Advanced PowerPoint

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Advanced PowerPoint

• Adding Sound to a presentation
• Presented by
• David Stasch

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Spice up a PP presentation with sound and music

• We will learn how to
• Add sounds and music to PP
• Play a CD soundtrack throughout a PP presentation
  
• Record Narration to PP

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How sound is used in PP

• Record narration for self-running presentations
• Short sounds for with any presentation
• Continues music or soundtracks with self-running
  presentations

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Common sound formats

• .aif, aiff, aifc
• Audio Interchange File Format (aiff) developed
  by Apple, allowing for various sampling rates,
  sample size and number of channels. An .aifc
  file is an .aiff but compressed.

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Common sound formats

• .mid, .midi, .rmi,
• Musical Instrument Digital Interface (midi),
  primarily for musical instruments.

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Common sound formats

• mp3
• Moving Picture Experts Group. Can achieve high
  rates of compression without a noticeable
  decrease in quality.

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Common sound formats

• .wav
• Windows WAVE format. Specifies an arbitrary
  sampling rate, number of channels, and sampling
  size. Has many compression formats

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Common sound formats

• .wma, wax, asf
• Windows Media Audio (wma) files provide quality
  comparable to a .mp3 at nearly half the file size.

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Inserting a Sound or Music File

• Display the slide you want to add the sound or
  music to.
• Choose insert/Movies and Sounds

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Inserting a Sound or Music File

• Choose sound from clip organizer
• Locate a file and click on insert
• PP puts a sound icon on the slide

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Inserting a Sound or Music File

• Sound can play automatically or when the sound
  icon is clicked on.
• If sound plays automatically the sound icon can
  be dragged off of the slide/out of view

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Inserting a Sound or Music File

• Sounds can also be found in clip art
• Select Insert Picture
• Select Clip Art
• Search for sound in file types

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Inserting a Sound or Music File

• Locate sound desired for PP
• Add sound icon to the slide
• A search was done for clapping
• A sound was selected and added to this slide

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Sound Play Settings

• Play settings can be adjusted
• Sounds can play before or after animation
• Sound can play automatically or when the mouse is
  clicked
• The sound or music can stop during any number of
  slides
• Sounds can be Looped
• The sound icon can be hide before and after it
  plays

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Sound Play Settings

• To set options select the Sound Icon
• Choose slide show/custom animation
• Click down arrow for the sound in the task pane
  and choose Effect Options to open the Play Sound
  box

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Sound Play Settings

• Set the options in the Play Sound box
• Click OK when the adjustments have been made

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GIVE IT A TRY

• Use the check list and make a PP and add sound
  

Good Luck