Use PPT Advertising to Promote your Product Easily

Advertising is always considered as an important part of product promotion. But advertising usually costs a lot, so how to get the greatest return while with the minimum input? Get rid of the shackles of advertising agencies, you can now make in-house advertising video or DVD with your own effort easily, that is, creating video or DVD product advertisement based on PowerPoint – PPT advertising. 

• 1> Creating video or DVD advertisement with PowerPoint helps store owners or companies save big budget compared asking video production agencies to do this.

 

• 2> PPT advertising enables users to form the content of the advertisement freely. Product pictures, descriptions, promotion details, and relevant video clips can be listed in a sequence in PPT according to the purpose of the advertisement.

 

• 3> The carefully designed PPT advertisement can be displayed on TV through DVD players or on digital signage.

 

• 4> You can easily change the promotion information only by updating the relevant product information and PowerPoint template. And then with a RW DVD disc, another video or DVD PPT ad will come out.

 

• 5> Grow your business with no weekly or monthly fees to update your promotion advertising DVD/video periodically. 

Now that so many advantages we can take from PPT advertising, let’s see how to create a promotional advertisement with PowerPoint right away. Here I take an ice scream promotion for example.

Step 1: Choose a proper PowerPoint template for your PPT advertisement

Make sure it can reflex what you do. Here you can find many delicate free PowerPoint templates from Wondershare. 

Step 2: Show what you want to display to customers in the PowerPoint

You can add various elements in PPT advertisement, such as pictures, words, animations, voices, and even videos. Here is a screenshot of what I display about the different taste of ice creams.

Step 3: Add information that may attract your customer

If there is any discount information that can attract your customer, do add this to your PPT advertising.

 

Step 4: Check your PPT advertising and make it more delicate

Carefully check your PowerPoint advertisement after you finish doing it. Make changes to it if necessary. For more pleasant visual effect, you can reference the PowerPoint operating skills here. 

Step 5: Burn the PowerPoint advertisement onto DVD discs or convert it to video

By doing this, you can display your PPT advertisement on TV or through electronic panels in your store or company. To realize this, you can try this PowerPoint to DVD burner and PowerPoint to Video converter. 

To make your PPT advertising more professional, here are some other aspects you should pay attention to: 

• 1> Know what is the primary purpose of your PPT advertisement
• 2> Show what unique benefits can you offer customers, and at whom you are aiming this PowerPoint ad
• 3> Know what response you want to get from your audience 

With the tips above and your delicate design, I believe, your first PPT advertising would be perfect and rewarding. Save your money, and use your talent to boom your sales with PPT advertising now.

How to Enhance Digital Photo for Photo Album Making

We may take many photos on Holidays and events, like Birthday, Wedding, and Reunion. With these beautiful or funny pictures, we would like to make a photo album with animation and music to bring more life to the pictures.

If you have PowerPoint, it is recommended in my old posts to make digital photo album.

Before we start to add photos to our photo album project, we may need to optimize or enhance the picture with some special effects.

We do not have professional photo editing tool Photoshop. What can we do?

Don’t worry. We can use some online free photo editor to do this.

The following two recommended websites would help you.

http://editor.pho.to/

http://www.freeonlinephotoeditor.com

We can use them to:

1> Rotate, Crop and Resize it.

2> Adjust its basic effects.

3> Enhance it by applying special or artistic effects.

4> Add frames, texts (or glitter texts) or even watermark.

Here below are three samples made by me.

To remove the red-eye with one click

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/3649407279_dbf6cb0571.jpg?v=0

To add frame

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3642/3649407365_23959fa973.jpg?v=0

To apply artistic effect and add glitter text

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2432/3649407443_dfccf8895b.jpg?v=0

Besides these kinds of online editor, you can also use some shareware to make photo collages for the photo album, digital scrapbook.

If you have Windows PC, you may try this Photo Collage.

If you have Mac, you may try this iCollage tool.

