St Patrick’s Day Symbols and Traditions

The Irish-origin holiday St. Patrick’s Day is associated with many special and popular traditions and symbols. If you are interested in MAKING a PowerPoint Slideshow for ST. PATRICK’S DAY, you should first learn something about the holiday. You can also upload the PowerPoint project to YouTube after converting to compatible video with PPT to Video Converter.

Typical Symbols of St. Patrick’s Day

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Shamrock
Why shamrock becomes a symbol of St. Patrick’s Day? Partly because of Ireland’s abundant coverage of clover plants, and largely because of the strong association with Christianity. Shamrock is used to visually illustrate the concept of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) when St. Patrick tries to convert polytheistic pagans to Christianity.

"A clover is one plant with three leaves, but the three leaves are necessary to make it [complete]," explains Prof. Mahony. "[In Christianity,] God is three persons, but it’s not the same as three gods." The simple analogy helps non-Christians understand a fundamental element of the Christian religion, facilitating conversion.

Through retelling this story, shamrock became associated with St. Patrick and Ireland’s conversion to Christianity. It is a widely used to commemorate Saint Patrick’s Day, and in modern times has been appropriated by secular institutions as a symbol for the Irish.

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Four-Leaf Clover
Most clovers are with three leaves, while rare four-leaf clovers do exist. Finding a four-leaf clover is thought to bring one extreme luck. Different from Shamrock, four-leaf clovers have no religious allusions associated with St Patrick’s Day. Each leaf of a four-leaf clover has a respective meaning as hope, faith, love, and happiness.

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Leprechauns
A leprechaun looks like a little old man and dresses like a shoemaker with a cocked hat and leather apron. Aloof and unfriendly, leprechauns live alone and pass the time by mending the shoes of Irish fairies.

According to St. Patrick’s Day: Parades, Shamrocks, and Leprechauns by Elaine Landau, the legend is that the fairies pay the leprechauns for their work with golden coins, which the little people collect in large pots - the famous pots of gold often associated with leprechauns.

Listen closely for the sound of their hammer, and you might be able to capture one! If you do you can force him (with the threat of bodily violence) to reveal where he’s hidden his treasure. Be careful! Do not take your eyes off him for if you do he will surely vanish and your hopes of finding his treasure will vanish with him.

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Green
Do you know why people all wear green on St Patrick’s Day? The tradition is started by school children. Green is also the color of spring, the shamrock, and is related to hope and nature. Green used to be a color for flags of several revolutionary groups in Ireland.

What is more, Ireland has the name of "Emerald Isle" because of its lush natural greenery. Says Prof. Mahony, "One of the things that strikes people all the time is how Ireland is incredibly green–it’s very far north, but it doesn’t get frozen. When people say that ‘Ireland has 40 shades of green,’ they are right!"

St Patrick’s Day Tradition: The luck of the Irish
Will you be lucky this St. Patrick’s Day? If you want, follow this advice:

1. Find a four-leaf clover.

2. Wear green (so you don’t get pinched).

3. Kiss the blarney stone.

4. Catch a Leprechaun if you can.

Have a wonderful St Patrick’s Day!

Free Alice in Wonderland Film Pictures for Your PowerPoint Presentation

Alice in Wonderland, a fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and mainly stared by Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway, has been running through Walt Disney Pictures in 3-D and IMAX 3-D since May 5, 2010 in the United States and United Kingdom.

Adapted from classic Lewis Carroll’s tale, the film is almost a sequel to it, seeing the titular Alice not visiting Wonderland for the first time but returning 13 years later at the age of 19. The grown-up Alice returns to Underland by accident. But she doesn’t remember it at all. She is told that she is the only one that can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon controlled by the Red Queen…

The film is said to be full of ingredients, exquisite costumes, excellent voice casting, brilliant voice, etc. If you are a fan of Burton and interested in the new film, take a glance at these Alice in Wonderland pictures. You can also add those you like to a PowerPoint presentation reviewing the wonderful film.

Free Alice in Wonderland Film Pictures/Images for PowerPoint

Click on a thumbnail(a picture displayed below) to open an Alice in Wonderland full-view picture in a new window. Right-click the enlarged picture to save it to your local computer for use in PowerPoint. Free Dowload!

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Actually, it is an Office to PDF converter that can help organize content made by Word, Excel or PowerPoint in PDF. It also allows users to embed a new font, choose a favorite screen resolution, and compress a slide page. Hence, it perfectly meets the need of IT professionals and computer novices for a smart PDF creator that can save important content safer to SharePoint, print it for paper handout, and email quickly to clients and friends.

