music in powerpoint 2002

[Norma]

I am doing my first Power Point presentation for an anniversary and I need to know if I should somehow convert songs on a cd into a .wav format . Family members will want copies of the show and I would like the music to stay with the presentation. Everything sounds great now but I won't be using my computer for the presentation and I would like to burn it on to a cd. I would really appreciate any help anyone could give me.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hi Norma,

Have you ever tried to dig a hole with a garden rake? Sure, it can be done,
but it is a lot more work than it needs to be. PowerPoint might be the
garden rake in this case. It is a great tool, but not the best one for this
type of application.

I would strongly recommend that you look into Windows Movie Maker 2. It has
an audio capture feature to get music from CD's and embed them into a movie
file. These movie files can be played on almost any computer (usually
without problem) and some DVD players. The movie file keeps sound/video
sync, which is something that PowerPoint does not do well.

For this application (anniversary photo album loop), you may be better off
using PowerPoint to organize the pictures, adjust brightness, placement,
etc. Then , export the presentation slides to PNG/JPG/GIF files and import
those into WMM2.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx


Hope this helps,

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I am doing my first Power Point presentation for an anniversary and I need

to know if I should somehow convert songs on a cd into a .wav format .
Family members will want copies of the show and I would like the music to
stay with the presentation. Everything sounds great now but I won't be
using my computer for the presentation and I would like to burn it on to a
cd. I would really appreciate any help anyone could give me.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions for how to
make this easier to do in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your feedback
(in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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[Jim]

I am also doing the same type of presentatio. I would like to burn the music
along with the presentation to use on another com.
When I burn the pres it doesn't burn the music what am I doing wrong?

 

[jack]

I am doing my first Power Point presentation for an anniversary and I need to know if I should somehow convert songs on a cd into a .wav format . Family members will want copies of the show and I would like the music to stay with the presentation. Everything sounds great now but I won't be using my computer for the presentation and I would like to burn it on to a cd. I would really appreciate any help anyone could give me.