Article from:

http://videopptpower.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/how-to-enhance-digital-photo-for-photo-album-making/

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Create a back-to-school Slideshow

As summer vacation goes to the end, the new semester begins. Kids should go back to school. Through the long holiday, they would miss each other very much. Thus, it would be a wonderful idea for teachers to hold a story-telling class. Teachers can ask students to collect their summer vacation stories and make into story slideshows by themselves, and then show the story with others. It is good for improving the relationship among students and also cultivating their various interests, broadening their view sights.

Besides, it is a fun way to integrate literacy and technology into the multimedia classroom. The following are the steps on how teachers to hold such an activity.

1. Ask students prepare the story slideshow

Step 1: Choose tool and prepare resources

A computer with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or any other early versions installed.

As a teacher, you can also provide your kids with some stunning PowerPoint templates. You can find some educational PowerPoint templates from the link below.

http://www.ppt2dvd.com/free-education-powerpoint-templates.html#149

Step 2: Create a story slideshow

Part I -Prepare Slides

Help each student to create an about 5 slides story PowerPoint slideshow with some interesting and special things happened during their summer vacation.

Part II – Import the photos and add descriptions

When students begin to import the photos to the presentation, you can help them to edit photo shapes in PowerPoint to make their photos look more beautiful and perfect. Please follow the simple steps below: Open PowerPoint 2007 -> Insert -> Images -> Choose photos. Then double click a photo, you can see the Picture Tools options in the tool bar. With it, you can get any picture style or shape you want because more than a hundred shapes are provided here. Comparing with other photo editing tools, I think PowerPoint editor is really convenient and easy-to-use. When you settle down the issue of photo edition, now you can help them to add some descriptions to their story slideshows.

2. Students share story slideshows one by one in story-telling class

When slideshows are completed, now it is the time for children to share their story slideshows in story-telling class. It is a good way to develop the skills of telling story for children to share story slideshow in the front of classmates. Here are some points you can remind children to pay more attention to while sharing story slideshows.

• Don’t stare at the story slideshow all the time, just recite all the information from memory.

• Ask some questions to attract the attention of your classmates. When they give a correct answer to your question you presented, they can win a piece of candy or something else. It is a good way to ask them to interactive with you.

• Be self-confident while speaking. Don’t talk monotonously like Ben Stein, have some flare.

• Put some comedic relief into your story slideshow to relieve a little bit of the boredom, maybe something tiny about half-way through the story slideshow.

3. Teachers integrate all story slideshows to one back-to-school slideshow

After the story-telling class, you can integrate all story slideshows to one back-to-school slideshow as a souvenir. Following are some advices for you to create a back-to-school slideshow.

•Prepare a wonderful introduction and ending for the back-to-school slideshow. In addition, you can add some good wishes or new semester goals for children.

•Choose an appropriate song for the back-to-school slideshow.

4. Enjoy the back-to-school slideshow together

Now you can enjoy the back-to-school slideshow with your students together through the Projector. Furthermore, if you want to distribute it to your kids and even to the ones who do not have computers, and also want to share it with your friends or put it online, you can convert slideshow to video with the help of Wondershare PPT to Video or Convert Slideshow to DVD to View Slideshow on TV with your family members.

If you are a teacher, you can get all PowerPoint conversion programs with 40% discount during our Back to School Offer. For full details pelease contact them.

Enjoy it and wish you have a good beginning of the new semester.

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A Better Way to Host Summer Family Reunion – Enjoy Genealogy Slideshow

A Better Way to Host Summer Family Reunion – Enjoy Genealogy Slideshow

Summer vacation is the perfect time of one year for people to hold their annual family reunion. Therefore, summer family reunion is very popular.

Each year, we have experienced our reunion with all kinds of activities such as planting a tree, organizing a family softball /volleyball game, enjoying the sunshine at a beach and so on. Would you want to spend this family reunion in a meaningful and economical way during such recession time? Here below is a one-day gathering timeline and activity outline.

Activity outline of this summer vacation

• • Morning~noon: Drive to get together around noon

• • Afternoon: Have a simple lunch and then enjoy genealogy slideshow made with memorable pictures, from the new babies to the proud grandparents

• • Night: Hold a Night BBQ along with talent show to bring your own karaoke music

You do not need to go out farther and do not need to pay for the recreation ground to save your budget. Certainly, you can incorporate some other activities to plan a two-day reunion.

