Video Editing with PowerPoint

 

Can PowerPoint be used as a video editor? Oh, yes...

Take a look at this great promo video by my friends at SOAP Presentations. Believe it or not, it was created 100% in PowerPoint...

Based in Brazil (but servicing clients world-wide), SOAP is one of the premiere presentation design firms. They have a large staff of writers, designers, producers—even a composer! They do great presentations in PowerPoint and also great video presentations. But for the latter, they've told me that at the end of the day, it's just more time and cost-efficient to create their videos in PowerPoint. And I think the quality speaks for itself.

Glenn Millar at PowerPoint Workbench does a lot of video work in PowerPoint as well, really exploiting the program's functionality. Take a look.

There have been a number of third party solutions for exporting PowerPoint to video, but PPT 2010 now exports directly to WMV format. Plus, the entire video handling has been overhauled in 2010, so if you've been frustrated in the past by broken links, flickering starts, limited control over playback and other issues, take a look at PPT 2010. It's a huge leap forward.