PowerPoint Tips: thanksgiving dinner

Thanksgivings Day falls on a typical American dinner with a table of pumpkin pies, fat turkeys, fresh fruit and desserts, surrounded by a joyful family. What a warm picture in the winter! Furthermore, you can add a cool digital color to the Thanksgiving dinner with a family DVD slideshow. When all of your family are seated together at the dinner table, eat and rest over the staggering DVD slideshow of Thanksgiving on TV. In this post, I will introduce how to make a Thanksgiving DVD with PowerPoint to express your hearted thanks.

First, have your Thanksgiving story or photo album structured in PowerPoint. Is it a story of gratitude or a photo show of joy? It depends. Once you set up the theme of the Thanksgiving slideshow, select a design of template or background for the festival presentation. For free Thanksgiving templates/backgrounds, go to the page Download Free Thanksgiving PowerPoint Backgrounds

To import your Thanksgiving photos or pictures into your presentation, use Insert -> Photo Album -> New Photo Album to add in all the images as required.

To edit the photos after insertion, employ the Edit Photo Album feature. You can accompany a line of captions to each photo slide, and even animate them with a variety of wipes and effects.

To wow your audience, you can still add in a Thanksgiving song or movie clip from YouTube or else hot video sites. For details, click on how to insert a sound to your Thanksgiving PowerPoint and how to embed a video/movie to Thanksgiving PowerPoint presentation

Ensuring the Thanksgiving presentation is much to your satisfaction, you can forward to the second step:

Burn the Thanksgiving PowerPoint content to the fix-media DVD

Before playing your Thanksgiving slideshow on TV, it is necessary of a format conversion from PPT/PPTX to DVD. Because computer-dependent PowerPoint files are not TV compatible. Thanks to the emergence of at-one-go conversion software, you can easily move the content from your Thanksgiving presentation to a recording DVD (not a data DVD) and play it on a TV attached with a DVD player. Here I would take Moyea PPT to DVD Burner as an example. Like Adobe Captive, the PowerPoint to DVD burner can create a DVD out of your Thanksgiving PPT file, keeping all the animations and audio-video portions. It is simpler in use and much cheaper, saving nearly $700 than Adobe Captive.

Here is a brief introduction to making a Thanksgiving DVD from PowerPoint:

1. Download and install Moyea PPT to DVD Burner onto your local drive. Insert a blank DVD disk, run the program and import the Thanksgiving PowerPoint presentation for DVD.

2. Under the Output Options, select Create Standard DVD or Create High Definition DVD (recommended). From the Menu tab, select a holiday DVD menu for the slideshow. You can also personalize and protect the DVD slideshow with the Logo feature.

3. Move on to the Burn tab, and click Start to burn the Thanksgiving PowerPoint presentation onto DVD.

In a few minutes, you may get a PowerPoint DVD for your Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a great delight to power your thanks on a big TV screen to the beloved ones, when gathering by the very Thanksgiving table, isn’t it?

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