timing slides with music and narration

[Russ]

A question for anyone who can help. IT seems that
everytime I time all the slides in a slideshow that the
next time I open the show the timing is slightly
different. This is frustrating because music and
narration timed to fade out(not just cut out)on a
specific slide is out of time and not on the correct
slide. I thought it could be because of using random
transitions that alternate by slide when opening a new
show. I know this happens as I have experiemented. For
example once slide 1 may be blinds in and the next time
it may be fly in from right etc. I changed to no
transition and dont know yet if it will help. If anyone
has experience with this please email and let me know.
thanks

 

[Sonia]

Maybe this will help:

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

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello Russ,

PowerPoint doesn't support the kind of timing/synchronization that you are
looking for. For media we can only synchronize the beginning of the sound
to another event. We can't control the beginning of other events based on
how many seconds of a media file has been played. The feature for this
degree of timing control is just not built into the product. This is mostly
because two completely different architectures are used. For multimedia
playback we use system API calls (PowerPoint has very little control over
what happens after the media has begun to play) while animations and
transitions are controlled using PowerPoint's built in procedures.

So, for example, if you want to sychronize animations and transitions with
something other than just the beginning of media playback (on same slide or
over multiple slides), you will get inconsistent results from system to
system or even on the same system (depending on what data is still cached
in virtual memory).

If some kind of more deterministic, system independent, multimedia
synchronization with animations and transitions is important to you (or
anyone else reading this message) for Microsoft to consider for some future
version of PowerPoint (or if it's not possible, perhaps features within
PowerPoint to help you avoid trying to sychronize something that we can't
guarantee will always be synchronized), don't forget to send your feedback
to Microsoft at:

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

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your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

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

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