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Musical musings... Impatica Presentation of the Month:
Musical musings
1. Make it .wav. Make sure that your soundtrack is a .wav file. While Microsoft does not let you (yet) embed the much smaller mp3 files into a PowerPoint presentation, Impatica can help. When you impaticize your presentation, you can transform a large PowerPoint file with embedded .wav files into a much smaller presentation that is completely optimized for web delivery. 2. In PowerPoint, click on Slide Show Menu > Slide Transition
4. Save your presentation—then Impaticize it and upload it to your server. Please keep in mind that the individual elements of the presentation are loaded in the order that they appear in the presentation. Therefore, having a large sound file on the first slide of the presentation may delay the playback for the viewer as the entire sound will need to be received before the first slide begins to play. By simply placing your sound on the second slide, and using using the first slide to include a note to your viewers that the presentation contains sound and that they should turn on their speakers, you can keep your viewers engaged while the sound has time to stream in. You've just added a soundtrack to your online presentation! Of course, your soundtrack does not have to be music; it can be narration or any other appropriate sound file that can enhance your presentation. See the "Impatica Presentation of the Month" (below) to see this 4-step plan in action!
Impatica Presentation of the Month
PowerPoint includes a remarkable array of transition and animation effects. Some people use them to dizzying excess, while true presentation professionals use restraint to deliver powerful and persuasive online presentations. Actions speak louder than words. In this 50 second Impatica for PowerPoint presentation, Cadco uses only animation, transitions and music to promote "News At 10". You'll see only two printed words, but you'll feel the excitement and energy that effective use of sound and motion convey. See the presentation now>>> Challenge yourself! How can you use Impatica to wordlessly create a powerful call to action? If you have a "sound" presentation you'd like to feature in future editions of this newsletter, please drop us a line and point to your online Impatica presentation in an e-mail.
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What's New in
August 2006
Music can be emotionally powerful. As much as we
like to think that we are intelligent and rational human beings, we often act
more on our emotions than on reason alone. That's why adding a music soundtrack
to your online presentation can be positively persuasive—music lets you reach
out and touch someone emotionally in a way that the spoken word cannot. 
Play one sound file across multiple slides. If you have
an emotionally suitable (and legally obtained!) piece of music that complements
your message, you can easily add it as a soundtrack to your PowerPoint
presentation—as well as to your Impatica presentation! This following
4 step method lets you play one sound file across multiple PowerPoint slides.
Here's how:
3.
Select your .wav file in the Sound: box under the heading Modify
transition.