Create a genealogy slideshow
1>Things to be prepared

• A computer with PowerPoint installed, or some other photo slideshow software

• Pictures of family members

If you have a computer with Microsoft PowerPoint installed, you can make a family album to remember and cherish the special moments of each member in your family history. And you do not need to buy and learn to use other photo slideshow software.

2>Steps to create a genealogy slideshow

Step 1: Collect pictures

You should ask other family members to provide pictures.
Pictures on special events or funny pictures about your family members would be OK. Pictures and video clips of both new babies and grandparents are required.

Step 2: Save all the digital pictures and the scanned ones in a new document with a name of family album.

Step 3: Create a family reunion slideshow with PowerPoint and you can start the album with the pictures of your forefathers, and then the younger ones, at last the kids.

Step 4: Add a number of vivid caption bubbles to describe the pictures and bring more life to this slideshow.

Step 5: Add video clips to your slideshow

You can add some family video clips that you have collected from the family member to spice up your slideshow. Click here to know how to add videos to PowerPoint presentation.

Step 6: Add music to your slideshow

Click the article How to Add Music Song to PowerPoint Presentation to know the details.
Recommended sweet songs

Here is a list of songs that really show an appreciation and love between or for family members, you can choose one of them to add to your slideshow.

“Butterfly Kisses” by Bob Carlisle

“Then They Do” by Trace Adkins

“Find Your Wings” by Mark Harris

“My Front Porch Looking In” by Lonestar

“I Will Be Here” by Steven Curtis Chapman

…

Well done! A meaningful genealogy slideshow is completed ahead of your family reunion.

Enjoy the genealogy slideshow

Family members can enjoy the genealogy slideshow that you created after lunch. You can view it on computer with your family together. I also want to suggest you view PowerPoint slideshow on wide screen TV or plasma if you have a big family.

To view PowerPoint slideshow on TV, you need to save your PowerPoint to DVD. There are many ways to burn PowerPoint to DVD. An all-on-one PowerPoint to DVD burner named PPT2DVD is recommended. With the built-in burner of this PowerPoint to DVD converter, you can make duplicated copies by burning the output DVD folder or image (iso) file to blank DVDs without converting it again. Then you can disperse it to your relatives for long preserve and memory.

During the Night BBQ and talent show, you may also take vast amount of pictures. In the same way, you can create and distribute the slideshow to other members. You can also make karaoke music DVD with this method.

Enjoy it and have a nice summer family reunion.

Share your memories about Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958) is an American musician, entertainer and businessman who passed away at 2.26PM local time on 26th June 2009 at the UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles. Cardiac arrest was said to be the cause of death….

Now Michael Jackson has left us. People all around the world recalled Michael Jackson by their own ways. Here are three most memorable roles he was successfully played.

Michael Jackson is a musical brilliance-

“I was lucky enough to know and work with Michael Jackson in his prime. Michael was an extraordinary talent and a truly great international star. He had a troubled and complicated life and despite his gifts, remains a tragic figure. My wife, Deborah, and I will always have great affection for him.” lauds John Landis, the director of the music videos “Thriller” and “Black or White”.

Michael Jackson is a philanthropist-

Michael Jackson supported dozens of charities during his life, including USA for Africa, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. A Pop Star reportedly listed him in the 2000 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.” The number was 39.

Michael Jackson is an entertainer-

“I am so saddened by the loss of a great idol and icon, Michael Jackson,” the ‘American Idol’ judge tells Spinner. “He was, to me, the greatest entertainer of all time. He was a huge inspiration for performers across all music genres. He taught us all how to light up the stage.”

Michael Jackson has passed away, but he will always remembered by people.One way is to make DVD slide show with his music.

