Udemy - How to Make Animated Videos in PowerPoint (2015)

Learn how to quickly and easily create promotional videos or animated explainer videos in Microsoft PowerPoint. Creating videos doesn't have to be difficult or expensive. Using a few little-known capabilities of Microsoft PowerPoint, you can start cranking out YouTube-ready videos to promote your business, to pitch your online course, or just for fun!

You'll learn how to:

Animate and automate text, images, and objects
Incorporate sound effects and background music
And, record voice-over narrations…all in PowerPoint!
Here's what a few of my favorite students had to say:

"[By] far one of the best courses on Udemy." - A. Pazeto
"I didn't know PowerPoint was this versatile and will absolutely use what I learned when I have to give a presentation again!" - R. Andel
“Evan really uncovered some great tips. Easy to follow. Beautifully presented. Thank you." - B. Gordon
“This is a solid course. It delivers on all promises made. Satisfied." - J. Smith
(These are quotes from four of the 45 five-star reviews this course has earned!)

A Clever Way to Create Awesome, Animated Videos

Modern, promotional videos are a great way to capture attention and endorse your business, product, or online course. Traditionally, producing an animated video required a fat wallet, specialized skills, and expensive equipment. Animated videos were great but not realistic for entrepreneurs, small business owners, or anyone on a tight deadline.

Being able to produce animated videos quickly, easily, and independently is a powerful and useful skill for anyone seeking to build or grow an online business or course. Learning how to do this in an easy-to-use program you likely already have is almost too good to be true. Almost.

Course Overview

Suitable for all PowerPoint users, this course is straightforward and to the point. Unlike many online courses, my lectures include no tangents, no spiraling, and no bloat. This course consists of 14 concise lectures, and in less than an hour you'll learn to make awesome, animated videos.

Starting with an empty PowerPoint template, this course will break down the steps required to prepare your presentation for high definition (HD) video creation. With these basics mastered, the course will teach you how to add, animate, and automate text, graphics, and objects.

The next stage will be audio, where you'll work with sound effects, background music, and voice-over narrations. Though all of these elements can be managed in PowerPoint, some people find it easier to pull them into a video-editing software. (Just to be safe, this course will teach both!)

The last step to the process is exporting your video—optimal settings and a few considerations before wrapping up your video.

Complete with project files and a free 15-slide video template, this course will fully prepare students who complete it with the skills and knowledge to start creating (and even selling) animated videos.

1 - Why Turn Our PowerPoint Presentations Into Videos
2 - The Method to My Video-Making Madness
3 - How to Prep PowerPoint for Making Videos
4 - The Basics of Animating Text and Objects
5 - Knowing What File Formats Work and Look Best
6 - How to Test Order and Time Your Animations
7 - How to Add Sound to Animations and Transitions
8 - How to Record Narrations for Your Slideshow
9 - How to Capture Your Mouse Pointer Movements
10 - How to Save Your Presentation as a Video
11 - The Video That We re Going to Make
12 - Part 1 - How to Animate the Hasty Bake Video
13 - Part 2 - How to Add Audio to the Hasty Bake Video
14 - An Awesome Video Template with Dozens of Fun Images