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While experimenting with GoLive’s Quicktime track editing features, I opened up a movie, saved using Quicktime’s Export to MPEG-4 function. GoLive slowed to molasses speeds. Thinking I was dealing with a GoLive issue, I searched
Continue readingAn article on SlashDot about cardboard houses reminded me of Shigeru Ban, a Japanese architect who has designed beautiful structures using waterproofed cardboard tubes. He has developed methods for creating the tubes on site in
Continue readingIn case anyone is curious, as I was, what film caused someone to murder Theo Van Gogh, the short film “Submission” is available for viewing HERE or HERE
Continue readingWhile attempting to build a cross-browser compatible embedded Windows Media Player web interface, I noticed that Safari began to give errors on browsing to any embedded video player. After weeks of suffering through thinking it
Continue readingA 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”).
