Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Week 3: My Pet Peeve Is That Mac Users Are Forgotten

As part of this week's required post, I have chosen to discuss the duct-tape and bubble gum that we Mac users need to piece together small presentations that are cross compatible with a PC, presentation software like Adobe Presenter and Camtasia (both for PC only) can perform such tasks with fewer steps. The world is not going to switch to Mac anytime soon and the Adobe folks have been dragging their feet during the development of Presenter for Mac (Beta edition). So for my downtrodden, creative Macheads, here's a quick preview of how to make a PPT video with voiceover that the whole computer world can enjoy!

1. Complete a PPT slide deck in PPT for Mac
2. Open Garageband, create a "new project", and open a "basic track".
3. Erase the default "grand piano" track.
4. In PPT, go to "slideshow" and then "record narration."
5. Select "sound input", then "external microphone", then check "link narration"
6. Both PPT and GB are now open and prepped.
7. Quickly hit "record" on GB immediately followed by "record" in PPT.
8. Verbally narrate your project & advance each slide with the keyboard's right arrow.
9. Allow PPT to run on the last slide for an extra 8-10 seconds before stopping it.
10. Send your GB track to iTunes and convert to mp3 format.
11. Save PPT with"save as..."---> "format:movie (.mov)--->"options: background soundtrack"--->select the chosen track from iTunes---> press "ok".
12. Press "save" in PPT.
13. Close PPT and GB.
14. Wait 1-2 minutes and test your work.

Hope this helps someone!
R.B.
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  1. MonicaJanuary 27, 2010 at 3:22 PM

    Thanks for the tip on the work around. I had the same frustration when producing my voice-over presentation and ended up exporting my PowerPoint in Keynote and then from Keynote into iMovie in order to edit the additional timing that Keynote adds into slide transitions. iMovie is attractive because of the number of formats it allows you to export, but I didn't think about using Garageband for the same purpose. Had I had this information, I would have tried what you suggest above. Will have to keep it in mind for next time. Thanks for the information.

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