sound changes during preview to slide show & can't remove spkr ico

[Guest]

I am so upset...I am on the verge of tears. I have two BIG problems. I have
been creating a graduation pp presentation for my daughter. It has 17
slides, but each slide is layed with images and it's own music.

1. when I view the presentation from the custom animation "play" button, I
have the timing set and everything is good. When I view the slide show, the
music is shifted and is either too short or too long. How do I fix this?

2. of the 17 slides, 3 of them have the speaker icon on during the
presentation. how do I get rid of them? The music was inserted with
automatic not manual. All the slides were created the same.

3. is there anyway for the music to overlap from one slide to the next by a
hair?

Bless you all for helping out this old, non-tech mom!

 

[Echo S]

Hi, Shelly. Comments inline.

I am so upset...I am on the verge of tears. I have two BIG problems. I have
been creating a graduation pp presentation for my daughter. It has 17
slides, but each slide is layed with images and it's own music.

1. when I view the presentation from the custom animation "play" button, I
have the timing set and everything is good. When I view the slide show, the
music is shifted and is either too short or too long. How do I fix this?

Uh oh. Timing like this is simply not PPT's strong suit.

http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/synchronizing.htm might
help.

Or if your presentation is just photos and music, consider using Windows
Movie Maker or Photo Story or something to create the presentation (well,
actually, you'd be creating a video file). Movie Maker is a free download
for Windoes XP.
http://www.microsoft.com/windo­wsxp/downloads/updates/moviema­ker2.mspx
(Version 2.1 is included as part of SP-2 for Windows XP.) (V. 2.0 seems to
be available here: http://www.download.com/3000-2­194-10165075.html ) Photo
Story is available here: http://tinyurl.com/4cato

2. of the 17 slides, 3 of them have the speaker icon on during the
presentation. how do I get rid of them? The music was inserted with
automatic not manual. All the slides were created the same.

You can just drag the sound icon off of the edge of the slide so it doesn't
show during the presentation.

3. is there anyway for the music to overlap from one slide to the next by a
hair?

No, PPT plays sound pretty much "as is." You'd have to use an audio editor
to edit the sound. Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ is often
recommended for this type of thing. If you decide to use Movie Maker,
though, you can overlap the audio in it.

Bless you all for helping out this old, non-tech mom!

Good luck with it.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am so upset...I am on the verge of tears.

I have two BIG problems. I have
been creating a graduation pp presentation for my daughter. It has 17
slides, but each slide is layed with images and it's own music.

1. when I view the presentation from the custom animation "play" button, I
have the timing set and everything is good. When I view the slide show, the
music is shifted and is either too short or too long. How do I fix this?

You'll have to allow a little extra time on the slide animations/transitions.
The music will always play at the correct speed/for the same amount of time but
the transitions won't always synch up the same. It's just a limitation we have
to live with in PPT, I'm afraid.

2. of the 17 slides, 3 of them have the speaker icon on during the
presentation. how do I get rid of them? The music was inserted with
automatic not manual. All the slides were created the same.

Drag the speaker icon off the slide area. The sound will still play but the
icon won't be visible when you go into slide show mode.

3. is there anyway for the music to overlap from one slide to the next by a
hair?

Only by editing the music files together and providing for the overlap in an
external audio editing program. And then you'll have even more trouble getting
the timing to stick for the whole length of the show. If you want to give it a
shot, Audacity is a wonderful (and free!) audio editing program. Google on its
name and ye shall find.

Oops! EXHALE! EXHALE!!!! ;-)

 

[Guest]

I just thought I'd offer some additional insight to this matter since I'm
currently putting together a similar slide show presentation with 3 different
songs for my parent's 50th Wedding Anniversary.

We've found the same problem when going to VIEW SLIDESHOW as opposed to the
PLAY preview offered for the individual slide in custom annimations. We've
determined that anytime we make changes to our slide show, we need to run the
VIEW SLIDESHOW through once all the way (even though it appears the music is
not synched correctly)...this allows Powerpoint to load all the changes, etc
into it's cache memory. Then after it has finished playing, run the VIEW
SLIDESHOW again and everything will be synched up the way you planned it. As
long as you don't make any more changes and don't close Powerpoint, you can
run it numerous times and it will be synched as planned. But just remember,
anytime you make changes or if you're just opening up the file for the first
time....you NEED to do the VIEW SLIDESHOW through once ALL THE WAY first to
let it load into it's memory.......THEN the second time through will be your
'money shot'!

We will be presenting ours on a large screen using a digital projector, so I
plan on running it completely through once before showing it. It's a quirky
thing but we've found this as a solution.

If you're showing it to family friends, etc...just remember to run through
it once in private (and remember not to close the file after either!) before
exhibiting it. If you're making copies for people...tell them to do the same
thing when they view it in order to get the best effect.

Hope this helps some...