Your opinion wanted: best way to record narration

[Betzi]

Hi all,

I've agreed to help someone record an audio narration for her
PowerPoint presentation. This presentation will not need to go on the
web -- the presenter will be out of town on the day of the
presentation, and the slides/narration will be presented to a live
audience.

I have three ways to do such a thing (at least I have three things at
my disposal - I'm not interested in buying another product), and
having never added a narration to PowerPoint, I thought I'd ask for
everyone's opinion. Should I:

1. Just use the record narration feature in PowerPoint. (I have the
OfficeXP version).

2. Use RoboPresenter -- I know that Macromedia just bought this
product and now calls it Breeze, but I have the older version of
RoboPresenter.

3. Use Microsoft Producer.

If any of you have any thoughts, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Betzi

 

[Michael Koerner]

Throw out #1. Recording in PowerPoint really sucks. If your interested, visit
http://www.oldfco.ca/tutorial/pptohtml.html The voice over in this presentation
were done with a microphone and the software that came with my SoundBlaster
sound card.

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Hi all,

I've agreed to help someone record an audio narration for her
PowerPoint presentation. This presentation will not need to go on the
web -- the presenter will be out of town on the day of the
presentation, and the slides/narration will be presented to a live
audience.

I have three ways to do such a thing (at least I have three things at
my disposal - I'm not interested in buying another product), and
having never added a narration to PowerPoint, I thought I'd ask for
everyone's opinion. Should I:

1. Just use the record narration feature in PowerPoint. (I have the
OfficeXP version).

2. Use RoboPresenter -- I know that Macromedia just bought this
product and now calls it Breeze, but I have the older version of
RoboPresenter.

3. Use Microsoft Producer.

If any of you have any thoughts, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Betzi

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Throw out #1. Recording in PowerPoint really sucks. If your interested, visit
http://www.oldfco.ca/tutorial/pptohtml.html The voice over in this presentation
were done with a microphone and the software that came with my SoundBlaster
sound card.

I think I made this end run work once, though:

Record the narration in PPT and choose the LINK TO FILE option.
That gets the timings down and the wav sound files attached to the right slides
pretty easily.

Then re-record the narrations, one file per slide, saving as WAV files, same name
as the ones PPT made.

With a decent audio program (even free Audacity, I think) you could listen to the
sound you recorded in PPT while you re-record to a new track, then toss the
PPTmade track.

Since the files are linked, PPT will play back anything that's saved to the
linked file name.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

even free Audacity, I think
Yes it is free.

TAJ