mcp6453
Sat May 10 13:11:20 CDT 2008
Steve Rindsberg wrote:
> In article <us2grRgsIHA.3632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Mcp6453 wrote:
>> Today I sat through a PPT 2003 presentation during which there was
>> narration from start to finish. When the narrator said, "Let's look at
>> the next slide,", the next slide automagically appeared.
>>
>> I have read several web sites and the PPT help, but I am still not clear
>> how this presentation was created.
>
> Open a presentation then choose Slide Show, Record Narration from the main menu
> bar.
>
> All will be revealed.
>
>
>> My question is, does PPT treat
>> narration audio different from embedded or linked audio? The slides were
>> not equally spaced. The audio of slide one was a minute. The audio of
>> slide two was 30 seconds. The audio of slide three was two minutes.
>>
>> What I would like to do is to have a (wave) sound file play all through
>> the presentation, and have the slides change at pre-selected points
>> during the audio file, as above. I do not want to have to record the
>> narration in real time.
>
> That's a different animal.
>
> When you record narration, PPT records the audio and the times at which you
> change slides. Each slide gets its own audio file, whether embedded or linked.
>
>> I know how to add an audio file to each slide, but that's not what I
>> want to do. I just want to play the audio and manually trigger the
>> slides at the appropriate time and have PPT remember the timings. How do
>> I do that?
>
> You might try this:
>
> Record your audio track.
>
> Play it back as you record narration and advance slides to match the track.
>
> Go back and delete all the audio bits PPT has recorded.
> That should give you a show timed to the audio track, but no audio track.
>
> Then have a look here to bring back the audio track as one chunk that plays
> throughout:
>
> Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it)
>
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00047.htm
>
> If this works, pay it forward ... let us know, and tell us what glitches you
> ran into and solved. Thanks.
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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Okay, things are beginning to make sense. Even though I have many
questions, let me ask two in particular that will help me understand PPT
2003:
1) Is there a way to insert an audio file into a slide (either embedded
or linked) such that the slide transition is triggered by the end of the
audio file? (I understand how to use a sound file for a transition and
have the slide advance after the number of seconds that is slightly
longer than the length of the audio file.)
2) Once narration has been added to a slide show, how can that narration
be deleted? It is not showing up as a speaker icon. I understand how to
delete sound by deleting the speaker icon.
Thanks!