Insert Sound File to Slide via ITunes

[JohnNearSyracuse]

I need step by step directions, (or a referral to a site) to insert
sounds (music and or bird songs that I have on CD's which I will load
to the hard drive) into slides. I am using PPT 2004 for Apple.

I used the menu sequence Insert Sounds and Movies/from File, to attempt
to load the music that I transferred to my Itunes music library from a
CD. (I can play the music stored in my library just fine.)
Unfortunately, when I attempted to insert it into the PPT slide the
message appeared "unable to insert file" or something like that.( I
guess I was naive to think it would be that easy.)
Please help me to take music from a CD, load it to my hard drive
file,(using ITUNES?) and then insert a specific music track to a PPT
slide. I presume that music must be formatted correctly in order for
PPT to accept it .... surely Apple ITunes has that ability I hope?

I just purchased a Powerbook 15 G4, which I will use mainly for
presenting PPT presentations that include many nature pictures. Am
totally new to Mac, and would greatly appreciate some help. Adding
small segments of music (20-28 seconds) to my presentation will greatly
enhance it.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Preferences, the Importing tab, you can set the encoding format iTunes uses
when it slurps up a new CD. If you want the most reliable (if large) PPT
files, set it to WAV and let it import your CD sounds.

There are several options that control the quality (and hence the size) of the
sounds. The lower the sampling rate et al, the smaller the files. Likewise,
mono will be half the size of stereo. Take what you need but be sure you'll
need all you take. ;-)

In PowerPoint, go PowerPoint, Preferences, General tab and set the value next
to "Link sounds with file size greater than" to some jumbo number like 9999.

That way, when you insert sounds, PPT will embed them rather than linking.

Now Insert, Sounds, From File, go to wherever iTunes stashes your files
(Contro+Click the song title, choose Show Song File in iTunes and it'll point
the way)

I need step by step directions, (or a referral to a site) to insert
sounds (music and or bird songs that I have on CD's which I will load
to the hard drive) into slides. I am using PPT 2004 for Apple.

I used the menu sequence Insert Sounds and Movies/from File, to attempt
to load the music that I transferred to my Itunes music library from a
CD. (I can play the music stored in my library just fine.)
Unfortunately, when I attempted to insert it into the PPT slide the
message appeared "unable to insert file" or something like that.( I
guess I was naive to think it would be that easy.)
Please help me to take music from a CD, load it to my hard drive
file,(using ITUNES?) and then insert a specific music track to a PPT
slide. I presume that music must be formatted correctly in order for
PPT to accept it .... surely Apple ITunes has that ability I hope?

I just purchased a Powerbook 15 G4, which I will use mainly for
presenting PPT presentations that include many nature pictures. Am
totally new to Mac, and would greatly appreciate some help. Adding
small segments of music (20-28 seconds) to my presentation will greatly
enhance it.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[JohnNearSyracuse]

Steve, Thank You so much!!
I followed your clear and detailed directions and it works!! I am
thrilled.
I need one more minor step, if you possibly could help. With a certain
PPT slide,I want to play only a segment of one of the tracks I saved as
a WAV file. Inotherwords, at a particular PPT slide, I want to only
play the last 30 seconds of a 2 1/2 minute sound track stored in my
library. I looked at the animation sequences including effects, timing
etc., but could not come up with the process. Is there a way to do
that?
Thank you so much!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, Thank You so much!!
I followed your clear and detailed directions and it works!! I am
thrilled.

Super! Thanks for letting me know. It makes an old Windows grunt proud to
know his Maccent's not utterly indecipherable. ;-)

I need one more minor step, if you possibly could help. With a certain
PPT slide,I want to play only a segment of one of the tracks I saved as
a WAV file. Inotherwords, at a particular PPT slide, I want to only
play the last 30 seconds of a 2 1/2 minute sound track stored in my
library. I looked at the animation sequences including effects, timing
etc., but could not come up with the process. Is there a way to do
that?

PowerPoint doesn't give you any way to modify sounds; it just plays what you
hand it. There's a great free package called Audacity that'd let you edit the
existing sounds and save them as new files. It's available for Mac and Windows
both on sourceforge.net

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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