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How to Insert 6 Common Types of Video to PowerPoint

Generally, adding a video to your presentation goes easy with a few clicks on Insert > Movies and Sounds > Movie from File (in PowerPoint 97-2003) or Insert > Movie > Movie from file… (in PowerPoint 2007). But the video may not play in your PPT presentation due to a wrong file format. You know, PowerPoint only recognizes 4 video file formats - ASF, AVI, MPEG and WMV.

So, when you are about to insert a flash video from YouTube or Google Video, or a recorded video from your digital camera or Web camera, or a portion of a DVD movie, you’d better check whether it is a compatible file format to PowerPoint.

Here is a list of how-tos for 6 different types of video to insert to a PowerPoint presentation.

• Insert YouTube Video to PowerPoint

  Sure, you can play a YouTube video directly in your presentation using the embedding method, i.e., simply copy and paste the embed code of the video page to the target slide. Note that you must have Internet connection to make the embedding method work.

  In case YouTube is blocked on the target computer, you can download it to your local drive, convert to a supportable video format like AVI or WMV, and insert to your PowerPoint presentation. Because YouTube videos are in FLV, a file format that is not supported by PowerPoint.

  Must-read:
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  Similarly, you can also insert a web video downloaded from Google, Yahoo, MetaCafe, Veoh, etc, with a .flv extension like YouTube videos.

  # Add flash videos from Google, Yahoo, MetaCafe, Veoh: Insert Flash Videos to PowerPoint

• Insert DVD Movie to PowerPoint

  You cannot put a DVD, or an audio or video portion of DVD, straight into any MS PowerPoint program. Coz DVD is not supported by PowerPoint.

  You should use a quality DVD ripper to rip/crop the DVD movie and convert it to AVI or WMV for PowerPoint.

  Must-read: Insert DVD Movie Clips to PowerPoint V.S. Burn PowerPoint Presentation to DVD

• Insert Digital Camera Video to PowerPoint

  If you want to use a funny video stored on your Canon or Nikon camera, you can copy and paste it to your PC. Save the camera video to AVI, and insert to your PowerPoint presentation.

• Insert VHS/Analog Video to PowerPoint

  For VHS or analog videos, you need to use a video capture app or device to convert them to digital ones. Then, save the converted videos as AVI or WMV and insert to your PowerPoint presentation.

• Insert Web Camera Video to PowerPoint

  You recorded a video clip with a web camera on your Dell. Now you would like to use it in a PowerPoint presentation. So, re-save the recorded video clip to AVI. Next, follow the Insert method mentioned at the first line to insert it to your PowerPoint presentation.

• Insert QuickTime Movie to PowerPoint

  Actually, an Apple QuickTime movie (.mov) file is not a supportable video format by PowerPoint. You cannot insert it directly to PowerPoint. You can hyperlink the QuickTime movie to PowerPoint, or convert the MOV file to AVI or WMV and insert to PowerPoint.

  Must-read: How to Add a QuickTime Movie to PowerPoint Presentation?

IMPORTANT PLUS:
To keep your video-inclusive PowerPoint presentation work on a different computer, do not forget to place the source video file and your presentation in the same file folder. Copy the folder to a USB and paste it to the target computer. Sometimes, you need to insert the video again to your presentation.

7 Best Ways To Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video

You might look for a tool to convert PowerPoint to video when you have a cool presentation to share on YouTube, when you need to put a business presentation on iPhone, when you are about to transfer a PPT course to another computer not compatible, yet without an effect lost - Original specials like animations, transitions, narrations, audio and video clips get fully retained.

Google collects a wealth of PowerPoint to video solutions. And I have tried and tested a bulk of 30 from the first 10 pages for the keyword “convert PowerPoint to video”, and finally summed up the top-ranked 7 among them, shown as below.

7 Best Ways to Convert PowerPoint Presentations to Video

1. Dedicated PPT to Video Conversion Software

Many third-party shareware can help convert PowerPoint presentations to video files. Take Moyea PPT to Video Converter for example. The commercial software lets you convert a PowerPoint presentation to LOSSLESS video in 100+ file formats, e.g. ASF, AVI, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, etc.

Convert PowerPoint to Video with Moyea PPT to Video Converter

To convert a PowerPoint presentation to video with Moyea PPT to Video, do these 3 steps:

Step 1 - Install the PowerPoint to video converter and import the presentation(s) that you want to convert.

Step 2 - Select an output video format you need. You can also customize video profile parameters to be perfect fit.

Step 3 - Click "Start" to convert the presentation to video.

Pros: Most commercial PPT to Video converters are able to keep all the original PowerPoint components such as animations and sounds to an output video, making it a comfort to upload your presentation to YouTube and other social media nets like blogs, podcasts, as well as to view it on your iPod, iPhone and Blackberry.

