Ever wanted to make an autoplaying, looping DVD that looks good on a widescreen 16:9 display from a powerpoint presentation slide deck?

Here is a  process in which you can start with powerpoint on a Mac or PC (Office 2007 on Vista PC used for this example)

PowerPoint (Mac or PC):

Design->Page Setup->Custom 27.09cm x 15.24 cm Just like (THIS presentation available from slideshare)

Make your slides (with bugger all text boys and girls)

Save As (Other Formats) jpeg (exports each and every slide to a .jpg image of 1024x576 pixels precisely)

Quicktime player (pro) (Mac or PC):

file open image sequence, pick first file in numbered series from the folder created by powerpoint save as

allow 10sec per frame

save as quicktime .mov movie (will use apple jpeg codec by default) expect about 4mb per 100 slides.

iDVD (Mac only):

iDvd new project, 16x9 PAL (Professional Quality)

Drag your .mov to autoplay area in the 'map' view

Select that movie and choose options -> loop

Burn to DVD.

All will be good.

converting powerpoint presentation to widescreen DVD format using mixture of windows XP vista 2000 office machines and only one Apple mac OSX with iLife06 or better.

1024x576 DVD PAL