Fade sound track on last slide in series

Greetings:

Microsoft makes a program called Photo Story that functions like a scaled
down version of PowerPoint with one very unique distinction. In Photo
Story, the sound track fades out on the last slide. This has been a very
pesky issue with PowerPoint, because, as anyone familiar with the program
knows, you cannot synchronize the audio track with transitions and
animations accross multiple slides (audio moves at a constant speed, visual
elements unfold at a variable rate according to system resources).
Therefore, it is impossible to set the sound track to fade (using sound
editing software) at just the right moment as the last slide ends.
Invariably the sound will fade too soon or too late, even when played back
on the same system that created it. If you need to distribute your show to
be played back on other systems, this becomes an impossible task.

To me, this is a huge problem, because there is nothing that can more
quickly degrade a professionally produced PowerPoint presentation than a
carefully orchestrated sound track that comes to an abrupt end on the last
slide of the series to which it is assigned. Surely, if Photo Story can
handle this problem so nicely, someone must have created a plugin that will
automatically fade the volume of the sound track on the last slide.

Any info on this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks . . . Fred

Fed,

I hear ya, mate! It is a nuisance, and PowerPoint does it poorly. There is,
as you wondered, an addin that will adjust sounds, although I haven't used
it:

Change the volume of sounds
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00331.htm

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.powerpointworkbench.com

Australia

"Fred Worthington" wrote in message
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Greetings:

Microsoft makes a program called Photo Story that functions like a scaled
down version of PowerPoint with one very unique distinction. In Photo
Story, the sound track fades out on the last slide. This has been a very
pesky issue with PowerPoint, because, as anyone familiar with the program
knows, you cannot synchronize the audio track with transitions and
animations accross multiple slides (audio moves at a constant speed,
visual
elements unfold at a variable rate according to system resources).
Therefore, it is impossible to set the sound track to fade (using sound
editing software) at just the right moment as the last slide ends.
Invariably the sound will fade too soon or too late, even when played back
on the same system that created it. If you need to distribute your show
to
be played back on other systems, this becomes an impossible task.

To me, this is a huge problem, because there is nothing that can more
quickly degrade a professionally produced PowerPoint presentation than a
carefully orchestrated sound track that comes to an abrupt end on the last
slide of the series to which it is assigned. Surely, if Photo Story can
handle this problem so nicely, someone must have created a plugin that
will
automatically fade the volume of the sound track on the last slide.

Any info on this will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks . . . Fred