Publish Powerpoint as Flash presentations on the web

S.E.O. Technologies' Powerpack service transforms your Powerpoint presentation, allowing the inclusion of audio voice-overs and video files, which are synchronised to the Powerpoint slides and slide transitions, and converted into an easily installable Flash presentation format for publishing to the Web or to interactive cd-rom.

Because we don't use any form of streaming technology in publishing the Powerpack file, the finished product can be published on multiple delivery systems - on your web site, or on cd-rom, with no specialised server requirements or streaming technology required.

A typical business / corporate Powerpoint presentation ranges between 25 and 75 megabytes in file size. Adding a short 2-minute video (even in compressed mpeg format) will add another 75 megabytes. Adding the presenter's narration to the Powerpoint will add an additional 75 megabytes of audio, making a total of up to 225 megabytes. That's a hefty amount of files to get across the web.

Under normal circumstances, publishing a presentation of this size to the Internet would be virtually impossible, because of download speeds and bandwidth issues.

Additionally, Powerpoint files are not secure and can potentially be edited or changed. Nor do you have control over what version of Powerpoint your audience has (if any) or their operating system, computer processing capability or download speed.

Our Powerpack service solves all of these problems...

• The 225 megabyte presentation mentioned above gets reduced to less than 20 megabytes
• Powerpack converts all of the above media into Adobe Flash, the world's most highly accepted web browser plugin - Adobe claim a 99% penetration rate of all Internet users.
• Your user doesn't need any software to be installed - it all streams progressively into their web browser.
• The entire presentation can be installed on your web site in 5 minutes.
• Here's an example - this presentation was originally 225 megabytes, and has been reduced to less than 20 - click here to view.

The progressive download technology and compression capabilities of the software used in our Powerpack service represents a genuine breakthrough in this area - your Powerpoint slides, video and audio are all streamlined and compressed, and the finished version is presented to the viewer in seconds - with no compromise on quality.

Viewing a presentation without the presenter's presentation speech provided is similar to watching a movie with the sound turned off - you only catch a portion of the message.

A Powerpack Flash presentation is both audio-driven, and synchronised to what happens within the presentation - not just the slide transitions, but synchronised right down to the animations within each slide that occur in response to mouse clicks.

The Powerpack Flash presentation runs automatically, but also with great flexibility - the viewer sees your presentation synchronised with the recorded audio, or they can select from a titled slide menu and jump straight to the content they're most interested in - with the presentation audio re-synchronised from the slide they choose to view. All this is achieved without any of the restrictions associated with streaming technology - Powerpack does not stream the presentation from a server, it progressively loads small portions of the presentation into the viewing screen as required.

This means we can install the finished Powerpack Flash presentation not just on your web site, but also provide you with a version for your company cd-rom for distribution purposes.

We also have flexibility in the publishing quality requirements you may have - Our compression of your presentation can be varied for different requirements - high quality audio and high quality video for CD / DVD delivery, or more compressed versions for the Web.

Powerpack is a service provided by SEO Technologies, not packaged software sold as an installable application.

The reason for this is that there are too many variable technologies used in presentations, such as operating system type, Powerpoint version, audio and video length / type / codec, plus installation and web hosting variables.

To comprehensively supply a software package that would cover all these possibilities would be prohibitively expensive, thus our creation of the Powerpack service, where we perform the conversion and optimisation of your presentations for the Web.

We use our multimedia expertise to provide you with the same quality of web presentation as those shown above, no matter what you used to originally produce it.

You don't need to purchase any software to use our service - we offer full production, recording and publishing facilities for your presentation, or you can record the Powerpoint presentation yourself, and simply upload the files to us via our secure upload service for conversion...

Option 1: We have a high degree of expertise and experience with Powerpoint, Flash, online video production and with audio recording. You can take advantage of our expertise by having SEO Technologies act as production consultants for your presentation, in preparation for publication to the web. We will become involved in all aspects of designing, recording and production.

Option 2: If your presentation will be in a "live" setting such as a conference or meeting, you can record the audio during your presentation and provide it to us as a separate audio recording for merging with your presentation. In this case, you will also need to record the slide timings for your presentation. To get the finished files to us, you can upload them via our file upload system, or send the files by courier or mail.
The completed audio can be in .wav or .mp3 formats, or we can even convert them from tape if necessary.

Option 3: If you have Powerpoint 2000 or later and a microphone and speakers, you can record the presentation including the narration yourself, and upload it to us, and we will then convert your Powerpoint to Flash - our Powerpack conversion. Find out how by clicking this link.