Adding Sound and Animation to Your PowerPoint Multimedia Presentation

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Adding Sound and Animation to Your PowerPoint
Multimedia Presentation
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Why Animation and Sound?

• Animation can emphasize information
• Animation can keep your presentation fresh in the
  minds of the viewer
• Sound can set a mood
• Sound FX can emphasize an idea or word

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Problems

• Too much animation can make a presentation look
  cheep!
• Too much movement of text and pictures can
  confuse the viewer
• Sounds can interfere with the message of the
  presentation
• Some sound FX can be irritating

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Types of Animation

• Animation from one slide to another is called a
  transition.
• Objects, including text, can be animated during a
  slide
• Objects are animated on entry or exit or both.

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Rules for Animation

• All transitions should be the same
• All animation of text should be the same
• Animation of objects should be different than
  text
• Having an object appear without movement is still
  considered animation

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How to Animate

• Under the menu Slide Show you can choose
  pre-set animation or custom animation
• You can also right click on an object to bring up
  the custom animation option

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Animation Screen

• The animation screen shows all the objects
  (including text) on a page.
• Choose an object and select an animation. Some
  have entry and exit options.
• Pay attention to how the animation is started.
  Keep it simple with a mouse click or make it more
  complex by adding automatic timing have fun and
  experiment.

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Transitions

• From the Slide Show menu you can specify a
  transition for each or every slide.
• Transitions will either start automatically or
  require a mouse click or an arrow key

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Sound

• Sound can be applied to either an entire show, a
  slide, a serieses of slides, or an event (Sound
  FX)
• Sounds can be CD Audio, WAV files or MP3
• PowerPoint can play specific track from a CD.

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Controlling Sound

• Add sounds from the insert menu
• Control sounds from the animation screen
• Slide show sound options are controlled from the
  Slide Show menu.

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Taking Your Show With You

• Sounds (except sound FX) are separate files that
  are linked to your slide show.
• If you save your slide show, but not you CD files
  or MP3s, your show will play, but will be missing
  the sounds.

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Your Assignment

• Add animation to several objects of your slide
  show.
• Add a couple of sound effects
• BONUS, design your slide show to be self playing
  with background music