Exporting a presentation as a movie file

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Exporting a presentation as a movie file

Note: This function is not available for Linux, macOS or the Android/iOS version.

The ribbon command File | group Document | Export as dropdown_arrow | Movie exports your presentation (more precisely: its slide show) to a movie file.

Proceed as follows:

1.Create or open the desired presentation.
2.Choose the ribbon command File | group Document | Export as dropdown_arrow | Movie.
3.A dialog box appears. Make the desired settings there (see below) and confirm with OK.
4.The slide show is now played in a window. At the same time, it is recorded as a video file.
If your presentation contains transitions or animations that have to be advanced manually, use the space bar or press the left mouse button to continue at the desired speed. The resulting movie file will then use the same timing.
5.When the slide show has finished, Presentations stops recording and saves the movie file.

To view the resulting video, open the movie file in a video player of your choice.

Notes

If you want to temporarily pause the video recording while it is running, you can always click on the button with the pause icon.

If you want to stop the recording before the slide show ends, click on the button with the stop icon.

Options of the dialog box

In the dialog box of this command, you can make the following settings:

Note: If you are unsure what to set for Movie format, Codec and Video options, you can simply apply the default settings.

Movie format

Here, you can set the file format in which you want to record the video.

Codec

Here, you can choose a different video encoder to create the video.

Movie file

Here, you can specify the path and file name of the movie file to be created.

File size limit

Here, you can specify the maximum size of the movie file. If the limit is exceeded, Presentations stops the video recording and issues an error message.

Slides

Here, you can specify which slides to display in the video recording:
All: Use all slides of the presentation.
From ... To: Use only the range of slides between the first slide and the last slide selected here.
Custom slide show: Use only the slides in the custom slide show that is selected here. (For more information, see also Custom shows.)

Video options

Here, you can make changes to the quality settings of the resulting movie file.
Width: This option specifies the width of the movie (in pixels).
Height: This option specifies the height of the movie (in pixels).
Frame rate: This option specifies the frame rate – that is, how many pictures are recorded per second.
Bit rate: This option specifies the bit rate – that is, how many kilobytes are stored per second.

Play movie after creation

If you enable this option, the resulting movie will automatically open in your video player when the recording is complete.