PowerPoint 2013: Shining a spotlight on video and audio

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You want to say something, but your bullet points and graphics aren’t quite cutting it? Sometimes the best way to make your point is with video or audio clips. PowerPoint 2013 has a bunch of improvements that make video and audio easier to include in your presentation. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how we’ve brought multimedia to the PowerPoint Web App, as well as how we’ve made multimedia better in PowerPoint 2013.

You asked for it, and we delivered. Many of you loved our first version of the PowerPoint Web App, but you wanted to see and hear the video and audio in your presentations. We’re happy to tell you that the PowerPoint Web App now supports multimedia playback!

If you’re using an HTML5-capable browser or have the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in installed, then you can now view your presentation’s multimedia in the PowerPoint Web App. The Web App also now supports playback of online Flash videos (e.g. YouTube) that you’ve inserted in PowerPoint 2010 or 2013. Want to see all this in action? Check it out in the embedded presentation below!

We didn’t keep the multimedia love to just the PowerPoint Web App. We also gave PowerPoint 2013 a major upgrade to its multimedia infrastructure. What does that mean for you?

Out-of-box playback support for the ubiquitous H.264 video and AAC audio codec standards Older versions of PowerPoint previously required third-party installs to play these back. Better, smoother playback performance of your high definition videos in slide show Higher quality output when we optimize or compress your videos

We’ve also made it easier to find and insert online videos with a new Insert Online Video experience. If you have your video stored on SkyDrive or Facebook, you can insert them directly from PowerPoint. If you don’t have a video already, you can search through other online videos with Bing Video Search or YouTube:

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy using video and audio in your next big presentation.

--James Yamat, Program Manager, PowerPoint Team

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Controlling Audio with Advanced Actions and Variables

May 18, 2012

In my last blog post, where I had shared a scenario-based course, I got a lot of requests from Captivate users to share the workflow to play audio on the decision screen only the first time learner visits the screen. So on popular demand, here’s a short demonstration, Enjoy!

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Let the image dance for your tunes… Image Slideshows with audio using Adobe Captivate 5.5

February 11, 2012

One of my favorite feature in Audio Editing dialog is, starting the next slide at a specific location at the audio waveform… just have to click ‘Select next slide at the cursor position’ button or simply press Ctrl+S or Cmd+S. Are you wondering what’s the fun? The fun begins when you want to play the pictures of an Image Slideshow according to the beats of an audio. What am I talking about? Watch the video below and see how the images change according to the music.

How did I achieve this?

The logic behind is simple… whenever we press Cmd+S or Ctrl+S when we are in Audio dialog the next slide starts at the cursor position. What you need to do is, play the audio, press the key whenever you feel the next slide needs to appear. Watch the demo below which explains step-by-step how to achieve this.

Hope you enjoyed this… please let me know your thoughts!

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Reducing Noise and Normalizing Audio with Adobe Audition 5.5

June 17, 2011

You have created a Full Motion Recording project with narration using Adobe Captivate. While previewing, you notice that there’s some background noise that was captured along with the audio, and some parts of the audio have peaks. You don’t want to record the entire demonstration again, as the screen capture has come out really well and you don’t want to repeat the steps.

Isn’t that a common scenario while working on eLearning courses, whether it’s a simulation with narration or audio-based courses… Don’t worry! You can resolve this issue by following some simple steps.

Let’s see how we can remove this white noise and the peaks from audio by using Noise Reduction and Normalize effects with Adobe Audition 5.5.

Please let me know if you have any questions related to this workflow by leaving a comment on this blog post.

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Add Audio and video to EPUB | InDesign CS5.5

In this episode from Adobe TV, Colin Fleming shows how simple it is to embed audio and video content in InDesign CS5.5 for export to EPUB.

Colin Fleming, EPUB, Videos

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