Why is my playback in slow motion when I'm publishing to video?
Presenter does "frame accurate" video publishing. If you specify that a slide will hold for 10 seconds, at 30 fps, Presenter renders and records exactly 300 frames of high quality video. It takes extra time to do that and write it all out. The playback you are seeing during video recording is going through all that as fast as your system allows. When you play the resulting video, it will play at the correct speed.
Why does my presentation just sit on slide 1 when I try to publish it to video?
Because you're not giving it any instructions on when to transition to the next slide. You can either do that manually by clicking like you would in a normal show, or by adding auto advance slide timings in PowerPoint.
How do I get precise timings for each slide in my output video?
The same way you set up a presentation in PowerPoint to play unattended. You use the Auto Advance slide timings that are available on the Slide Show / Slide Transitions panel in PowerPoint.
I have 5 minute slide presentation. When I publish to video it stops after 1 minute. What's up?
You are probably publishing "uncompressed". Presenter publishes to the AVI file format. There is a 2Gb file size limit for AVI files. Uncompressed AVI files get very large, very fast. A standard NTSC sized (640x480) video file will exceed 2Gb in size at just about one minute duration. For most video publishing scenarios you'll need to use a video codec (compressor / decompressor) of some sort to create smaller output files. We recommend using FFDShow with WMV, H.264, or MPEG-4 compression.
I have a long presentation and video publishing is not real time. Can video publishing proceed unattended?
Yes. First add the slide timings in PowerPoint as described above. Then set the file to "Loop". In PowerPoint and Presenter, that causes it to cycle back to the first slide and start over after it's played the last slide for the prescribed amount of time. When publishing to video, that Loop instruction is used to tell Presenter when to exit the publishing process. You'll see the "End on Loop" option in the video publishing panel. That's on by default. With slide timings and looping set, you can let video publishing run unattended.