slide show runs slow

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Andy

Can anyone please help me, i have created a powerpoint
show in powerpoint 97 on windOWS 98. I took it home and
saved it to my Toshiba Satellite lap top and tryed to run
the show but it plays so slow and all my sounds and images
are out of sync. The size of my show is around 20mb. My
laptop has windows xp running powerpoint 97 as well, so im
not sure why it runs so slow. Please does anyone know how
to solve this because i desperatly need it run smoothly on
my laptop??????
 
First, when moving a presentation to another machine it is not uncommon for
the timing to "drift". Actually it's pretty much the rule as PowerPoint
timing is all about the hardware it's ran on. With that said, you should do
a bit of house keeping and delete all temp files from your hard drive and
then run defrag. Some times it makes all the difference in the world.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
Austin,
I too am preparing a presentation w narration, and I have
experienced similar problem. Can you point me to some resources where
I can improve the situation? The sound & pic and other animations
need to be in sync in this presentation as it is an auto-run thing.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Patrick.
 
If you run the presentation through once ahead of time, it should then play
back at a fairly reliable speed ... on that particular computer.

If you really need anything but the most approximate synch between sound and
slides, you may need to look to other software to do the job. PowerPoint
just doesn't do this.

However ... it might help to record the narration in PowerPoint. If you do
that, you get individual sound clips, one per slide, so the presentation
can't go out of synch more than the amount of time you stay on one slide.
You do have to be careful to allow extra time for the visual elements to
play out. If you record on a very fast machine and play back on a slow one,
there might be problems in that dept.

Or record externally, snip the recording into individual per-slide sound
bytes (well ... megabytes, no? <g>) and assign each as the slide's
transition sound. You'd need to use WAV files for this, and the PPT file
will become large, since it will embed the WAV.
 
Steve,
Thanks for the reply. We want to record a soundtrack (w voice
& music) outside Powerpoint, and syn the powerpoint presentation with
it. There's quite a few animations within most slide and we want to
syn those with the soundtrack too. Doing narration inside powerpoint
would not allow us to have music to go along with it and we still need
to deal w the animations within slides. From what I've read on the
web and newsgroup, perfect syn in powerpoint, esp across different
machines, seems to be impossible. The last resort would be to video
capture the whole powerpoint show and use the resulting movie as
presentation. But before we do that, we want to explore all
possibilities: Do you know of any addons to powerpoint that make the
situation workable?

Patrick.
 
presentation. But before we do that, we want to explore all
possibilities: Do you know of any addons to powerpoint that make the
situation workable?
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None, I'm afraid.
 
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