Music under voice

[lescow]

How do we lower the music level across multiple slides to
keep it in the background without dominating?

We are using Powerpoint 2003. We have recorded a
narration per slide. Our opening slide has music in the
form of a .wav file. We have worked out how to do the
transition so that the music plays under the narration
for each subsequent slide. However the music level
dominates the voice narration. We selected each slide
and went into Sounde Effects. We lowered the music level
to its lowest. Each narration we elevated to the
highest. However when we play the show we still get the
music dominating the voice.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003 provide volume control for only some
audio formats, even though the volume setting is visible in the dialog
regardless of the audio format that you have inserted into PowerPoint.

The sound volume setting is ignored for sound files which get their volume
control from the System volume settings. These include: CD Audio, .wav,
mid, midi, mp2, mp3, mpa and rmi

The sound volume setting works for other sound files including: aif, aiff,
aifc, .au, m3u, snd and wma. So the workarounds include:

* Convert you sound files to one of the formats where the volume can be
controlled in PowerPoint, or
* Edit the sounds outside of PowerPoint (changing their volume) before
insertinng them into PowerPoint.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it is important to
have improved support for controlling and/or normalizing the audio volume
in PowerPoint (without have to resort to an add-in or VBA), don't forget to
send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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