EMERGENCY! PPT plays inconsistently with music!

[oxmyx]

Hi - I'm working on a slide show 'gift' for the high school senior
class where i teach. I have 37 slides and set them (trying to) to a
popular song. Every time I play the show, the slides vary slightly in
the timing - sometimes too slow, sometimes too fast. Even if I make
no changes at all, if I start it again it plays differently. If I
delete a second to get a slide to run, it will then 'hang' on another
slide that is set for 1 second. It's driving me mad - and I have to
have this ready in 4 days.

I even took my mac G4 laptop to a repair place - the guy ran disk
warrior on it but that did not improve performance. I have unchecked
the auto recovery thing, stopped the spell check as I type, cleared
almost everything off my desktop. I can't find my original office for
students & teachers disk or I would try reinstalling powerpoint. I
have no other ideas to try. A friend suggested downloading open
office. If I do that, can I transfer my original ppt slides into it
without anything lost or changed? I've spent hours searching the web
for an answer. PLEASE HELP, YOU KNOWLEDGEABLE POWERPOINTERS!! THANK
YOU!!!!!

 

[TAJ Simmons]

oxmyx

powerpoint is notoriously bad at trying to get everything in sync and
keeping it consitent with music.

Chances are - when you 1st run the presentation (it gets cached) so the 2nd
and 3rd run through should be more consistent.

see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/synchronizing.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[oxmyx]

Hi, TAJ Simmons - THANK you so much for your reply. I kind of
discovered the thing runs better the 2nd and subsequent times before I
got to your answer. l tried making the photos smaller and that seems
to help. Thank you for your references. I will check out
transferring it to VHS if I have time - I'm optimistic that I will get
it to work but I probably won't get much sleep in the next 4
days. I hope the microsoft people are working on a version that
will do better on this.

Thanks again!

O

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

One way night be to save the PowerPoint presentation as a movie.

Then edit the movie in QuickTime Pro or iMovie where you can manipulate the
sound track independently.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

Hi - I'm working on a slide show 'gift' for the high school senior
class where i teach. I have 37 slides and set them (trying to) to a
popular song. Every time I play the show, the slides vary slightly in
the timing - sometimes too slow, sometimes too fast. Even if I make
no changes at all, if I start it again it plays differently. If I
delete a second to get a slide to run, it will then 'hang' on another
slide that is set for 1 second. It's driving me mad - and I have to
have this ready in 4 days.

I even took my mac G4 laptop to a repair place - the guy ran disk
warrior on it but that did not improve performance. I have unchecked
the auto recovery thing, stopped the spell check as I type, cleared
almost everything off my desktop. I can't find my original office for
students & teachers disk or I would try reinstalling powerpoint. I
have no other ideas to try. A friend suggested downloading open
office. If I do that, can I transfer my original ppt slides into it
without anything lost or changed? I've spent hours searching the web
for an answer. PLEASE HELP, YOU KNOWLEDGEABLE POWERPOINTERS!! THANK
YOU!!!!!

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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