We don’t need to say much about uploading video to YouTube, but how can you publish your PowerPoint on YouTube, especially when it is Mac PowerPoint presentation? PowerPoint on Windows and Mac are different so there are different methods to solve this problem. Since YouTube only accept video format, so you need to save the Mac PowerPoint presentation as movie first.

For Mac PowerPoint 2011, you can directly save PowerPoint as movie. But the animation effects of the original PowerPoint file will be removed when saving as QuickTime movie. Click “File”, and choose “Save as Movie”. In the pop up window, type in the file name and select a destination folder for the output movie. Click “Movie Options” to adjust the movie parameters, such as size, quality, slide transition, background soundtrack, etc.

For previous PowerPoint versions, you can save PowerPoint slides as images first and then import to iMovie. Click “Save As” and choose image as output format to save all the PowerPoint slides as still images. Then with the help of iPhoto you can import the images to iMovie and create a movie. Because only the text and background pictures are saved on the images, you will need to add background music, transitions, etc.

The best way to save Mac PowerPoint as movie and preserve the original PowerPoint effects is PowerPoint to video converter. Bad news is that no Mac version is on market. Good news is that with the help of Parallels for Mac, you can run the PPT converter on Mac. Easy and intuitive to use, only 3 steps you can convert PowerPoint to QuickTime movie. Run the program and click “Add” to add PowerPoint files. Then select a video format from the “Profile” drop-down list. If you know knowledge about computer and video parameters, you can click “Settings” to edit the output video parameters. Finally, hit “Start” button to start conversion.

Have fun to publish your Mac PowerPoint presentation on YouTube.