Timings in PPS presentations

[no_name]

I've sucessfully created a PPS show presentation with music and timed
animations controlling the transitions. This is a project for a
humanities class at school. I'm using PowerPoint 97.

It works just like it should, with the music playing throughout the
show, reaching the last slide just shortly before the music ends. When
the music ends the PPS show closes itself.

I copied the .pps & .wav files over to my laptop and ran the show to
verify the presentation would work when I take it to school.

It doesn't.

The timings go off. Either the slides drag, allowing the music to end
before all of the slides have been viewed, or the slides all complete
while the music is still playing.

When I open the .pps file with PowerPoint 97 on my laptop, I can verify
the timings and the animation SETTINGS are the same as I recorded; a
slide that should display for 3 seconds and then perform a slow fade
through black has the correct settings.

But it doesn't display for 3 seconds. And the fade may be slow or it
might be fast.

Anyone have any ideas why? And what can I do about it?

I need this to work, and I won't have access to the system it has to
work on until it's time to make my presentation in class.

 

[no_name]

I've sucessfully created a PPS show presentation with music and timed
animations controlling the transitions. This is a project for a
humanities class at school. I'm using PowerPoint 97.

It works just like it should, with the music playing throughout the
show, reaching the last slide just shortly before the music ends. When
the music ends the PPS show closes itself.

I copied the .pps & .wav files over to my laptop and ran the show to
verify the presentation would work when I take it to school.

It doesn't.

The timings go off. Either the slides drag, allowing the music to end
before all of the slides have been viewed, or the slides all complete
while the music is still playing.

When I open the .pps file with PowerPoint 97 on my laptop, I can verify
the timings and the animation SETTINGS are the same as I recorded; a
slide that should display for 3 seconds and then perform a slow fade
through black has the correct settings.

But it doesn't display for 3 seconds. And the fade may be slow or it
might be fast.

Anyone have any ideas why? And what can I do about it?

I need this to work, and I won't have access to the system it has to
work on until it's time to make my presentation in class.

Addendum: The laptop came with PowerPoint 2000 pre-installed as part of
MS Office. The PowerPoint 97 I installed on my desktop system is also a
component of a MS Office installation.

The PowerPoint 2000 actually shows hundreths of a second, which the
Office 97 version does not.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Unfortunately timings are not one of PowerPoint's greatest feature
regardless of the version used. The only suggestion, is to create the
presentation on the machine that it will be presented on if possible, and
also if possible run the presentation once before you present it a lot of
the stays in memory and the second time through the timings can change for
the better.

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| I've sucessfully created a PPS show presentation with music and timed
| animations controlling the transitions. This is a project for a
| humanities class at school. I'm using PowerPoint 97.
|
| It works just like it should, with the music playing throughout the
| show, reaching the last slide just shortly before the music ends. When
| the music ends the PPS show closes itself.
|
| I copied the .pps & .wav files over to my laptop and ran the show to
| verify the presentation would work when I take it to school.
|
| It doesn't.
|
| The timings go off. Either the slides drag, allowing the music to end
| before all of the slides have been viewed, or the slides all complete
| while the music is still playing.
|
| When I open the .pps file with PowerPoint 97 on my laptop, I can verify
| the timings and the animation SETTINGS are the same as I recorded; a
| slide that should display for 3 seconds and then perform a slow fade
| through black has the correct settings.
|
| But it doesn't display for 3 seconds. And the fade may be slow or it
| might be fast.
|
| Anyone have any ideas why? And what can I do about it?
|
| I need this to work, and I won't have access to the system it has to
| work on until it's time to make my presentation in class.

 

[no_name]

Unfortunately timings are not one of PowerPoint's greatest feature
regardless of the version used. The only suggestion, is to create the
presentation on the machine that it will be presented on if possible, and
also if possible run the presentation once before you present it a lot of
the stays in memory and the second time through the timings can change for
the better.

I appreciate the suggestion. I was fortunately able to find a different
solution, since I knew I wouldn't get access to the machine the
presentation has to run on.

I thought about finding some way to convert the presentation so it would
run through Windows Media Player and that led me to something about
Movie Maker. Googleing that, I discovered it was a component of SP2 for
XP, which I have installed.

Found it on the start menu & fired it up. Learning curve wasn't too steep.

I redid the presentation from scratch as a .wmv file. I had already done
the bulk of the work, converting the music into a .wav file and naming
all the images sequentially (presentation1, presentation2, ...), so all
I had to do was import them and work out the timings.

Saved as a .wmv file the timings don't change between the two machines I
can test it on, so it should work tomorrow when I have to demonstrate it
in class.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Thank you very much for getting back to us. this indeed is a good work
around.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


| Michael Koerner wrote:
| > Unfortunately timings are not one of PowerPoint's greatest feature
| > regardless of the version used. The only suggestion, is to create the
| > presentation on the machine that it will be presented on if possible,
and
| > also if possible run the presentation once before you present it a lot
of
| > the stays in memory and the second time through the timings can change
for
| > the better.
| >
|
| I appreciate the suggestion. I was fortunately able to find a different
| solution, since I knew I wouldn't get access to the machine the
| presentation has to run on.
|
| I thought about finding some way to convert the presentation so it would
| run through Windows Media Player and that led me to something about
| Movie Maker. Googleing that, I discovered it was a component of SP2 for
| XP, which I have installed.
|
| Found it on the start menu & fired it up. Learning curve wasn't too steep.
|
| I redid the presentation from scratch as a .wmv file. I had already done
| the bulk of the work, converting the music into a .wav file and naming
| all the images sequentially (presentation1, presentation2, ...), so all
| I had to do was import them and work out the timings.
|
| Saved as a .wmv file the timings don't change between the two machines I
| can test it on, so it should work tomorrow when I have to demonstrate it
| in class.