Information Processing B

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Information Processing B

• Lecture 12 Masters, web, multimedia

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Objectives

• Using slide masters
• Action buttons for navigation paths
• Using multimedia options
• Sound, video, photographs
• Saving presentations for web - options
• Create a presentation within a presentation

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Slide Master View menu

• Slide Master controls appearance (fonts,
  placeholders, background design, bullet styles
  etc) of all slides except title slide
• Format/Add elements
• E.g. action buttons, graphics
• Customise elements of design
• Advantages efficiency, consistency

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Other masters View menu

• Title Slide edit design elements
• Notes Master edit text styles, headers and
  footers
• Handout Master control layout, headers and
  footers

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Action Buttons

• Slide Show menu
• Buttons provide navigation paths
• Select from in-built range or create custom
  buttons, add explanatory text
• Control destination through options

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Custom action buttons

• Image as button insert image, resize, then
  while selected right-mouse click and choose
  Hyperlink command
• Custom button add text

Cunning plan!
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Multimedia Overview

• Multimedia text, graphics, sound and video
• Different media types have different hardware
  software requirements
• eg sound needs sound card speakers
• Movies need a movie player, eg RealPlayer
• Multimedia can enhance education and
  entertainment
• Impact of multimedia clips lessens if overused

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Sound

• various supported audio formats in PowerPoint
• WAV file - Microsoft Windows format, digital
  recording of actual sound, files can be very
  large
• MIDI file - Musical Instrument Digital Interface,
  stores instructions to create sound, used for
  music, more compact than .wav
• Other formats include AIF (audio interchange
  file), AIF3, MP3 find out about mp3 format,
  visit http//entertainment.howstuffworks.com/mp31.
  htm

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Sound

• .wav files digitized recordings of actual sound
• tiny segment of sound is known as a sample,
  stored as a binary number
• Sampling Rate no. of samples per second

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Adding sound to presentation

• Transition effects only apply to .wav files
• Insert menu, Select Movies and Sounds command,
  select from file or gallery
• Example midi file
• Bach fugue (Size 9kb)

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Example of .wav files
http//www.dailywav.com/
Denying (45KB)
Blackadder very very very cunning plan (16 KB)
Lord of the Rings cannot see all ends (32 KB)
Supreme (38KB),   Sir Ralph Richardson from The
Time Bandits
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Example MP3 sound file Green Day's "The time of
your life" (2.4 MB)

• Custom animation select effect options and
  control playing time
• Specify when to stop play on click, after
  current slide, after specified number slides

http//www.mp3fusion.net/mp3_search/green_day_-_mp
3.html
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Video

• AVI (Audio-Visual Interleave) Microsoft Windows
  video format
• no special hardware
• limited 320 x 240 resolution, 30 frames / sec

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Video MPEG format

• MPEG (Motion Picture Expert Group)
• better quality video
• high compression rates using "lossy" compression
• stores changes between frames instead of each
  entire frame

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Movie horse gets revenge (801 kb)

• http//www.petsdoc.com/html/funpages/movies.html

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Download GIF and sound files

• Need Internet Connection
• Insert Menu Picture Command
• Clips Online button
• Make your selection
• Search site

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Examples from Microsoft Online site
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Drawing Toolbar

• Many useful options controlled from toolbar, e.g.
  Draw menu allows
• Grouping, ungrouping objects
• Ungrouping often need to ungroup object (e.g.
  Excel chart) twice - first ungroup breaks link
  with original application, second ungroup break
  object down to smallest levels
• Determine layer order (bring to front..)
• Rotate and flip objects
• AutoShapes many very useful graphics

Call out shapes especially!
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Saving as web presentation

• PPT 2003 option to save as single web page
• PPT 2002 and earlier save as web breaks file
  into many separate files
• File size may increase significantly

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Run a presentation from a presentation

• Simply hyperlink to another PPT file, e.g.
• Use of colour in presentations
• Delivery tips

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Lecture 12 Summary

• OLE enables objects from other applications
• Multimedia - sound and videos
• Prefer Excel over Microsoft Graph
• Organization Chart for hierarchies
• Drawing Toolbar manipulate create objects
• WordArt adds special text effects