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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / June 2007help to use audacity
Hi There Can anyone out there please help me in laymans terms on how to use audacity? I want to fade out music tracks on a Power Point presenatation and have tried to use audacity to do this without success so far. My computer knowledge is fairly basic!! Start here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com > Hi There > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > My computer knowledge is fairly basic!! Bit off topic in this forum, but here goes. Firstly have a sniff around the Audicity Tutorials/Wiki http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials Here's a bit on fading out ... http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/audacity_step05.html Basically open wav/mp3/whatever sound file in Audacity, should have 2 tracks showing in most cases (stereo). Click and Drag the mouse to select the ending you wish to fade or cut off. Then up to menu Effect -> "Fade Out". Probably only other trick is you need to Export file to save as a sound file (wav/mp3/.....) instead of audacity's native file type. Basic overview, but read the tutorials. Their forum is http://audacityteam.org/forum/ kraves. PS. Powerpoint might bring on better sound features soon. Could do with basic cutting, fade in/out, x-fade. > Hi There > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > My computer knowledge is fairly basic!! Hi Kraves Thanks for all the info I will have another try. I can get the basic stuff on the audacity screen eg 2 seperate tracks, song title and everything appears to be there that I need, when I click the play button all I get is a screeching noise, the file format of the song is in WMA format. Any other ideas? Keith > Bit off topic in this forum, but here goes. > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > > My computer knowledge is fairly basic!! There's a fair bit out there about audacity and wma. It doesn't support wma, so the file needs to be converted beforehand. Quick google of "audacity convert wma" files comes up with a few possibilities like http://nch.com.au/switch/index.html > Hi Kraves > Thanks for all the info I will have another try. [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > > > > > My computer knowledge is fairly basic!! Another quick thought. Audacity won't convert files that are protected (i.e. DRM) so some wma work others don't. If you used Windows Media Player to convert/record/rip something the daulft option is wma but you can change to mp3 before you rip. My understanding is Win media player will DRM protect rips from a commercial cd. So if you set WMPlayer to use mp3 you might stop all you worries!! kraves.
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