How to Convert Articles Into Videos

When you use screen cap­ture soft­ware for rapid video creation and record Cam­ta­sia videos with Power­Points or Mind­Maps, the pre­sen­ta­tion pro­cess beco­mes super simple.

A video pre­sen­ta­tion redu­ces the rea­ding time of a blog post from 5 to 10 minu­tes, to three minu­tes or less. That means you get a wider audience, more com­ments and more exposure.

To get more mileage out of an article, con­vert into a video using this very easy method that requi­res less than one minute of pre­pa­ra­tion per article. It relies on PowerPoint’s abi­lity to import text files.

In just a few seconds, you can take your article, apply a cou­ple of sim­ple search-​​and-​​replace actions, import the indi­vi­dual sen­ten­ces as indi­vi­dual sli­des, record, and dic­tate. Here’s the exact procedure:

Step 1: Copy and paste your article (INCLUDING the title on the first line) into a text edi­tor like EditPlus that allows for a multi-​​line search and replace.

Also copy your article title as the LAST line of the article so peo­ple will remem­ber what you just told them.

Step 2: Search and replace the end of each sen­tence to force a new line so that every sen­tence appears on its own line. Replace “.” (a period) with a period, and a newline.

In Edit­Plus, go to Search -> Replace, then click the “More” but­ton to show the multi-​​line search and replace boxes. In the “search” box, type that period. In the “replace” box at the bot­tom, you can simply type a period, hit Enter, and it will add the new­line for you.

Now you should have an article where every sen­tence is on its own line.

Step 3: Save this list of sen­ten­ces as a text file. Then open Power­Point and choose File -> Open. You won’t see the file you need at first.

Go to the drop­down that says “All Power­Point Pre­sen­ta­tions” and change it to “All Out­li­nes.” Browse to the fol­der con­tai­ning the text file you saved, and dou­ble click it. This will set each sen­tence as one slide.

Step 4: Select all sli­des by hit­ting Ctrl+A, right click and change the slide layout to “Title Slide.”

Want to change the layout of the sli­des easily? Go to View -> Slide Mas­ter to change the appea­rance of all the sli­des in that pre­sen­ta­tion. Then click “Close Mas­ter View” to switch back to the presentation.

If you want to knock out a bunch of article videos at a time, simply place seven of your artic­les (with each article title at the begin­ning and end) in one big text file.

Start the Power­Point pre­sen­ta­tion, record your pre­sen­ta­tion in Cam­ta­sia. Stop, save, and start a new pre­sen­ta­tion once you’ve reached the end of the article.

Don’t have the article writ­ten? That’s no pro­blem, just use my mindmap technique to create the pre­sen­ta­tion. But if you only want to con­vert a text article into a Cam­ta­sia video, this is the fas­test way to do it.

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