Resource for free sounds and sound effects

The Freesound Project is a web site that collects sounds and sound effects (not music) that are available under Creative Commons licensing, and therefore free and legal for anyone to use. It’s also a community; you can register and upload your own sounds for sharing.

At the top right, enter a term in the [...]

Secrets for successfully narrating a presentation

When you add narration to a presentation, especially with slide timings, you create a self-running presentation. It’s almost a video-like effect. Such a presentation is great for sending to potential customers on a CD, posting on your website or a presentation-sharing site, or displaying at a trade show or in your company’s lobby.

Usually, [...]

Hi-impact, lo-cost marketing with presentations

I just posted a presentation on authorSTREAM. It’s called “Latest Trends in Hi-Impact Lo-Cost Marketing with Presentations.”

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Ellen Finkelstein can train you or the presenters in your organization to create high-impact, engaging, professional presentations for training, sales, business, or education. [...]

Put a YouTube video in PowerPoint

You can embed a YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation. For example, your company may have videos on YouTube that you would like to show. If you’re sure that you’ll have a live Internet connection when you present, you can use this method.

Display the YouTube movie at YouTube.com. From the URL text box, [...]

Convert PowerPoint to video (SWF – Flash movie format)

Looking to expand the reach of your presentations? When you convert a PowerPoint file to video format, you can do a lot of things with it:

Post it on your web site Post it on YouTube Burn it to a CD and send it to potential clients Post it on your blog or Facebook [...]

Convert iTunes M4P (and other) sounds to MP3

A subscriber recently asked me how to insert songs that he bought from iTunes into a PowerPoint presentation. He wanted to use them for a presentation to a Rotary Club conference.

Before I start, let me say that I’m not a lawyer. If you have questions, get legal advice. That said, here’s my understanding. [...]

Insert video in PowerPoint

How do you put video files into PowerPoint? Can you show video in a PowerPoint presentation? The answer is yes! In fact, it’s very easy.

Video files come in several formats. The formats that work well in PowerPoint are:

AVI WMV MPG (or MPEG)

Before you start, you must put the video file in [...]

Create a video effect

You think of most presentations as being made up of slides, and most presentations look like that. But you can create a presentation that looks like it’s all one slide. This technique is excellent for sales presentations.You can do this in 2 ways:

By using transitions between the slides and adding automatic timing. Narration [...]

Control movies with buttons

Adding movies to your PowerPoint slides is a great way to add a multimedia element — your CEO speaking to shareholders or employees, a product demo, or a computer tutorial.

Play, Pause, and Stop buttons give you extra control in case you want to stop to answer questions or discuss something in more [...]

Play music or narration throughout a presentation

If you just insert a sound without any other settings, you’ll find that it stops when you go to the next slide. So how do you insert music or narration that continues throughout the presentation? This is a frequently asked question.

Follow these steps:

In PowerPoint 2003, choose Insert, Movies and Sounds, then [...]