May I point you to 2 of my articles which I hope you may find useful:

1
PowerPoint To Video Is A Lot Easier Than You Think

2
The Smart Easy Road From PowerPoint To YouTube

If you need more help, please let me know.

Best of luck!

Partha Bhattacharya
www.2webvideo.com
by GeniusDwight posted on 03 May, 2010
I recommend you to use a professional PowerPoint to video converter like Leawo PowerPoint to Video Pro or Moyea PPT to Video Converter so that all the powerpoint origianls like animations, transitions, video clips and sounds will be well preserved.
Also, here is a video tutorial on 8 ways to convert a powerpoint to video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka8Whq9zzPo
by Vally Sko posted on 08 June, 2010
To share your PP on youtube you need to convert it to video. I prefer Presentation to Video Converter for that
http://www.geovid.com/presentation_to_video_converter/
by oviamy posted on 09 May, 2010
@ironeus,
Yeah, as you say, YouTube doesn't accept the PowerPoint format directly.
After your article, I will introduce Wondershare PPT2Video to you.
This converter can support 130+ video formats for sharing PowerPoint to YouTube.
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