Creating MPEG and Flash Video Presentations
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If you are an internet marketer you no doubt are aware of the coming dominance of video in online selling. In just a few short years, video presentations as a marketing tool have gone from the province of big-time corporations to the primary driving force of one-person websites.
The reason for this is pretty obvious. Previous standard website marketing required users to navigate through dozens of pages on a site to get to the point of comprehension. Then you had to read more pages of stuff to get to the point of deciding if the product or service would suffice your needs, if the price was right, etc.
Those days are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Everyone loves video – we are hooked on a TV-like presentation that allows us to be sold to. Well, luckily, there have been several recent advancements that now make this possible – bringing the marketing vehicle of a professional, video presentation well within the reach of even the most frugal online marketer.
While you can certainly pick up the phone and spend upwards of $1,000 on a professionally done custom video to beef up your marketing punch, most people would opt for a more inexpensive solution that gets the job done for a fraction of that price. Well, cheer up – this article is intended to help you do just that.
All you need to spend is about $95 total – this is a one-time purchase – for PowerPoint 2007 (get an OEM copy online) and a PowerPoint to video utility. We recommend using a product called PPTonTV from FlashDemo.net for about $50. This completes the actual money you need to spend and these are one-time expenditures that will support the creation of thousands of video presentations. Always make sure to run a registry update after creating your video file. You can purchase and download a top registry software package that does this. They also perform the other registry fix functions that accomplish any needed corrections.
Follow these instructions and you will have your own video fast! You will first be creating a PowerPoint presentation with sufficient pages to present your product or service. It only takes a few days to get up to speed on PowerPoint. The real secret – after getting acquainted via the training and user manuals – is to duplicate everything – screens, frames, graphics, etc. This shaves hours off the next video creation time. Free graphics and sound files are available online. Follow the user guides that instruct you on how to insert stock video streams into your PowerPoint presentation.
You will then be doing a narration – a sound file that is added to the PPT file – with you speaking into a microphone ($19 at Radio Shack). Play the presentation over and over until you get it right. Next, use the PPT to Video package to convert the PowerPoint presentation to an MPEG IV. You can upload this to your website and insert it – as you would insert a graphic file – and you are all set. Eventually you might want to graduate to another utility that converts MPEG to Flash Video for faster loading and playback.
Finally, use the Registry Repair function of your system registry software after your video file is converted.
