Playing PPT from a given slide

[sasha gottfried]

How do we play a ppt from a given slide within the show onward.......WITH
AUDIO? I'm only able to get the audio to play with the slides if I start
from the first slide.... where the audio icon is.

MT

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hi Sasha,

The problem is that PowerPoint does not play the audio, it simply hands it
off to the operating system to play. Therefore there is no sync or sync
points to any specific slide, except the one that starts it. If there is a
place where you might want to start the music, other than the first one, you
will need to create a new sound file that has been trimmed to start where
the other one would be and start it manually when beginning at this slide.

I should also toss out this warning, because my crystal ball tells me that
you are trying to create a tight sync'd "music video"-like presentation.
Sound/slide sync does not hold between machines or even runs within the same
machine. You would be far better off if creating this type of presentation
using something like movie maker (probably already on your computer) or a
third party video editor.

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Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
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[sasha gottfried]

Well........you're absolutely right....though not good news! Haven't seen
this problem develop yet though. What file does movie-maker save the
presentation? Are these files compatible with other systems?

Thanks,

MT

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Movie Maker makes movie files in WMV, AVI and a few other formats. These
movies can be inserted into a PowerPoint presentation after they are
completed. I know this sounds weird, but because they are a movie, they
will stay sync'd. You can also check out the free demo on PFC to make sure
the movies will play on other systems.
http://www.playsforcertain.com/



--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
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