There are quite a few changes in PowerPoint 2010 from its earlier 2007 version. The changes are for better because they can bring in a whiff of fresh air (transitions between slides, for example) in the otherwise mundane presentations.
Some changes are clearly helpful as they improve the already available techniques for inserting external media files in PowerPoint presentations.
In this article the focus will be on how the editing of an external audio clip has changed from PowerPoint 2007 to the 2010 edition.
In course of the article on PowerPoint to video composing several photographs together, I’ve used both PowerPoint 2007 and the beta version of soon-to-come PowerPoint 2010.
The following image is that of embedding the audio clip in PowerPoint 2007. The options on the ribbon are not many though more changes can be made by changing the effect options of the clip in the animation pane on the right.
Editing embedded audio in PowerPoint 2007
Now let’s take a look at what PowerPoint 2010 offers for editing an embedded audio clip. In the following image you can see there are more options available on the ribbon for the audio clip.
Editing embedded audio in PowerPoint 2010
The video below explains the difference between editing an embedded audio clip in PowerPoint 2007 and that in PowerPoint 2010. If you’re a regular user of PowerPoint there is a greater chance that you’ll prefer the 2010 version at least for the ease of use in embedding audio clips.
 This article of March 12th, 2010 is authored by Partha Bhattacharya, who runs this website. Catering to the clients' video needs aside, Partha also writes guest articles for other web publications. |
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You talk about embedding an audio file into PPT 2010, but as best as I can determine, you can only link to an audio file, not embed it. This allows more flexibility with file types, but causes a problem when trying to email a presentation with audio by attaching a single file. I’ve found no way to do this.
If you know how to email a single file that contains a presentation with audio, please let me know.
You’re right Robert. A PPT presentation with embedded audio clip will necessarily need 2 files – the PPT file and the audio file.
My post is a bit misleading, I agree. However, being a web video maker, my point in this article was to emphasize use of embedded audio clip to make a PowerPoint video.
Thanks for pointing out the mistake.
Partha