Package for CD losing transition timing

[Guest]

Hi there. I'm doing my first package for CD presentation. I've recorded a
narrative for each slide which matches the animation on the slides. The show
runs fine from my hard drive. However, when I run it from the CD (after
packaging), the narration is ahead of the animation. How can I troubleshoot
this? What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help - this is a GREAT resource
board.
Lori

 

[Michael Koerner]

Unfortunately, timings are not one of PowerPoint's strong suites. Bring into
the equation the different speeds of your HD vs. your CD drive and the
problem just compounds. Playing around with your presentation until you get
something that fits is about the best your going to get.

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| Hi there. I'm doing my first package for CD presentation. I've recorded a
| narrative for each slide which matches the animation on the slides. The
show
| runs fine from my hard drive. However, when I run it from the CD (after
| packaging), the narration is ahead of the animation. How can I
troubleshoot
| this? What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help - this is a GREAT
resource
| board.
| Lori

 

[Guest]

There will often be time lags caused by the time taken to load from CD. You
really need to put the files on the "target computer" (all in the same folder)

 

[Guest]

A second thought - did you embed the narration?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the speedy messages! You guys are incredible. Not sure if I
embedded the narration but I think I did that instead of linking it. What I
did was, under Slideshow, Record Narration, and OK. Does that embed it? I
think it does. I'm very disappointed that this slideshow on CD doesn't look
like what it does on the hard drive.

If I copy the folder to the CD, do I instruct everyone to copy the folder to
their hard drive? Is there a way to automatically have this happen instead of
having to tell them to do it?

 

[Guest]

Hi Lori,
You might also want to take a look at Sonia's article:
"Synchronizing Sound, Video, Animation, Etc"
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/synchronizing.htm
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[Guest]

Thanks. I was nosing around and found that article. Short of redoing the
entire presentation to allow more time for transitions (and then, it still
might not work - sigh...), I'm going to try the package to folder idea.

Now, I have another question - double sigh....

I'm not sure I fully understand what the package to folder does for me. Do I
instruct anyone using the CD to copy the folder to their hard drive? If yes,
is there a way to autorun the program after they copy it? If not (you still
with me??!), how do I tell them to run the presentation? I copied to folder,
put it on a cd, took it to my other computer, copied the entire folder to the
hard drive, opened powerpoint, opened the presentation, hit F5 to run and
it's not right! The transitions are gone! Poof! Nada! My voice is there but
the slide animation (simple stuff, like bullets coming in) is gone. What the
heck? Any additional help will save my sanity (what's left). Thanks all!

 

[Guest]

Windows XP allows you to write files into CD-R/RW directly, but other
versions such as Windows 98 does not allow you to do so. In this case, Copy
to Folder is used instead. Then, the packaged presentation will then be
burned into the CD-R/RW using a CD burning program. The purpose of Copy to
Folder is to allow users with earlier version of Windows to package their
presentation in HD first, then burn into the CD-R/RW using CD burning
program.
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[Guest]

John,
Once I put them on the target computer, then what? How do I play the
presentation? Clicking on the .ppt doesn't keep the animations. I'm missing
something here. Can you help further? Thanks. Lori