Welcome to "The Office Show: PowerPoint Design"

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Doug Kim — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:42:54 GMT

Hi Mona, I'm afraid I don't have any new updates for you on this. Have you tried the workarounds I desribed for PSR?

re: Welcome to "The Office Show: PowerPoint Design"

Mona07452 — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:07:42 GMT

Hi Doug

I have the same problem posted in December about music transitions working well until I tried to convert to video......then my PPT 10 presentation loses the stop points of music in the wmv video version, and all three music files are playing at once by the end! Anything new to report on this? I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed...

re: Welcome to "The Office Show: PowerPoint Design"

Doug Kim — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:42:49 GMT

Yes, we're definitely working on closed captions for these videos. This one was produced before we had that capability on this hosting platform, but future ones will definitely have them. Thanks for your feedback!

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jwyant — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:55:55 GMT

Have you considered captioning these videos? Or at least providing a transcript? They are not accessible to me. There's also a strong business case to caption them, starting with the fact they help make the videos search engine friendly.

re: Welcome to "The Office Show: PowerPoint Design"

Doug Kim — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:01:11 GMT

@PSR, Yes, I'm sorry that option didn't work for you. We are definitely working on a fix.

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PSR — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:04:43 GMT

Doug thanks I tried option one......trimmed all songs even checking back after reopening in PPT showed trimmed times.

but again once converting to video played the song through.

on to option 2....I think my presentation too large!

do you know if MS is trying to come up with a patch for this?

thanks PSR

re: Welcome to "The Office Show: PowerPoint Design"

Doug Kim — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:57:58 GMT

@PSR, you're welcome, let us know if any of those works out best. thanks!

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PSR — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:14:01 GMT

Doug

thank you so much for your suggestions I will try them!

re: Welcome to "The Office Show: PowerPoint Design"

Doug Kim — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:16:31 GMT

@PSR, OK, I've got some answers for you. This is a known problem and we're working on it, but until then here are three workarounds you can try.

1.Trim the audio track to the desired length, then use the “compress media” feature in the backstage to make sure it doesn’t play past that point

2. Remove the music tracks, export the deck as a video, then use a video editing program like Windows Live Movie Maker to add the tracks back in.

3. Export the first part of the presentation w/ song 1, then export the second part w/ song 2, etc. Then, insert those videos into PowerPoint on slides 1, 2, 3, set to play automatically, and export again.

re: Welcome to "The Office Show: PowerPoint Design"

Doug Kim — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:16:56 GMT

@PSR, hmm, haven't seen this issue crop up, but I'll check around to see if we can find out something for you.