LUCY THOMSON RE: Re Music in Presentations

[Robert Cheesbrough]

Hello, Lucy-



I'm hoping you see this, as my direct reply came back as "unable to find
host" for your email address twice.



Thanks for your assistance. At first, I had tried converting to WAV, but
the files were huge, beyond the 50mb limit. Then, in following some other
links in the one you suggested (A WAV Runs Through It), I found the program
CDEX (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/), a free program which
converts your MP3s to WAVs preserving the smaller file size of the MP3.
Works now, and this was the solution. Thanks so much for your assistance.
In addition, I added a black slide as the first slide, with a 1 second cross
fade animation and the music then began on my first presentation slide,
since it started after the end of the first animation, which was one of the
other problems preventing me from hearing the music.



Now, one other question, my plan is to set up a page with hyperlinks to the
presentations in Slide Show format (ppsx), and offer a free PPT Viewer 2007
download link for those that don't have 2007. Do you see any issues in this
approach, and will the browser, once the viewer is installed, open it full
screen? I am desiring to have the show go to auto play, ending in a static
slide that has hyperlinks back to the home page and links to the other
modules as well.



Enjoy your Sunday!

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Robert

A few things you should be aware of:
- The '2007' viewer isn't really a 2007 viewer at all, it is the 2003 viewer
with the compatibility pack. So it downsaves your 2007 file to 97-2003
format which can mess up animations (particularly of SmartArt)
- to see the effect using the viewer will have, save the presentation in the
97-2003 format yourself
- the 2007 viewer is huge, I would be tempted to link the 2003 viewer
instead
- test it in both viewers, preferably on a different computer
- there are issues with some MIME tables (?) on servers not knowing about
the new file formats so .ppsx sometimes downloads as a .zip
(http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00911.htm)
- my understanding is that how a browser opens a file depends on local
settings so you cannot control it. However, we're moving beyond my area of
expertise here, but fortunately not Steve's:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00189.htm
- don't forget that sometimes people don't want to download things just to
see something on your site (I suppose this depends on the nature of your
business & web traffic)
- I think this could be one of those situations that genuinely is fixed by
converting to flash....

I hope I've given you some pointers there. BTW, please do not reply to me
directly but to the group so that others can benefit from your experience
too

Lucy