Office 2004 Powerpoint Narration huge!

[bkovich]

I have created a ppt which contains 5 minutes of narration for a
college class. This ppt is now over 50 MB!!!!
The sample that was provided by my professor was only 6 MB with 5
minutes of narration.
Due to the size, I am unable to post for a grade...

How do I compress the recorded narration?
I am using a iMac, Intel, 10.4.x OS, Office 2004 - I used the internal
microphone and could not find where I can downgrade the recording from
44khz. The recording is embedded in the ppt, not linked.

Please help!!!!

Thank you!
Aspiring Teacher

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Aspiring Teacher

I'm a PC user - so bear with me.

On ppt on the PC, if you save the presentation as HTML, you can get the
audio 'out' of powerpoint.

see
Extract images and sounds from PowerPoint
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00778.htm



Then you can 'downgrade' it - resample it to a smaller bitrate/quality mono
etc etc

Then you can re-insert the audio into each slide.

cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[bkovich]

On May 29, 9:46 am, "TAJ Simmons"
TAJ,

Thank you!!!

I followed your advice - extracted the sound files, deleted the
buttons that referred to them (which got my file size to 280 K,
instead of 50 MB) and then imported the files into iTunes with my
preferences set to .wav, 16 bit, 16 KHz, and mono and then created
buttons that referred to the new '.wav' files. This shrunk my file to
just over 7 MB!!!!!
Thank you! Now I can submit it to my professor.

I truly appreciate your help.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Thanks 4 the Thanks

TS