Music Play-Through in Slideshows for PP2003 versus PP2000

[Richard B]

I create a slideshow of approximately 500-600 photos for the Awards
Ceremony at our Regional and State Odyssey of the Mind Competition. I
and my other photographers take digital photos for 6-7 hours in the
morning early afternoon of the kids competing and then I put together
a PP slideshow in 1-2 hours before the late afternoon Awards Ceremony.
The show is divided into 10 different sections with 10 title slides
which have different music associated with each section. With PP2000
for each section I would set the music to play for 99 slides (a number
greater than the number of slides in that section). When I got to a
new section, the old music would stop and the new music would play.
Great! This behavior was what I wanted. Now with new PP2003, when the
slideshow comes to a new section, the music from the previous section
continues to play through where I want a new change of music. With
PP2003 it plays for the exact number (99 slides for example)of slides
requested.

Does anyone know of a way to get PP2003 to behave like the old PP2000?

Unfortunately, I don't have time to count the exact number of slides
in each section when using PP2003. I love doing a slideshow like this
but it can be a bit stressful. There are 2-3 thousand kids and their
parents at the Awards Show. I need to use any trick in the book to get
it done on time and as entertaining as possible.

Also my old slideshows made in PP2000 exhibit the desirable music play
behavior when saved in PP2003. It's just that I can't change the
music. In the last regional slideshow I updated the title slides but
had to use the same music as last year. I just deleted the old
slideshow down to the ten title slides with music.

I'd appreciate any advice. My next slideshow for state finals is
April 24th. Thanks in advance.

Richard

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Richard B,

This works for me.

1) The music *has* to be a .wav file (no mp3s no midis!)
2) On the slide where you want the music to start
Slideshow menu
Slide transition
Where it reads "Sound: [No Sound]"...click the down triangle drop down thing.
Scroll all the way to the end of the list (why it's buried down here I do not know!)
Choose "Other sound"...
Navigate to your .wav file.
Click the sound file.
Click Ok
Tick "Loop until next sound"

You now have two choices for the slide where you want the next music to start/stop

IF you want the music to *stop* on slide 10
go to slide 10
Slideshow menu
Slide transition
Where it reads "Sound: [No Sound]"...click the down triangle drop down thing.
Change it to "Stop previous sound"

IF you want some *NEW* music to *start* on slide 10
go to slide 10
Slideshow menu
Slide transition
Where it reads "Sound: [No Sound]"...click the down triangle drop down thing.
Scroll all the way to the end of the list (why it's buried down here I do not know!)
Choose "Other sound"...
Navigate to your .wav file.
Click the sound file.
Click Ok
Tick "Loop until next sound".

That should sort it for you.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Richard B]

TAJ Simmons,

Thank you very much. Your answer was right on track. I was using
wave files but inserting them another way.

My newer computer a P4 2.4GHz with 1GB of RAM seems to handle the
photo slideshow data flow pretty well, but if you have any suggestions
I'd appreciate that also. I use a 1024 by 768 pixel resolution
projector and set PP to play the photos at one per sec. The computer
can't play them that fast, but they average 1.25 seconds each. The
digital photos come from four different cameras set at the lowest
resolution above 1024x768. I worry about the music stopping during
the slideshow like it did with my older P3 933MHz. So far so good
with the the newer P4.

Thanks again.

Richard B

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

It sounds that, although there are workarounds, you would like this to be a
lot easier to do in PowerPoint.

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