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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 Search box. [...]

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, I prefer [...]

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.”

Presentations for Hi-Impact Marketing

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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

There are several types of video [...]

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. (Correct me [...]

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 the same folder as the PowerPoint [...]

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. You do this by making the end of one slide (after animation) the same as the beginning of the next slide (before animation). It can [...]

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