my boss would fire me! Could it be a problem within the program??? BJMichael Koerner said:Don't make one narration to cover an entire presentation.It is best to
record your narrations for each slide. It is better to do this outside of
PowerPoint and then insert the narration into each slide as required
--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint
When I record narration to my slide show and click to advance the slide, it
cuts out 2 seconds of the narration with every slide advance. Can somebody
help me?? BJ
Thanks for the suggestion, but this is a 90 minute taped narration which was recorded by a WW1 veteran in 1969 and I am putting slides and music to it. It is to go into a museum and used as an "interactive" program. I am planning to make 20 separate segments of about 10 to 15 slides per segment and wanted it to be a nice smooth presentation. I want a table of contents with the names of each segment and have the program go back to the table of contents at the end of each segment so that a person could then pick the next segment he wanted to look at. There is no way that I can break it up by slide/picture as there will be at least 200 slides as well as the way he talks on the tape and I am putting music to the first 3 slides and I can't break up the song. I was told that Powerpoint could do this and I was on the line with MS Office techs for 2 hours each of two days and they couldn't come up with any answer. If I made a presentation that way, with glitches in it like that ,
my boss would fire me! Could it be a problem within the program??? BJMichael Koerner said:Don't make one narration to cover an entire presentation.It is best to
record your narrations for each slide. It is better to do this outside of
PowerPoint and then insert the narration into each slide as required
--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint
When I record narration to my slide show and click to advance the slide,
it
cuts out 2 seconds of the narration with every slide advance. Can
somebody
help me?? BJ
Thanks for the suggestion, but this is a 90 minute taped narration which
was recorded by a WW1 veteran in 1969 and I am putting slides and music to
it. It is to go into a museum and used as an "interactive" program. I am
planning to make 20 separate segments of about 10 to 15 slides per segment
and wanted it to be a nice smooth presentation. I want a table of contents
with the names of each segment and have the program go back to the table of
contents at the end of each segment so that a person could then pick the
next segment he wanted to look at. There is no way that I can break it up
by slide/picture as there will be at least 200 slides as well as the way he
talks on the tape and I am putting music to the first 3 slides and I can't
break up the song. I was told that Powerpoint could do this and I was on
the line with MS Office techs for 2 hours each of two days and they
couldn't come up with any answer. If I made a presentation that way, with
glitches in it like that ,
Michael Koerner said:Originally you said it was a voice narration that you recorded, now your
saying it is a song which is it? You may want to break you presentation into
the different segments, and link back to a table of contents. check out the
linking tutorial found here.
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm
--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint
my boss would fire me! Could it be a problem within the program??? BJ
Hi again, the first 3 slides are titles and credits and so I have a WW 1 song playing while they read these 3 slides. Then it goes into the tape of him talking.
Steve Rindsberg said:It's a known bug. Try waiting a bit before advancing the slides. Yep, I know ... NOT the
answer you wanted. You might also try linking the sounds as you record narration. Then go
back and play the sound files PPT creates. If they're not cut off, you could adjust the
transition timings on the slides to fix the problem.
At root, PowerPoint just isn't good at synchronizing slide changes to sound. Even if you get
it perfect on your own PC, it may vary on others.
One thing you could try is creating your segments as movies; export the slides from PPT as
JPGs or PNGs then use Movie Maker to create a movie on top of your soundtrack bed. The movie
will maintain synch. You could then launch movie segments from within your main PPT show.
I'd certainly TEST this on a small scale, start to finish, before spending a lot of time on
it.
a WW1 veteran in 1969 and I am putting slides and music to it. It is to go into a museum and
used as an "interactive" program. I am planning to make 20 separate segments of about 10 to
15 slides per segment and wanted it to be a nice smooth presentation. I want a table of
contents with the names of each segment and have the program go back to the table of contents
at the end of each segment so that a person could then pick the next segment he wanted to
look at. There is no way that I can break it up by slide/picture as there will be at least
200 slides as well as the way he talks on the tape and I am putting music to the first 3
slides and I can't break up the song. I was told that Powerpoint could do this and I was on
the line with MS Office techs for 2 hours each of two days and they couldn't come up with any
answer. If I made a presentation that way, with glitches in it like that ,
-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Oh Man!! You are sooooo right that it isn't the answer I wanted to hear!! Darn it - a known bug!! Phooey!! I'm not good enough to do all that you are telling me to do! I'm a novice and feel that I was lucky to get this far in Powerpoint!! I have been calling around to see if there is any other program that would do it for me and someone said Pinnacle Studio Ultimate would do everything I wanted. Have you heard of it?? Maybe I could get lucky there. I'm going to return this one and try that. What do you think?? Thanks, BJ
Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[ said:I frequently do that: I use to record narration on an other soft (Audacity)
while the slideshow is running in a small window (Click on the slideshow
icon with Ctrl). In Audacity you can have 16 sound tracks you can mix.
