Flash Audio
I created a powerpoint presentation and coverted it to flash using PowerCONVERTER. I used the record narration function in powerpoint to record someone speaking about each slide. The problem is, powerpoint's audio is horrible. Everytime you change slides there is this little fuzzy noise that goes off and then on. It is really annoying. So what we did was create a seperate audio file that had the narration in it. Does anyone know how to merge the seperate narration into powerpoint? Or, if we convert it to flash without the audio, is there a way to merge the audio as background "music" so to speak, without using Abobe Flash?
Renegade posted this at 19:09 — 7th December 2006.
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Not too sure if I'm reading correctly. Do you have to use flash and powerpoint together? Why not just use flash?
If you just make the flash movie without narration, you could just make a page where when you click a button, it starts playing the flash movie and a sound file (narrative) at the same time. Just an idea.
teammatt3 posted this at 19:25 — 7th December 2006.
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What I have is a powerpoint that someone at this office made. I need to make it available on the web. To do that, I use a program called PowerCONVERTER to convert all the slides, annimations, effects, etc to flash (because I don't have adobe flash, and I don't know how to use it). The problem is, when you record the narration in powerpoint, it sounds, really, really bad, so when I use that converter to convert it to flash, the audio still sounds really bad. So what I have now is, the narration for the powerpoint that was made in a seperate program (sounds a lot better), and the slideshow in flash. I want to merge them together so they work in unison on the web. So what I'm asking is, is there a way to merge an audio clip into my flash without requiring Flash software (like Flash MX)?
I was thinking that too, but how can I make sure that the flash and audio are fully loaded, and start playing at the same time? If there is a way to do that, that would be perfect.
teammatt3 posted this at 20:16 — 8th December 2006.
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Any other ideas for something like this?
Renegade posted this at 21:58 — 9th December 2006.
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What about preloading the sound and flash file before actually displaying an option to start playing?
Megan posted this at 14:04 — 11th December 2006.
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Have you looked into Macromedia Breeze? Or is it that you really don't want to have to buy new software for this?
When I worked in Distance ed we did a lot of this sort of thing and had the same problems - even with breeze. Although you say you recoreded the audio directly in Powerpoint, is that it? Breeze can take a separate audio file and merge it.
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teammatt3 posted this at 16:13 — 11th December 2006.
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No I haven't, but I'd prefer not to have to buy more software to do these presentations.
Yes, we recorded the audio in Powerpoint directly, but it sounded like crap, so we used SoundForge to do the audio (it sounds good). But I just can't figure out a way to add the audio to the flash presentation.
I'm looking into that right now.
JeevesBond posted this at 16:47 — 11th December 2006.
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But if all you need to do is merge those files together you could use the free trial of Breeze. If that's all you need it for.
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