2. Camtasia Studio

Camtasia Studio is a popular screen recorder developed by TechSmith and capable of creating quality videos out of PowerPoint presentations.

Convert PowerPoint to Video with Camtasia Studio

Here follows a simple guide on how to make video slideshow with Camtasia Studio 6.1:

a. Download and install Camtasia Studio on your local computer.

b. Open the program, and select Record PowerPoint in the Task List. MS PowerPoint prompts up.

c. Open the PowerPoint presentation to record. Set the recording options from the PowerPoint Add-in Toolbar.

d. Then click the red Record button to enter the presentation.

e. Press Click to begin recording button. When finish recording, specify a name and location and save as *.camrec file.

f. Continue to edit the recording. Select the slide size, arrange the transitions, add effects, or edit audios.

g. Produce a video in a sharable format (WMV, MOV, AVI…)

3. Adobe Captivate

Another hot video capture app for creating PowerPoint video is Adobe Captivate. Take Adobe Captive 4 for example.

Convert PowerPoint to Video with Adobe Captivate 4

I. Download and install Adobe Captivate 4 on your computer. Open the program, in the main interface, click From MS PowerPoint in the Create Project tab to select a PowerPoint file to convert.

II. Customize the new PowerPoint project by adding an audio file, redefine a slide timeline, set video quality, etc. Click OK to start converting the file to SWF.

III. Edit the slides in the left Slide Tasks panel. Once ready, click the Publish ribbon to enter the Publish interface. In the prompt up, select Media, set the media type as "Video (*. avi)" and type a title for the video project.

IV. The SWF to AVI conversion starts. Finally, you will get an AVI video based on your presentation.

Cons: Adobe Captive 4 converts a PowerPoint presentation to AVI only. If you want to convert it to other video formats, it won’t help.

4. Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker is free for Windows XP or Vista users. It lets you create a home movie out of texts and images.

Convert PowerPoint to Video with Windows Movie Maker

To make a video from PowerPoint, you need to save all the slides in your presentation as like *.jpg or *.png.

a. Go to Office (in PowerPoint 2007) or File (in PowerPoint 97-2003) - Save As - Other Formats, in the popup Save As box, select the type to either of the above graphical formats.

b. Then choose to export every slide as the specified picture format.

c. A folder containing the exported slides with the same name of the original presentation is generated. Open Windows Movie Maker, and import the separate slides to collections one by one.

d. After that, drag all the imported slide images and drop to Storyboard. If you wish, right click a slide image to add video effects for it.

e. Finally, go back to the File menu, and save the slide collection as movie file.

Cons - all the dynamic effects (like audio or video clips) in the original presentation are lost in the generated movie.

5. Microsoft Photo Story 3

Microsoft Photo Story 3 is only free available for Windows XP users. If you are a qualified user for this, then download and install Photo Story 3 for Windows on your PC.

Convert PowerPoint to Video with Microsoft Photo Story 3

Similar to that in Windows Movie Maker, you have to save each single slide to *.jpg or *.png for Photo Story 3. Then import the pictures to the program, edit it by adding a title, an effect, a narration, or background music for output video.

Once it is ready, proceed to the output type. It will be generated to a video in WMV. You can save the WMV file for playback on your computer, in Email, or for playback on a pocket PC or a Smartphone with Windows Media Player 10 Mobile.

Cons - Again, all the animated elements including audios, movie clips and transitions in the source PowerPoint presentation won’t appear in the WMV file.

6. Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

One of the most significant features in the upcoming PowerPoint 2010 is Save As Video. That is, you can build a project in PowerPoint 2010 and save it as WMV without a third-party converter.

Convert PowerPoint to Video with PowerPoint 2010 Beta

To convert your PowerPoint 2010 presentation to Video, perform the following steps:

a. Go to your PowerPoint 2010 presentation.

b. Select Office button > Share option > Create a video.

c. Set an effect for output video. Under create a video, set the output quality and the transition time between slides.

d. Click Create Video button.

You will get a video with a file extension of .wmv.

Cons: PowerPoint 2010 supports only WMV as output video format. If you want to convert a PowerPoint presentation to web-friendly FLV, MP4, it won’t work.

7. QuickTime movie for Mac PowerPoint

For Mac PowerPoint users, there is a Make Movie (QuickTime Movie) feature.

Convert PowerPoint to Video with Mac PowerPoint

Actually, the movie is a slide show that can run on any application that supports QuickTime movies. Also, note that transitions in the original presentation may play differently in the QuickTime movie, and that animations will be completely missing in the movie. You’d better re-save it with QuickTime Pro.

From PowerPoint to video, your presentation has become more accessible on Internet and on the go with such a wide selection of convenient software applications. Easy job, enjoy it!

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