Then I insert the final mix on the [first] slide. Guaranty you won't have
any problem with that!
Hi Jean-Pierre, I think I understand what you are suggesting, but my problem is that the audio, except for the first 3 slides, was recorded in 1969 and I can't change any of that. I just tried to insert a slide at each point of the existing audio where it would match what he was saying and Powerpoint dubbed out 2 seconds of the audio when I clicked the "next slide" button. Each slide is shown for a different number of seconds (ie slide 5 shows for 20 seconds, slide 6 shows for 35 seconds, slide 7 shows for 8 seconds, etc.) to match the existing audio tape. I just want to play the tape into the microphone and add a slide at different places. I thought this would be an easy task, but ,,,,,, I know slide shows like this are done at parties, so surely there is some program that I can use - maybe just not Powerpoint. Thanks so much for your suggestion, but I'm not good enough to do all of this. I just want a simple program. Oh well..........BJ
BJ said:Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[ said:I frequently do that: I use to record narration on an other soft
(Audacity)
while the slideshow is running in a small window (Click on the slideshow
icon with Ctrl). In Audacity you can have 16 sound tracks you can mix.
Then I insert the final mix on the [first] slide. Guaranty you won't have
any problem with that!
BJ said::
When I record narration to my slide show and click to advance the
slide, it
cuts out 2 seconds of the narration with every slide advance. Can
somebody
help me??
It's a known bug. Try waiting a bit before advancing the slides.
Yep, I
know ... NOT the
answer you wanted. You might also try linking the sounds as you
record
narration. Then go
back and play the sound files PPT creates. If they're not cut off,
you
could adjust the
transition timings on the slides to fix the problem.
At root, PowerPoint just isn't good at synchronizing slide changes to
sound. Even if you get
it perfect on your own PC, it may vary on others.
One thing you could try is creating your segments as movies; export
the
slides from PPT as
JPGs or PNGs then use Movie Maker to create a movie on top of your
soundtrack bed. The movie
will maintain synch. You could then launch movie segments from within
your main PPT show.
I'd certainly TEST this on a small scale, start to finish, before
spending a lot of time on
it.
Thanks for the suggestion, but this is a 90 minute taped narration
which was recorded by
a WW1 veteran in 1969 and I am putting slides and music to it. It is
to
go into a museum and
used as an "interactive" program. I am planning to make 20 separate
segments of about 10 to
15 slides per segment and wanted it to be a nice smooth presentation.
I
want a table of
contents with the names of each segment and have the program go back
to
the table of contents
at the end of each segment so that a person could then pick the next
segment he wanted to
look at. There is no way that I can break it up by slide/picture as
there will be at least
200 slides as well as the way he talks on the tape and I am putting
music
to the first 3
slides and I can't break up the song. I was told that Powerpoint
could
do this and I was on
the line with MS Office techs for 2 hours each of two days and they
couldn't come up with any
answer. If I made a presentation that way, with glitches in it like
that
,
my boss would fire me! Could it be a problem within the program???
BJ
-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Oh Man!! You are sooooo right that it isn't the answer I wanted to
hear!! Darn it - a known bug!! Phooey!! I'm not good enough to do
all
that you are telling me to do! I'm a novice and feel that I was lucky
to
get this far in Powerpoint!! I have been calling around to see if
there
is any other program that would do it for me and someone said Pinnacle
Studio Ultimate would do everything I wanted. Have you heard of it??
Maybe I could get lucky there. I'm going to return this one and try
that. What do you think?? Thanks, BJ
Hi Jean-Pierre, I think I understand what you are suggesting, but my
problem is that the audio, except for the first 3 slides, was recorded in
1969 and I can't change any of that. I just tried to insert a slide at
each point of the existing audio where it would match what he was saying
and Powerpoint dubbed out 2 seconds of the audio when I clicked the "next
slide" button. Each slide is shown for a different number of seconds (ie
slide 5 shows for 20 seconds, slide 6 shows for 35 seconds, slide 7 shows
for 8 seconds, etc.) to match the existing audio tape. I just want to
play the tape into the microphone and add a slide at different places. I
thought this would be an easy task, but ,,,,,, I know slide shows like
this are done at parties, so surely there is some program that I can use -
maybe just not Powerpoint. Thanks so much for your suggestion, but I'm
not good enough to do all of this. I just want a simple program. Oh
well..........BJ
Hello to everyone who tried to help me. I went back to MS Office technicalno-spam-for-hkjffekafphdkdoemehepegkppbo said:Can I ask: is your sound file part of a Slide Transition, or part of a
Custom Animation?
Brian.
Hello to everyone who tried to help me. I went back to MS Office technicalno-spam-for-hkjffekafphdkdoemehepegkppbo said:Can I ask: is your sound file part of a Slide Transition, or part of a
Custom Animation?
Brian.
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