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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / February 2007Narration & Animation Timings
I'm attempting to record a narration to a powerpoint presentation and then save it as a QuickTime movie. The narration sounds great and the slides change when they are supposed to, however the animations within each slide seem to run on their own. The animations are set to start at "click", but some sort of internal timer is being used instead. I could only find one KB that seemed somewhat close: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188840/en-us This refers to bullet point animations, but I'm using graphics. Is it the same problem? Am I going to have to rebuild the entire presentation so that each individual animation starts on a new slide? Thanks! Hi Jerad, What version of PowerPoint are you using? Has it been updated with the latest updates? -Jim Gordon Mac MVP Quoting from "Jerad Hoff" <fubar@visi.com>, in article fubar-ECA73B.12073205022007@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net, on [DATE: > I'm attempting to record a narration to a powerpoint presentation and > then save it as a QuickTime movie. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thanks!  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Hello, thank you for the reply. I have tried this with 10.1.8 and 11.0.0. I am downloading the 11.3.3 update now and will test it out. I also tried breaking the slides down so that each new animation that I wanted to run was on it's own slide, but for some reason the the slides started to run behind the narration. I plan on doing some more testing today. Can you recommend any specific I should try? Thanks! - Jerad > Hi Jerad, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > > Thanks! Hi Jerad, If you're running 11.3.3 then at least you and I are running the same version and can try out the same things to see what happens. Try your presentation using 11.3.3 and see how it goes. If it is not doing what you expect then post back. Me and other people who visit the newsgroup can try to figure something out for you. -Jim Gordon Mac MVP Quoting from "Jerad Hoff" <fubar@visi.com>, in article fubar-AFEB89.01145007022007@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net, on [DATE: > Hello, thank you for the reply. > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >>> >>> Thanks! SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Apparently after the update, PowerPoint is actually 11.3.2. Anyway, I get the same results as before. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create new presentation with 1 blank slide 2. Add three clip art graphics 3. Create custom animation settings for each graphic, each being set to start on click & "very fast" 4. Record narration. Leave 6 to 10 second gaps between clicking to start animation for a graphic. Save timings. 5. Playback When I play back, the graphics end up appearing before I press the spacebar (which you can hear on the recording). The slideshow also ends before my recording finishes. I tried to attach a demo file with no narration for folks to try, apparently that's not allowed here. I can certainly email the file to anyone that's interested. Thanks for the help! > Hi Jerad, > [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > >>> > >>> Thanks! Hi Jerad, You're right - It's 11.3.2. I pressed a wrong key. Sorry. I followed your instructions. On my computer when I played the presentation the timings were exactly as I recorded them. I could not reproduce the problem. You might be able to figure out my email address if you think about warmer than warm being hot (hotmail). Go ahead and send an example to me. Thanks. -Jim Quoting from "Jerad Hoff" <fubar@visi.com>, in article fubar-547728.11231608022007@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net, on [DATE: > Apparently after the update, PowerPoint is actually 11.3.2. > [quoted text clipped - 79 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ After doing some more research on the internet, I found that processor power plays an important factor in recording narration. I restarted my 1.5Ghz PPC AlBook and made sure only PowerPoint was running. I was able to successfully record a narration that seemed to keep time with the transitions. It created separate narration files for each slide (which is fine). Unfortunately, when I export the presentation to a movie, everything is waaaaay out of whack. For some reason the movie lags way behind the audio. The animations are displaying extremely slowly, which throws all the timing off. I have each animation on it's own slide, but I end up 5 or 6 slides audio-wise ahead of the slide being shown in the movie. In a previous posting in this newsgroup, the following was suggested: In article <u22XIPjyFHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > -Jim I'm not worried about transitions (I'm not using any), and my animations are appearing correctly, but they're running real slow. I also checked the optimize help document, again, it doesn't address the narration becoming grossly out of sync with the presentation. If anyone has any ideas, please throw them my way. Thanks to Jim for helping me offline as well! - Jerad |
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