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A usability issue with iTunes: You may think the first column, with index numbers, is the track number. It turns out that it’s just an arbitrary identifier assigned to the tracks, no matter WHAT actual
Continue readingWhen I opened a client’s Word document containing a screen capture of a video player (she was trying to show me one frame of the video), the image of the video screen was blank. This
Continue readingI found an old MidiSport 2×2 USB midi interface by M-Audio that we had previously used successfully with an older computer, running Finale. When it was hooked up to a new iBook running Panther, it
Continue readingSuccessfully incorporating video clips into powerpoint isn’t hard, but the process will go more smoothly if you consider how the presentation will be delivered before inserting the video file. This tutorial is mainly oriented toward the PC version of powerpoint, and Windows Media Player, although I may add notes on the Mac version and Quicktime soon.
Let’s go over some possible scenarios:
Scenario 1. You create and present the powerpoint presentation on your own laptop.
If the .ppt file is not going to be moved from its current position on the laptop, you only have to ensure that the video clip actually resides on your laptop, so that it will be available when you are giving the presentation.
So before inserting the video file, make sure that it is indeed on the C drive, or more simply, in whatever folder the powerpoint presentation is in, and not on a networked drive somewhere. This may seem obvious, but I’ve found that many users are not at all clear on what drives they are using.
I had forgotten all about this issue, but was reintroduced to the Dreamweaver Slowdown after installing it on a new system drive. On opening an old document, typing slows to a crawl, even when there
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Sometimes, even if you set a narration or sound file to play automatically when you first add it, it will not play until you click the speaker icon on each slide. When you look at the Custom Animation settings, it may look like it they are set correctly as Start with Previous but there is a second setting which also must be correct for this to function properly.
To fix this setting: click the speaker icon for your sound file. Select Custom Animation. Click on the downward-pointing arrow to the right of the listing for the audio file (“Media_4″ in the screenshot below”).
I put this tabbed interface together to show either isolated pieces of a single video or several separate video clips, together with captions. The way the interface is set up, you can use the captions
Continue readingYou can look this up anywhere, but I find myself looking it up often enough that I thought I’d post it here. To make an automatic redirect, simply add this to the head section of
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