Greg, thanks for the feedback. The "Trial Version" of "Presentersoft PowerVideoMaker" that I used actually worked pretty well for me and seemed to play well for me on the TV, without the jerky motion you mentioned. The only problem I had with it was that both the MPEG file and the resultant DVD had a flashing notice on the bottom right corner of the video that it was "created with an unlicensed version of PowerVideoMaker". Since I will only be converting one Powerpoint file and and will probably never use the program again, it doesn't make sense to buy the licensed version of PowerVideoMaker. I was hpoing to find some freeware that worked as well as PowerVideoMaker.