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I have created a rather large presentation in Power Point 2000 (approximately 9.7MB) to include animations and background music throughout the show. My sound files consist of four .MP3 files linked to the slide presentation at key points, and one .wav file selected from within one of my slides. I have managed to synchronize my slides, their transitions and animations, to the music. I accomplished this by adjusting how long each slide is displayed ("Advance" panel of the "Slide Transition" option in "Custom Animation"). Between this adjustment and the settings in the "Multimedia" panel of the "Custom Animation" dialog box, I was able to have a particular song play during several slides and then die out as the appropriate slide dissolved. Between the four linked .mp3 sound files and the one .wav file I mentioned above, all of my slides have background music. Although I have worked extremely hard to accomplish this synchronization, the effort was well worth it. Or at least, it initially looked that way
The synchronization did turn what could have been a boring, one-dimensional slide presentation into what to me appears to be almost a professionally made commercial product. Of course, since I am the one who created this presentation, and I used songs written and performed by my son, anyone reading this could rightfully accuse me of bias. Never-the-less, without the synchronization that I worked hard to create, the show really suffers. Even a slight shift between the music and visuals seriously detracts from the show. This may not be obvious to someone who never saw the synchronized version, but if they did see it, they would have to agree that there is no comparison. Which brings me to my problem
My intent was to use this presentation as a marketing tool, to get it out to potential clients in various countries. The music is the heart and sole of this presentation and can't be omitted. Without going into great detail (I suppose its already too late for that), I have discovered many problems associated with transmitting large files, as well as certain restrictions within Power Point 2000 that restrict the use of certain files (you cannot input the smaller .mp3 file into the "Effects" panel of the "Custom Animation" dialog box). The only way I was able to have the music remain with the slide show on someone else's computer, was to link the .mp3 files (about 1/4 the size of equivalent .wav files), by "inserting" them into appropriate slides, and then uploading the .pps file and its associated sound files into an FTP site. My plan was for individuals to download a folder which contained everything they needed to view my show. Unfortunately, some folks may not have Power Point and some may not have the 2000 version
From what I have found, there seems to be some variation of how well this presentation plays on different Power Point versions, incliuding various PowerPiint viewers. For example, after burning a copy of my presentation to a CD, I found that a friend with Windows XP and a newer version of Power Point, and a neighbor with Windows 98 and the same PowerPoint version as mine, both had no problem viewing the show. I was present for only one of these tests and the problem I saw on the Windows 98 computer was the animations getting hung up due to avaialble resources and the large file size. This of course messed up the synchronization for several slides until the show became calibrated again when we came to a slide beginning a new song. The slight hesitations occurred several times, interfering with the synchronization in sevral places. I was told that my CD played fine on the XP system. Yet, when I took the CD to a local computer retailer, the technician could not open my .pps file on two different computers (formatting error). These computers had the most recent version of PowerPoint and I was told that this was the reason why my file couldn't open. In addition, my laptop, which has the same version of PowerPoint on Microsoft's ME operating system, also could not open my .pps file. A technician is currently checking out my motherboard to see if this is the cause of my problem
I am confused as to why the file on my CD does not universally open on different versions of PowerPoint. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on?
Furthermore, in trying to resove the problem of someone not having PowerPoint at all, I downloaded several PowerPoint viewers and checked each one out. None of them work well. One viewer (Viewer 2003) maintained the pre-set timing of my slides, along with my animations, but unfortunately didn't play the music. The other viewer (Viewer 97) plays the music okay, but inserts a several second time delay in the slide presentation and changed the color of the bullets. This delay is repeated at every slide having a linked sound file, thereby causing the entire slide show to be drastically out of synch with the music. I also downloaded and tried a viewer file named Pptview32.exe. This played the music out of synch with the slides. I then saved my presentation as a web page, and that produced still a different result. It plays the music and shows the first slide. That's it, only one slide.
Is there a viewer that will play all of my slides and all of my music at the same time, and in synchronization???
