Working with Multimedia

Tutorials by Jim Bertelsen.

Streaming MP3 Audio Narration in PowerPoint and Web Pages

1.Creating audio files and saving as MP3s.

PC Users: http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/tutorials/JimBertelsenMultimedia/PCsound.htm

Mac Users: http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/macsoundtutorial.html

2 . Using streaming MP3 for PowerPoint Narration:

• http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/tutorials/JimBertelsenMultimedia/PowerPoint.htm

3. Embedding streaming mp3 in a Web page

• http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/tutorials/JimBertelsenMultimedia/mp3inhtml/

4. Trouble embedding M3Us into PowerPoint

• http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/wm/TroubleWithM3Us.wmv
• http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/wm/TroubleWithM3Us-2.wmv
• http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/tutorials/JimBertelsenMultimedia/RelativePath.htm

5. Recording volume is too low

http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/wm/VolumeTroubles.wmv

6. Are some of your MP3 files just way too big? This could be the reason:

• http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/tutorials/JimBertelsenMultimedia/forbeth.htm

7. Do you have icons in your PPT that play if you click them, but don't play automatically? If you want them to play automatically, here's what you can do:

• http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/tutorials/JimBertelsenMultimedia/autoplay.htm

8. Recording MP3 audio narration on a Macintosh:

• http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/macsoundtutorial.html

Note1: the SoundRecorder software that is mentioned in the tutorial can be downloaded here This software runs on OS9.x, so if you have OSX, you'll have to restart on OS9.
Note 2: the MP3 converter can be downloaded here

Creating Narrated Screenmovies

1. With Windows Media Encoder

• http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/tutorials/JimBertelsenMultimedia/EmbedWMV/index.htm

2. With Camtasia

• http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/tutorials/JimBertelsenMultimedia/camtasia/