Fading music in a presentation

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Mark Saunby

I am currently trying to put together a presentation
where the same piece of music is playing during a
sequence of slides.The music is longer than the sequence
however and the music finishes rather abruptly.Is there a
method of fading the music during the final slide of the
sequence so that the end is a bit gentler?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Mark
 
Mark said:
I am currently trying to put together a presentation
where the same piece of music is playing during a
sequence of slides.The music is longer than the sequence
however and the music finishes rather abruptly.Is there a
method of fading the music during the final slide of the
sequence so that the end is a bit gentler?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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You'll need to use sound editing software to fade the music, then
reinsert it into PPT. PPT generally plays the sound "as is."
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint does not have the level of audio playback control that you are
looking for for inserted sounds.

However, a very cool option in PowerPoint 97 is the Custom Soundtrack
add-in. The PowerPoint Custom Soundtrack Add-in allows you to add
electronically-generated background music to your slide shows and one of
it's options is to have music it generates end gracefully (not quite the
same as fade out). You can install this add-in from the following folder on
the Office 97 compact disc:

<drive>:\ValuPack\MusicTrk

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions as to how
PowerPoint improve it's options for controlling the playback of audio (such
as fade in/out), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) 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
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suggestions).

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Microsoft Corporation
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