DVDShow for PowerPoint

Any PowerPoint presentation can be loaded in an Office suite or application that supports the PPT or PPTX format, but in the absence of such an application, it cannot be viewed. If you want to create a presentation to give as a gift, sharing a video is much simpler than sending a PPT file. That is where DVDShow for PowerPoint comes in, providing a quick means of turning your presentations into DVD videos.

Working with the application is very intuitive, as it does not have many options and menus for you to go through. It displays a compact one-window interface that comprises all the settings in the simplest way possible.

There is a field that enables you to select the Powerpoint file to use as a source, alongside another that you can use to select the location of the DVD folder to burn. On the downside, drag and drop actions are not possible, so you will have to settle for the standard explorer window to choose the input.

Although poor in configuration options, DVDShow for PowerPoint does allow you to choose between PAL and NTSC conversion modes for the output video, and customize the aspect ratio (16:9 and 4:3 are the two alternatives in this case).

Half of the main window of DVDShow for PowerPoint is occupied by the preview area, but this failed to work properly during our tests.

You can also monitor the total progress of the conversion from the loading bar within the main window, although an estimation of the remaining time is not displayed.

Although it comes with a look that might seem slightly outdated and a limited amount of options, the functionality of DVDShow for PowerPoint is well-intended and might fancy to users. The application promises to duplicate the original presentation exactly as it is and preserve the graphics, the attached audio tracks, and the transitions. However, it would have been better if the input presentation could have been converted to a locally-stored video as well, and not necessarily a DVD.