I want to add a clip art audio track as background music to go over two slides. The slides have powerpoint animations.
When I insert the clip audio - sometimes the audio plays but animations don't work and sometimes its the other way round, depending the Effect options I have selected.
I've seen some other posts saying that audio as background music needs to be added as Playlist. So the next question for me is how do I add a clip art as a playlist.
You could extract the inserted sound as a separate file, and then use that to create a playlist. Here's a page which contains links explaining how to get the sound out of the PowerPoint file (the process is different depending on what PPT version you have).
Once you have the sound extracted, if it in a format other than wav or mp3, you'll need to convert it. If you don't already have a tool that does this, Format Factory is a free one that a lot of people like.
Once your sound is in the correct format, you can use it to create your playlist and apply the playlist to your 2 slides.
Don't forget you can set up a playlist to loop if that works. Then you don't need to worry about the slide timing because the playlist will continue to play as long as you are on the slide.
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Hi Pam! How did you insert the audio? Is it from the PowerPoint clip art library?
Hi Jeanette - yes inserted it from PowerPoint clipart audio library.
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You could extract the inserted sound as a separate file, and then use that to create a playlist. Here's a page which contains links explaining how to get the sound out of the PowerPoint file (the process is different depending on what PPT version you have).
Once you have the sound extracted, if it in a format other than wav or mp3, you'll need to convert it. If you don't already have a tool that does this, Format Factory is a free one that a lot of people like.
Once your sound is in the correct format, you can use it to create your playlist and apply the playlist to your 2 slides.
Thanks Jeanette - I'll have a play and let you know how i get on.
Thanks very much.
Pam
Hi Pam. You can use Microsoft Clip Art audio as a playlist provided you have 7zip and Audacity. I created a screencast outlining this process:
Thanks Justin for taking the time to do that - really appreciate it. Will have a go and let you know
Pam
Super! That all works - audio needs to be edited/trimmed to fit the slide it will be playlist for.
I guess I can do that in audacity too.
Thanks again
Pam
Don't forget you can set up a playlist to loop if that works. Then you don't need to worry about the slide timing because the playlist will continue to play as long as you are on the slide.
I tried that but the playlist seems to play for its whole duration rather than slide duration
Slide duration is shorter than the acutal playlist track so I'm guessing you have to trim audio file down.
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