Nowadays we may find out that we cannot live or work without the help of Microsoft PowerPoint. Wherever we are in an office, an organization, a classroom, or at home, Microsoft PowerPoint is indispensable. When you’ve made a presentation with PowerPoint and are about to deliver it to Mac or Linux, or publish it on Internet, or view it on Smartphones or tablets, however, you may find that you can’t. To view PowerPoint with all the original effects, on Mac you can install the Microsoft Office Mac version, while on Linux, many elements will lost with Open Office since no Microsoft Office Linux version is released. Besides, YouTube will reject your PowerPoint due to format incompatibility. Fortunately, you have another method to view PowerPoint on Mac, Linux or YouTube, etc – to convert PowerPoint presentation to AVI for free.
First, let’s take a brief view on the AVI format.
AVI (Audio Video Interleave), first introduced by Microsoft, is a special case of Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) which divides a file's data into blocks or chunks. An .avi file is used to store audio content or video content compressed with various codecs for playing by Windows Media Player on the computer installed with appropriate codecs. AVI files are supported by Microsoft and even by some standalone DVD players.
How to Convert PowerPoint Presentation to AVI for Free?
Since we are talk about converting PowerPoint, so I suppose you already have Microsoft PowerPoint installed. This method can only be Free if you have the PowerPoint 2010 installed. For previous versions like PowerPoint 2007 and 2003, you need to refer to this article.
At first, save PowerPoint as WMV format in PowerPoint 2010.
In PowerPoint 2010 you can output the PowerPoint as 960×720, 640×480 and 320×240 WMV video directly.
Then, download and install the Free AVI Converter.
Leawo Free AVI Converter is a clean and totally free AVI Converter which can easily convert video to AVI format for further use. It can rip and convert MP4 to AVI, MPG to AVI, WMV to AVI, etc.
Input Formats: WMV, WMA, AVI, RMVB, RM, RA, MOV, QT, MP4, M4V, DV, DAT, MPG, MPEG, MP3, AAC, etc.
Output Formats: AVI, MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc.
Key Features:
- Convert MPG, MOV, WMV, MP4 to AVI
- Join video files together.
After the conversion, you can view the PowerPoint AVI on Mac, Linux, Smartphones, tablets, or upload to YouTube easily. Besides, you can also use this method to add one PowerPoint file into another PowerPoint as reference.