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DianaH - 19 Jun 2006 08:08 GMT

I'm creating a large powerpoint presentation for a wedding ... lots of
photos. The bride and groom have some music they've chosen (mp3's). If I
chose to use the rehearsal time method to run the show, does it memorize all
settings, animations and music in the timings. Does it mean I could tell it
to run by itself. I've never used this feature before ... but it
reads/sounds like a good idea!

I'd appreciate any insights.

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Echo S - 19 Jun 2006 13:55 GMT

You don't have to rehearse timings to autorun the presentation.

Instead, go to View | Slide Sorter, select all the slides, and then go to
Slide Show | Slide Transition, select "automatically after," and type 5 in
the box. This will transition your slides automatically every 5 seconds,
which I find to be a pretty good duration for images. You can change some to
3 or 4 if you want, but in my opinion, 1 is way too fast and much more than
5 feels too slow.

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> I'm creating a large powerpoint presentation for a wedding ... lots of
> photos. The bride and groom have some music they've chosen (mp3's). If I
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> I'd appreciate any insights.

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Cowtoon - 19 Jun 2006 22:13 GMT

That would work if there wasn't music added as a variable.
I have to time the slides so that the music plays across a requisite number
of slides (yet to be determined - according to how long the music is and the
number of slides for each segment) ... then another song will plan over
another set of slides ... and so on. There's about 8 pieces of music.

Does that better explain what I'm after.

You don't have to rehearse timings to autorun the presentation.

Instead, go to View | Slide Sorter, select all the slides, and then go to
Slide Show | Slide Transition, select "automatically after," and type 5 in
the box. This will transition your slides automatically every 5 seconds,
which I find to be a pretty good duration for images. You can change some to
3 or 4 if you want, but in my opinion, 1 is way too fast and much more than
5 feels too slow.

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Michael Koerner - 19 Jun 2006 22:18 GMT

Are all the music selections MP3? If so why don't you splice them all
together into one selection using something like Audacity, and then time
your transitions to match the length of your musical selection

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Cowtoon - 19 Jun 2006 22:38 GMT

Funny you should mention that ... I do plan to modify the music with
Audacity, however, I hadn't considered splicing them all together. This'll
be the first time I worked with more than one piece of music. The are
currently all in MP3 format as far as I know ... I'll be given the last of
the music tomorrow night. Audacity is a great little piece of software for
these types of tasks. I've used it for single tunes ... for fade ins or out
and/or changed the tempo to suite ... that kind-a stuff. It's probably the
way to go.

Thanks for the tip.

Having said all of this ... I take it the rehearsals aren't the way to go as
no one has really addressed it. Can I assume it's not very reliable????

Are all the music selections MP3? If so why don't you splice them all
together into one selection using something like Audacity, and then time
your transitions to match the length of your musical selection

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| That would work if there wasn't music added as a variable.
| I have to time the slides so that the music plays across a requisite

number

| of slides (yet to be determined - according to how long the music is and

the

| number of slides for each segment) ... then another song will plan over
| another set of slides ... and so on. There's about 8 pieces of music.
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| the box. This will transition your slides automatically every 5 seconds,
| which I find to be a pretty good duration for images. You can change some

| 3 or 4 if you want, but in my opinion, 1 is way too fast and much more

than

| 5 feels too slow.

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| > settings, animations and music in the timings. Does it mean I could

tell

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Michael Koerner - 19 Jun 2006 23:53 GMT

I can't speak for others. But I have never used rehearsals as they are
associated with PowerPoint.

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| Audacity, however, I hadn't considered splicing them all together. This'll
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Echo S - 20 Jun 2006 03:50 GMT

Same principle still applies -- set the transition to automatic and set the
time on each slide.

I wouldn't use rehearse timings.

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