Audio and PowerPoint

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Neil

Hi all

I was wondering if anyone could help me. Im about to create a
PowerPoint Presentation for a client, with lots of voice over audio
included.

I know its going to hike up the file size with all the audio embeded,
but I dont know what problems i'll have with a lot of audio. Has
anyone encountered any problems with lots of audio in the past?

Im going to try and link the audio to the bullit point (so I imagine
i'll have to break the audio down for each point, and link to the
animation). Ive had problems in the past with video, but I was
wondering what the limit was on PowerPoint for audio. There will be a
number of inserted graphic files to, and when its finished it will
distributed on CD (and run from CD) to other computers.

Thanks in advance for your help! Hope to hear from you all soon.

Neil
 
Stick with WAV files, which can be embedded into the PPT file and which can
be played on most systems.

Go to Tools/Options and change the number in the box for "link files greater
than XXX kb" to 50000 before you begin inserting your sound files. This
causes any sound file smaller than 50MB to be embedded rather than linked.

If you use PPT's "record narration" feature, be sure to use the "link
narrations" option, and be sure the file path there is the same as the file
path for your presentation. This does two things: It gives you separate
sound files (which can be easily edited if necessary), and it creates
relative links (so that you can move the PPT file and all the sounds to a CD
and they'll still play).

If you do the "record narration" as I described above, you can ignore the
Tools/Options thing to force embedding. But you have to make sure to create
those relative links, and you have to include all the linked sound files on
the CD.

Since you're using voice, the WAV files can be quite small. Don't use "CD
quality" for the files -- instead, opt for something like 11,025khz/8-bit
mono.

Make sure to optimize your graphics.
 
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