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Hello all! Today’s 15-minute review is FlashSpring Pro – version 2.0.1 by CPS Labs—a Powerpoint to PowerPoint to Flash conversion plug-in for PowerPoint.

As since I could not make this work with PowerPoint 2007 (Read: No support for PowerPoint 2007, even being a new version,) I will only be writing my comments on this application.

As Giveaway of the Day states:

“FlashSpring Pro 2.0 is an amazing PowerPoint add-in for easy, fast and high quality conversion of PowerPoint presentations into Flash format. With FlashSpring you can make your bulky PowerPoint presentations compact, accessible and easily distributable through the Web or E-mail.

FlashSpring Pro 2.0 supports 180+ PowerPoint animation effects, all slide transitions and perfectly converts audio, video and Flash files of your presentation.

Now students and teachers can easily create high quality and web-friendly e-learning content for their study and work. Thanks to FlashSpring Pro 2.0 any PowerPoint user can be a creator of web-ready Flash banners and presentations for efficient marketing campaigns on the Internet.

Quick Information

I tried to use this this morning, but unfortunately unlike the last PowerPoint to Flash converter I used, the integration into PowerPoint 2007 does not work. It places itself into PowerPoint, but won’t work at all. Come up with a critical error that can not be overcome. Granted, Giveaway of the Day states it only works with PowerPoint 2003, I felt that with a price tag this large, it would have better support. With being a brand-new version, I would have thought support for 2007 would have been included. I looked around their website, and it is a good thing they provide a demo and hope people use it before buying it only to be shocked that this application does not support 2007 at all and having coughed up $199 for nothing. Their website does not state any version requirements, at least visible before you would purchase, other than mentioning it supports 2003 transitions. They do state ‘Free upgrade to 2.1’, but they do not describe 2.1 or any features it may have. A little more disturbing is the fact that this application is $199, and you only get an upgrade through 1 minor revision?

Final Verdict

If you have PowerPoint 2007, don’t even bother. It doesn’t work at all, even with files made with PowerPoint 2003. As for those with 2003, try it while it is free, because I know many can’t afford to or don’t want to dish out $199 for this application. I can’t say anything about whether it works or not, but with freeware and much more affordable alternatives on the market, this application would have to be awe-inspiring and work flawlessly. Even for professionals, $199 might be a lot to chew on for sure for something that would probably be usually used for something used sparingly for websites. There is even a $2400 server version for batch-conversion as well that I can only see being used by institutions and massive companies with internal needs.