Why does my .ppt (or .pps) file not open on some computers? There are no alternate options I could have selected when burning my CD, except to slow the speed of the burn.
Why does the same .pps file on my CD play fine on a newer version of PowerPoint on one computer, but not on another computer having the same version of PowerPoint?
I'm totally confused, totally frustrtated, and ready to give up. Can anyone shed some light on my problem? Thanks.
The synchronization did turn what could have been a boring, one-dimensional slide presentation into what to me appears to be almost a professionally made commercial product. Of course, since I am the one who created this presentation, and I used songs written and performed by my son, anyone reading this could rightfully accuse me of bias. Never-the-less, without the synchronization that I worked hard to create, the show really suffers. Even a slight shift between the music and visuals seriously detracts from the show. This may not be obvious to someone who never saw the synchronized version, but if they did see it, they would have to agree that there is no comparison. Which brings me to my problem
My intent was to use this presentation as a marketing tool, to get it out to potential clients in various countries. The music is the heart and sole of this presentation and can't be omitted. Without going into great detail (I suppose its already too late for that), I have discovered many problems associated with transmitting large files, as well as certain restrictions within Power Point 2000 that restrict the use of certain files (you cannot input the smaller .mp3 file into the "Effects" panel of the "Custom Animation" dialog box). The only way I was able to have the music remain with the slide show on someone else's computer, was to link the .mp3 files (about 1/4 the size of equivalent .wav files), by "inserting" them into appropriate slides, and then uploading the .pps file and its associated sound files into an FTP site. My plan was for individuals to download a folder which contained everything they needed to view my show. Unfortunately, some folks may not have Power Point and some may not have the 2000 version
From what I have found, there seems to be some variation of how well this presentation plays on different Power Point versions, incliuding various PowerPiint viewers. For example, after burning a copy of my presentation to a CD, I found that a friend with Windows XP and a newer version of Power Point, and a neighbor with Windows 98 and the same PowerPoint version as mine, both had no problem viewing the show. I was present for only one of these tests and the problem I saw on the Windows 98 computer was the animations getting hung up due to avaialble resources and the large file size. This of course messed up the synchronization for several slides until the show became calibrated again when we came to a slide beginning a new song. The slight hesitations occurred several times, interfering with the synchronization in sevral places. I was told that my CD played fine on the XP system. Yet, when I took the CD to a local computer retailer, the technician could not open my .pps file on two different computers (formatting error). These computers had the most recent version of PowerPoint and I was told that this was the reason why my file couldn't open. In addition, my laptop, which has the same version of PowerPoint on Microsoft's ME operating system, also could not open my .pps file. A technician is currently checking out my motherboard to see if this is the cause of my problem
I am confused as to why the file on my CD does not universally open on different versions of PowerPoint. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on?
Furthermore, in trying to resove the problem of someone not having PowerPoint at all, I downloaded several PowerPoint viewers and checked each one out. None of them work well. One viewer (Viewer 2003) maintained the pre-set timing of my slides, along with my animations, but unfortunately didn't play the music. The other viewer (Viewer 97) plays the music okay, but inserts a several second time delay in the slide presentation and changed the color of the bullets. This delay is repeated at every slide having a linked sound file, thereby causing the entire slide show to be drastically out of synch with the music. I also downloaded and tried a viewer file named Pptview32.exe. This played the music out of synch with the slides. I then saved my presentation as a web page, and that produced still a different result. It plays the music and shows the first slide. That's it, only one slide.
Is there a viewer that will play all of my slides and all of my music at the same time, and in synchronization???
Why does my .ppt (or .pps) file not open on some computers? There are no alternate options I could have selected when burning my CD, except to slow the speed of the burn.
Why does the same .pps file on my CD play fine on a newer version of PowerPoint on one computer, but not on another computer having the same version of PowerPoint?
I'm totally confused, totally frustrtated, and ready to give up. Can anyone shed some light on my problem? Thanks.
