Power Point Sound File Size

[Jim_L]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I have put together a presentation for some relatives with about 38 photos and a background song. After trying to email the pps and being told the file was too big I reduced the size of all the prints and got the file size down to 5.4 MB. I know that is still large. Then emailed the file and the sound did not play. After reading the forum I went to preferences and raised the file size to 50,000.
Went back and added a 3:30 minute song. The file size is now 41.4MB. I just received a PPS in an email file that has 50 slides and a 3:30 second Celine Dion song,total weight 8.9 MB.
How do they keep the size of the song file from being so large. I converted an 8.3 MPEG file to a WAV file and the file size went to 47.2. When I embed the wave file in the presentation that 47.2 is added to the total weight. I know there is a way to hold the file size down in the music files because I get these PPS's all the time with total weight of under 10MB. How do they do it, especially on a MAC?????
Thanks for any advice.
Jim L

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel
I have put together a presentation for some relatives with about 38
photos and a background song. After trying to email the pps and being
told the file was too big I reduced the size of all the prints and got
the file size down to 5.4 MB. I know that is still large. Then emailed
the file and the sound did not play. After reading the forum I went to
preferences and raised the file size to 50,000.
Went back and added a 3:30 minute song. The file size is now 41.4MB. I
just received a PPS in an email file that has 50 slides and a 3:30
second Celine Dion song,total weight 8.9 MB.
How do they keep the size of the song file from being so large. I
converted an 8.3 MPEG file to a WAV file and the file size went to 47.2.
When I embed the wave file in the presentation that 47.2 is added to the
total weight. I know there is a way to hold the file size down in the
music files because I get these PPS's all the time with total weight of
under 10MB. How do they do it, especially on a MAC?????
Thanks for any advice.
Jim L

Hi,

Try using Audacity (free) to change the sample rate and other aspects of
the wav file to get the file smaller.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_mac

-Jim

 

[Jim_L]

> > Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel
> > I have put together a presentation for some relatives with about 38
> > photos and a background song. After trying to email the pps and being
> > told the file was too big I reduced the size of all the prints and got
> > the file size down to 5.4 MB. I know that is still large. Then emailed
> > the file and the sound did not play. After reading the forum I went to
> > preferences and raised the file size to 50,000.
> > Went back and added a 3:30 minute song. The file size is now 41.4MB. I
> > just received a PPS in an email file that has 50 slides and a 3:30
> > second Celine Dion song,total weight 8.9 MB.
> > How do they keep the size of the song file from being so large. I
> > converted an 8.3 MPEG file to a WAV file and the file size went to 47.2.
> > When I embed the wave file in the presentation that 47.2 is added to the
> > total weight. I know there is a way to hold the file size down in the
> > music files because I get these PPS's all the time with total weight of
> > under 10MB. How do they do it, especially on a MAC?????
> > Thanks for any advice.
> > Jim L

>
> Hi,
>
> Try using Audacity (free) to change the sample rate and other aspects of
> the wav file to get the file smaller.
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_mac
>
> -Jim
> --
> Jim Gordon
> Mac MVP
> Co-author of Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies
> http://tinyurl.com/Office-2008-for-Dummies
> Thanks for the reply Jim. I have read and read and read, trying to find some answer. There seems to be some programs for PC's to reduce file size but I didn't find one for a Mac.

Again thanks, I'll give it a try and write back.
Jim L