Make a video slide show of your seminar, and you create
additional income streams selling it on CDs or DVDs at your
speeches and other seminars and selling it over the web
either on CDs and DVDs or for download.

It's both simple and cheap to create a video slide show of
your seminar. Here's a recipe:

Ingredients:

An audio recording of your seminar.

Your slides for the seminar.

A digital photograph of you looking into the camera.

"Utensils":

A slide presentation program such as Open Office (Star
Office) Impress or Microsoft Powerpoint.

A video editing program such as Windows Movie Maker.

A computer with enough speed and disk memory.

Preparation:

Create a slide background for your presentation that
includes your picture in a corner. Seeing your face will
make viewing the show feel more like being present for a
live presentation.

If you expect people to watch the video over the internet
and you have slides with a great many bullet points or a
small font size split the slides up to have fewer bullet
points. Use a larger font on each. You will probably need
to make the window size smaller to allow the video file to
download quickly, and small text will be unreadable. If you
have slide animation such as bullet points sliding in, you
may need to create copies of the slide with increasing many
points showing on each one. The effects won't appear in the
sequences of slide images you load into the video editor.

Get an image file for each slide. Saving the slides as HTML
will give you a picture of each slide. (In Open
Office/Star Office, look under File>Export. )

Load the audio recording into your video editing program.

Drag the audio recording into the sound track. Edit the
audio file adjusting the volume and removing periods of
silence and extraneous material. You can do this, perhaps
better, in an audio editing program before loading it into
your video editing program.

Drag the slide pictures into your video editing program.

Drag one slide image at a time into the video track and
adjust the duration to match the audio it covers. If you
want to have a transition such as a dissolve from one slide
to the next, make the first slide last a little past the
point of transition. The next slide will start to appear
overlapped with the end of its predecessor.

Write out the video slide show file. You'll have a lot of
choices for output format. If you plan to have people view
the videos over the web, you better go for small files,
which is to say, small image size. For a DVD, you can make
them considerably larger.

Put the video slide show file up on your web site for
download or viewing, or make DVDs or digital CDs from the
file. There are plenty of companies that will duplicate
disks, label them, put them in cases with cover and side
art, and shrink-wrap them for you.