In addition, if you have PowerPoint and are a fan of PowerPoint, you may use PowerPoint to create a photo slide show with music. You can find some splendid Michael Jackson’s templates below here:
Http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/freetemplates/free-mj-powerpoint-templates-download.html

When completing your PowerPoint slide show, you may want to preserve long for memory, then you can convert your PowerPoint presentation to DVD with a third-party tool to help you. You can find a convert tool from Google “PPT2DVD”. This PowerPoint to DVD converter named PPT2DVD is recommended. After using this method, you can distribute Michael Jackson’s slideshows with DVD copies, display the presentation on TV.

Moreover, you may also want to share your slide show with all subtleties retained in the original PowerPoint, such as animations, transitions, sounds and video clips on website, like YouTube. Then you can convert your Michael Jackson’ PowerPoint presentation to video with a certain format that can be accepted by YouTube. Check out the PowerPoint on YouTube tool. In addition, here is a sample video “Share your memories about Michael Jackson” on YouTube, check it out below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx_Xd_Q-zek

How to view powerpoint presentation on TV

Microsoft PowerPoint is widely used by people. You may use it to create company profiles, informative presentations, presentations on your products or services. Have you ever imagined transferring them to DVD for viewing PowerPoint presentations on TV sets? Thus, you can:

1. Distribute the DVD copies that contained company profile out to potential and existing customers to avoid printing them.

2. Display the informative presentation on TV for waiting room, lobby or foyer.

3. Make in-housing DVD advertising slideshow for your menu board of your restaurant, nightclub, ice cream store, or hot books in your bookstore, and so on.

Then, how can we view PowerPoint on TV? The method to view PowerPoint on standard TV is different from the method to view PPT through Apple TV.

View PowerPoint on stand TV with DVD player

To play PowerPoint presentation on TV, you need to use a solution to save your PowerPoint presentation to DVD. A time-effective method is to use an all-in-one PPT to DVD converter that retain all subtleties in the original PowerPoint, such as animations, transitions, sounds, video clips, and even hyperlinks between slides!

Wondershare PPT2DVD is recommended. Moreover,it is an easy-to-use utility that could burn your PPT into blank DVD disc so that you could watch PPT on TV or other media player without a computer. Follow the steps to convert PowerPoint to DVD:

Step 1: Download and install PPT2DVD converter. Start it and mount an empty DVD disc.

Step2: Choose Standard DVD as the output choice.

Step3: Import PowerPoint presentation with PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX entensions which you want to save to DVD. You can import up to 12 files at one time.

Step4: Do choose the right TV standard and leave other advanced settings as default for the first testing.

Step5: Choose the right DVD menu theme you want or customize it.

Step6: Tick Burn to Disc and click Start the converting and burning process.

After conversion and burning, you can play your PowerPoint presentations with PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX extensions on TV through DVD player.

Obviously, this is a time-effective and easy-to-use method for viewing PowerPoint on TV. Anyway, DVD player is very cheap, at the some time, it is convenient for distribution after burning PowerPoint to DVD.

Watch PowerPoint on TV via Apple TV

Apple TV is a network device that allows consumers to use an HDTV set to view photos, play music and watch video that originates from an Internet media service or a local network. When you want to watch PowerPoint on TV via Apple TV, you should follow these steps:

Step 1: Convert PowerPoint to certain Video formats like MP4 that can accepted by iTunes and sync. You can use this tool PowerPoint to Apple TV. You can also use PPT2DVD converter or PPT to Video converter help you convert the certain format that can accepted by Apple TV.

Step 2: Upload the video to iTunes and sync to Apple TV, then you can watch you presentation on you HDTV.

Further benefits to view PPT on TV

• Show presentations with everybody without a computer.

• Share your slideshows to others widely and freely, because TV sets and DVD player are very popular.

• Prevent your presentations be modified by others.

• Preserve your slideshows for a long time

After using these methods, we can distribute the company profile with DVD copies, display the informative presentation on TV in waiting room, lobby or foyer, and make in-housing DVD advertising slideshow easily. Actually, by saving PowerPoint to DVD, you can also create training DVD, annual report, and photo slideshow and so on.

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Reduce the Size of PowerPoint Slideshow for e-mail

Problem：I just made a slide show of my honeymoon to Hawaii with PowerPoint. I want to share it with my friends and relatives. However, it is too big to send as e-mail attachment. What can I do?

