How do you put sound in a PowerPoint presentation?

I would like to know how to get words and pictures to animate in PP. I want some movement in my presentation...

Being new to power point, I would have to say my greatest to desire is to learn how to import sound and activate it by scrolling over...that and how to make import moving pictures.

Be careful with darker backgrounds/templates. It might be readable on a computer screen but it might be too dark to read through a projector. Conversely, a light background with light text will wash out and be similarly unreadable.

Stay the hell away from sound effects in a serious presentation where they are not necessary. Sounds, like "whooosh," "click," and gunshots, are almost always more of a nuisance than they are useful. If you must use sound effects, do them yourself. This is of course does not imply that all sounds are bad. For example, a presentation pertaining to a particular musician would benefit in a number of ways from having a sound sample set into one of the panels.

I want to post movies w/ sound on the powerpoint presentation.....HMMMMMMM?

A tip I could give would be to be carfeul about animation. As a business student I have seen way to many powerpoint presentations where every single word or image some how flies on to the slide individually. Its way too distracting, and honestly gets kind of annoying, and definitely takes away from your presentation.

http://www.bitbetter.com/powerfaq.htm

The above link has some good PP tips...

My favorite thing to do when making a powerpoint is a to make sure that the slides are uniform. So that there arent crazy sounds or transistional fades, but rather a flowing document that looks like a retard didnt make it suckling microsofts nipple of crappyness.

I would like to know how to import mp3s or videos into powerpoint..

Is it possible to import video clips into a presentation? If so, are there limitations on the video size/length/quality?

Oh yeah, I have had problems with layering text and using actions to make them visible one at a time. Make sure you do it carefully or you will end up with a big mess of overlapping texts. The same goes for pictures too, but I don't think that is as big of a problem.

I would like to know how to use the "custom animation" option, and how to have a sound file played continuously throughout the slideshow.

The most important thing to remember when creating a Powerpoint presentation is that your audience needs to maintain interest. You've already separated yourself from the viewer by directing their attention to the Powerpoint projector. Don't feel as though it's acceptable to leave out information for the sake of condensing your presentation. If there is something important for the viewer to remember, make them understand it's significance. The viewer needs to see more than a phrase that has been put in bold, underlined and blown up to a size 48 font. You wouldn't just tell somebody the end of a story without first telling the beginning. Make sure that if it's significant, your slide expresses that.

You can have pages that can show the text fully or you can have each point or picture appear as needed

One good thing about PowerPoint is that once you get the hang of the program, it is really not to hard to use. You don't have to write ALL the text, you can say other things that aren't as significant. Don't make the slides too complex because it takes away from the main point.

I Dont really know much about Power Point having never used it, but i do have many questions about it. mainly it seems like a pretty stagnant medium from my limited experience with it, does anyone else feel this way, Why?

hello,hello i know nothing about powerpoint..how can i import a music file onto a slide? help. thanks.

Powerpoint makes it easy to import or include video, audio and pictures into your presentation projects. To do this, simply click on the 'INSERT' tab at the top of the page and select the type of media you wish to add. Then browse your harddrive and select the file you want. It's as easy as that. It has been a little while since I have used it, so once I begin the next project I will try and post some tips. Until then, keep the questions coming.

It has been a while since I last powerpointed... I forget whether it is feasible to animate or give motion to imported images, is this possible? I feel it could ad a great element of entertainment and viewer interest to the presentation as a whole.

Slide transitions to work well with your presention/work need to make sense if you are showing a picture of a peaceful meadow and the change to the next slide of a calming lake is jarring, say using a flying in from the right, then you are going make the computer less transparent, which unless you have a reason for this will not show your presention to its best advantage.

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Having never used powerpoint and only seen it used in one class, all I know about it is that it is typically used as an informational tool. I've always stayed clear of using it for my own projects because the presentations I have seen can only be described as boring. I'd love to learn how to use PP in a way that is visually pleasing and tells a story in an interesting way. The only presentation I have seen involved simply clicking on a forwarding button only to see a white page with informational text, and if you were lucky, a picture. I'm interested in how you can include sound and video. Specifically, I'd like to know how to make the presentation flow on it's own - unaided by clicking buttons.

pictures can be added to your slides.. all they have to do to be inserted is copy the picture and then paste it onto your slide. Sounds can also be used, Midi files are easy to work with and can be aquired on the web usually at no cost

OK! The purpose of our understanding power point is to go far beyond the conventional usage fo this archaic program and move into the unknown. USE sound effects and animations as you please, tasefully of course... They are only distracting when the purpose of the presentation is to inform the audience, in our case we use PP to evoke emotion in the viewers. This may have something to do with presenting text to inform (inwhich case, consider how you present your info), or may just be a bunch of moot hubbla hoo that looks cool or makes you feel all tingly. I say to make full use of the animations and sound effects already in the program, and go further by using custom animations/sounds/effects/etc. ;)

Here's a tip for looks. Don't feel restricted by the stock design templates to stylize your slide backgrounds. You can easily create a cool and unique background in Photoshop, which I personally recommend, then paste it as a picture and make it full size for the background.(for best resolution when you view the slide show at fullscreen, make the background at least 800x600 pixels) Then, to avoid doing this over and over for each slide, just duplicate the first slide you paste it on as many times as you want, by going to INSERT > DUPLICATE SLIDE. Note: in order to copy it, the slide you want to duplicate must be highlighted on the lefthand side. Good luck.

Please avoid putting everything in, as someone else pointed out. There are few things as obnoxious as someone standing in front of a group and reading word for word dozens of slides... it's painful. The slides contain pointers and directions for your talk, it is not, in itself the talk.

If you are setting up your project as a story, it's a good idea to think of it like a comic. It's easy to put in pictures, and use the bullet points like lines coming from the characters.

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