Timings...

[Lauri]

I'm making a slideshow presentation for my brother's
wedding. It has a lot of pictures (.jpg) inserted and a
music CD file inserted to play throughout the presentation
(5 songs). I have no slide transition between the slides,
but I have inserted transition for the pictures with
timings. Every time I open this presentation and watch
it, the timings are all off...even after I correct it, the
next time I open it the timings are off again. This is
very frustrating to me, as I have to show this in one
week. I'm using windows 98SE and Office2000, could this
be the problem?? Please help as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Lauri

 

[Austin Myers]

Lauri,

What do you mean by the timing is "off"? Are you tying to show a specific
picture tied to a specific spot in the music? If so, it won't work, at
least not accruately. Tis the nature of PPT. With that said, if you run
the presentation through a couple of times, (without shuting it down or
editiing it.) it usually settles down.

Austin Myers

 

[Tom]

In addition to what Austin said...defrag the hard drive
whether it seems to need it or not and turn off all other
programs running in the background such as anti virus
software. Good luck!

 

[Lauri]

Sort of. For instance I have a song for each section of
the show (5 songs all together). I'm just trying to get
the songs to end at the right time, if it doesn't it
throws the whole presentation off. Does this make sense?

 

[Austin Myers]

Makes perfect sense. The answer is you can't. Well, you can't do it with a
high degree of accuracy. The solution is to build your presentation in such
a way that it provides a few seconds lee way one way or the other.

There is an alternative, you could use Microsoft Producer to do this. You
would remove ALL audio files from the presentation, save it, and then import
it into Producer. Producer will then allow you to insert the audio files
and set the timing very accurately. (Producer is a free download from MS)

You would then use Internet Explorer to show the producer file.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[Lauri]

Great. Thank you. I will have to try Producer and see if
that helps!

 

[Echo S]

If you have Windows XP, Movie Maker (free download from MS) would be a
good option for this as well.