Solutions:
You need to reduce the size of your PowerPoint slideshow. The following solutions will help you reduce the size of your PowerPoint.

1. Change graphics file formats to reduce the size of PowerPoint:

There may be many images in graphic formats like bitmap (.bmp) in your PowerPoint presentation. You can open bitmap images with a program like Microsoft accessory tool -Paint to converts images and save them in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf to make your presentation smaller. Once your images have been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your slide.
It is a little time-consuming to save all the images again if there are lots of pictures.

2. Use file Save as :

This method can reduce the size of the file by up to 50% in some cases.

Step 1: Open the PowerPoint slide show.
Step 2: Click Microsoft office button

• Under the pop-up window click save as arrow.
• In the file type dropdown list Choose PowerPoint presentation
• Type a new name and click save.

3. Compress Pictures in PowerPoint:

Compress pictures in your presentation, then you can optimize the size by compressing pictures.

Step1: click the picture to bring up the Picture Tools

• Under the picture tool tab just Click Format
• In the Adjust group click Compress Pictures

Step2: on the Compress Pictures window choose the Options…

Step3: on the Compression Settings window:

• Compression options: automatically perform basic compression on save and delete cropped areas of pictures.
• Target output: Choose E-mail (96 ppi) output to reduce the size of PowerPoint Click ok.
  

4. Converting your PowerPoint presentation to flash:

You could try to convert your presentation to Flash and send the Flash file to others. The music will be embedded in Flash presentation. And then the flash slide show could be show on other computers without any problems.

Some third party presentation tool such as Wondershare PPT2Flash Standard can help you do this work. You can convert it with one click. Of course, all the original effect can be retained in Flash. Alternatively, you can also convert your PowerPoint presentation to video.

Note:
If your slide show is too large with hundreds of MB, you may also consider saving it on DVD for distributing and sharing. Wondershare PPT2DVD would help you save your PowerPoint slide show to DVD with music and all animations retained.

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How can I view PowerPoint 2007 files on the computer with PowerPoint 2003?

Problem

I just completed my photo slide show with PowerPoint 2007 and I want to share it with my best friend. However, she only has PowerPoint 2003 on her computer.
How can we view PowerPoint 2007 slide show on the computer with PowerPoint 2003?

Solutions

1. Resave the PowerPoint 2007 presentation in PowerPoint 97-2003 format.

Step 1: Open the PowerPoint slide show.
Step 2: Click Microsoft office button, and click Save as. Then choose PowerPoint 1997-2003 presentation in the file type dropdown list.

2. Use the Package a Presentation for CD feature in PowerPoint 2007.

You can package your presentation to the CD for distributing freely. To packages a presentation for CD, do the following:
Step1: In PowerPoint, open the presentation that you want to package.
Step2: Click the Microsoft Office Button, point to the arrow next to Publish, and then click Package for CD.
Step3: In the Package for CD dialog box, click Options, and then select the options that you want.
Step4: Click Copy to CD.

Disadvantages of the solutions above:
Some of the effects in PowerPoint 2007 would be lost. The solutions below can solve the problems caused by version difference and avoid the missing problem.

3. Download and install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats.

For more details please check it out below:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

4. Download the free PowerPoint Viewer 2007 directly from Microsoft Office Online

For more details please check it out below:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

5. Use some third-party tools to convert and burn PowerPoint presentation to DVD

Wondershare PPT2DVD enables users to convert existing PowerPoint presentations to dynamic DVD with stunning DVD menus or popular video movies with ease .After conversion, you can view your PowerPoint slide show on TV or on PC like a movie without any version difference or compatible problem. What’s more, you can even choose to create DVD to play in manual mode which enables you to navigate the slide show using remote control on TV or mouse on PC.
You can download

powerpoint to DVD burner

and have a try right now.

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DIY In-House Advertising DVD Based on PowerPoint

Are you running a store on your own?

Are you planning to create your own In-House Advertising DVD which can be shown on plasma TV sets throughout the self-owned dental practice, estate agency, ice store, restaurant or bar and the like?

