Last updated on 2014-01-26, by Dupont

How to View PPS with QuickTime Player on Mac

PPS is just another default format in PowerPoint which is opened directly as slide show mode after double clicking. While in PPT format, you need to click F5 to view the PowerPoint presentation.

The benefits of saving PowerPoint as PPS format are:

1. Saving time

2. Good for formal presentation conference

3. Prevent from modification

This guide contains two parts:

1. Converting PPS to MOV video form viewing on Mac

2. Save PPS as PPT format for editing

Part I: Convert PPS to MOV

Load PowerPoint files.

Free download and install Leawo PPT to Video Converter on your computer. Click the Add button to import the PowerPoint files you want to convert to video. Batch conversion is available with no number limit.

Select output video format.

Click Profile and choose MOV as the output format. Because MOV is the default video format for Mac computers just like AVI and WMV for Windows computers. QuickTime Player is the default video player on Mac; it has the best support for MOV videos.

Advanced video settings.

Click Settings to adjust the video parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, video size, channel, etc. When the settings are done, you can click Save As and save the settings as a new profile for future use.

Convert.

Click Start to convert PPS to MOV and then you can view it using QuickTime Player on Mac.

Be default the PowerPoint is created in 4:3 aspect ratio, if it doesn’t match the output video size there will be black margin. So click Customize and uncheck Keep the aspect ratio of slides to stretch the slide and remove the black margin. Click As Default so you don’t need to set again in the future.

Part II: Save PPS as PPT

Some people say you can save PPS as PPT simply by changing the suffix .pps to .ppt. The truth is that it doesn’t always work. You don’t need a PPS to PPT converter; all you need is Microsoft PowerPoint program.

Open a blank PowerPoint presentation. Click File → Open to browse and open the PPS file. You will see that the PPS file has been opened just like normal PPT file, in the normal view mode. Now click File → Save As and change the output format as PPT.