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Discover PowerPoint Mix for interactive online lessons

January 17, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein 10 Comments

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PowerPoint Mix is a new PowerPoint add-on by Microsoft. You use PowerPoint Mix for creating interactive online lessons. Teachers and trainers are widely using Mix. The basic process is simple: You create slides and can record audio and video. You can add quizzes. You upload the final result to the Mix website and share it […]

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Filed Under: Multimedia: Music, sound & video, Resources, Training Tagged With: lessons, Mix, SCORM, training

Easily sync lyrics with a music video in PowerPoint

July 21, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 7 Comments

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This is a guest blog post from Larry First. The bio he sent me: An “experienced” (newly retired) geek from Alabama. The instructions discuss how to sync lyrics with a music video, but you could use it to transcribe the text of a tutorial as well. When presenting a music video where the vocals (message) […]

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Filed Under: Animation & transitions, Multimedia: Music, sound & video Tagged With: sync lyrics with video, sync text

Sync animation with a video or audio

April 11, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 9 Comments

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Have you ever wanted to sync animation with a video or audio file so that the animation happens at a specified point? Starting with PowerPoint 2010, you can add bookmarks to video or audio files. You can use a bookmark to quickly go to a specific location in the file but the real fun is […]

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Filed Under: Animation & transitions, Multimedia: Music, sound & video Tagged With: animation, audio, sync, synchronize, triggers, video

Create a video zoom effect from photos in PowerPoint

March 16, 2014 by Ellen Finkelstein 4 Comments

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You’ve probably seen videos which are just a series of photos that zoom in or perhaps move a little. You can create this in MovieMaker or a similar low-end video editor but you can also do it in PowerPoint. It isn’t difficult at all, since you’ll cycle among only a couple of animation and transition […]

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Happy New Year — 2014!

December 30, 2013 by Ellen Finkelstein 2 Comments

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Filed Under: Animation & transitions, Misc. PowerPoint Tips, Multimedia: Music, sound & video Tagged With: Happy New Year 2014

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