Are you looking ahead, for hoping for the best and planning for the worst to save nickels and dimes to create the advertising DVD by yourself under the pressure of expensive quote for video-graphy and editing during such storm of budget in economic recession time?

Are you a fan or addict to PowerPoint?

If you say “yes” to all above, you can follow the solution below to DIY in-house advertising DVD for your own business.

It is a solution to create advertising DVD based on delicate PowerPoint presentations. Here below is a sample.

How to do?

->> Step 1

Create PowerPoint slide show with the prepared stuff for the in-house advertising DVD, including pictures, video clips and audio, text and so on.

->> Step 2

Convert the completed PowerPoint slide show to DVD format and burn to DVD disc using some PowerPoint to DVD converters, like Wondershare PPT2DVD without any attendance.

You are even allowed to put up to 12 presentations in one single DVD with stunning DVD menus. You can display different advertising around a week.

->> Step 3

Done! Display your self-made DVD advertising on TV in your own store.

Benefits of this Solution

->> Both MS Office PowerPoint and such PowerPoint to DVD converters are easy to use. If you have already been skilled to use PowerPoint, there is no learning curve. You do not need to strive to learn some other video to DVD burner or DVD authoring tools. It saves you much time.

->> To save the budget for your business as video editing and creating service is always expensive.

->> You can make full use of the animations, transitions and other features of PowerPoint to compile your prepared photos & pictures, video clips, songs and other elements.

->> The in-house advertising DVD can be easily modified and updated based on the original template of your PowerPoint slideshow which contains logo, ETC. It is convenient and time-saving.

->> To choose +RW or –RW disc to be used again and again to save money.

->> PPT2DVD comes with many and stunning DVD menu templates, including DVD menu themes.

It’s all that easy and inexpensive. You can also exploit your creativity to the full to make your satisfied DVD slide show for advertisement.

You can find a case on this page.

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How to Create DVD slideshow with Stunning DVD Menu Based on PowerPoint

PowerPoint’s power can be stretched out of a crutch just when you presenting. PowerPoint can be used to create slideshow for all kinds of celebration like the passed-by Easter.

PowerPoint converter like Wondershare PPT2DVD is a good choice to empower you to transfer your PowerPoint slideshow to DVD slideshow to be played on TV. And Wondershare PPT2DVD provides newly added DVD menu themes to make you look more professional to create DVD with stunning DVD menu.

How can we create DVD slideshow with PowerPoint to DVD converter?

->> Create slideshow in PowerPoint with its plenty of transition and animation, clipart ETC.
->> Download PPT2DVD converter from the this link.
->> Install PPT2DVD and import your completed PowerPoint slideshow. And choose both manual mode and auto mode if you like.
->> On the preferences window, you just need to choose the right TV standard. If you do not know which one to choose, you may select it by choosing country. Leave other settings by default when testing it.
->> Click Next and come to the DVD menu setting window.
->> Click Design button or one of the five menu thumbs to enter into the menu designing panel. You just need to choose the right theme from the template from the right gallery. It contains Business, Family, Celebration, Education catalogues. After that, the theme can be applied by click Apply to All button on top side. Then you would get DVD menu theme with matched frames, buttons and icons by default.

->> Besides DVD menu theme and templates, you may also customize your own DVD menu just by clicking the Customize… button. Here below is an illustration with changed Icon, Frame, Button, and modified position. You create different menu based on the menu theme or template.

->> Leave it to your PC to convert it and burn it to your testing RW DVD disc.
->> Done! Then you can play your DVD slideshow which is created by PPT2DVD converter.

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What’s the difference between the DVD menu theme and old menu template of this DVD authoring tool?

->> In the previous version Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.2, the background of the DVD menu templates are the same.
In the new version of Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.3, the backgrounds of the root menu, title menu and the play options menu are not the same but a couple of similar pictures.
->> The backgrounds, frames, icons and buttons are more vivid.
->> It is allowed to add title along with description of your project.
->> You can download additional free DVD menu templates from the link below to enrich your DVD menu resources.

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