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Hi, I have Powerpoint 2000 I think.
I have a presentation set up. It has very few simple animations. Mostly
appears.
It is my year-end presentation, and will have to be entirely automated since
I will not be there.
What I have done is used the "Record Narration" feature to record all my
audio. However, some slides are cut short. I.E. 60 second long slides with 60
seconds of audio, get advanced after only 20 seconds or so. This is not how I
timed it when I went through the narration, but that's what it does anyway.
So I tried manually setting up the audio, imported from the same links it
was recorded from when I recorded. Then I used the "Rehearse Timings" feature
to time the presentation. However, when played, timings were all off. Bullets
were appearing 20 seconds late, on a slide not much longer than 20 seconds
long.
I also tried rehearsing timings after recording narrations, but what I found
was that the internal timings (bullets inside a text box, etc) and other
timings, would not be changed. It seems whatever timings I used when I last
recorded narration, were locked in and unchangable.
No combination seemed to work.
To avoid the slide-shortening, I placed a text box outside the slide on each
slide, then clicked twice to end each slide, while recording narration. That
prevented slides from ending sooner than they should have. The internal
timings are also good as long as I did it right on the first try when
recording. However, timings between slides is now off. When slides finish,
they will sit there for up to a minute.
I suspected it was doubling my timings for duration, for some reason, so I
tried editing my slide transition times (since editing them had no effect on
lengthening times earlier) to zero, in case it was adding that time onto the
recorded one, but, no effect.
I'm thinking this must be a bug in PP 2000, because it completely ignores
rehearsal timings. Bug or not, is there a way to do what I want?
Also, is there any way to edit the internal timings of a slide? I.E. Bullets
inside the same text box? The only two ways I can find are recording and
rehearsing, and, as above, neither work. I suppose I could hard-code
everything and have every comment in it's own text box, but, that would be a
last ditch resort.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
I have a presentation set up. It has very few simple animations. Mostly
appears.
It is my year-end presentation, and will have to be entirely automated since
I will not be there.
What I have done is used the "Record Narration" feature to record all my
audio. However, some slides are cut short. I.E. 60 second long slides with 60
seconds of audio, get advanced after only 20 seconds or so. This is not how I
timed it when I went through the narration, but that's what it does anyway.
So I tried manually setting up the audio, imported from the same links it
was recorded from when I recorded. Then I used the "Rehearse Timings" feature
to time the presentation. However, when played, timings were all off. Bullets
were appearing 20 seconds late, on a slide not much longer than 20 seconds
long.
I also tried rehearsing timings after recording narrations, but what I found
was that the internal timings (bullets inside a text box, etc) and other
timings, would not be changed. It seems whatever timings I used when I last
recorded narration, were locked in and unchangable.
No combination seemed to work.
To avoid the slide-shortening, I placed a text box outside the slide on each
slide, then clicked twice to end each slide, while recording narration. That
prevented slides from ending sooner than they should have. The internal
timings are also good as long as I did it right on the first try when
recording. However, timings between slides is now off. When slides finish,
they will sit there for up to a minute.
I suspected it was doubling my timings for duration, for some reason, so I
tried editing my slide transition times (since editing them had no effect on
lengthening times earlier) to zero, in case it was adding that time onto the
recorded one, but, no effect.
I'm thinking this must be a bug in PP 2000, because it completely ignores
rehearsal timings. Bug or not, is there a way to do what I want?
Also, is there any way to edit the internal timings of a slide? I.E. Bullets
inside the same text box? The only two ways I can find are recording and
rehearsing, and, as above, neither work. I suppose I could hard-code
everything and have every comment in it's own text box, but, that would be a
last ditch resort.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.