PowerPoint - help to use audacity

Asked By Keit

29-Jun-07 01:14 PM

Hi There

Can anyone out there please help me in laymans terms on how to use audacity?

I want to fade out music tracks on a Power Point presenatation and have
tried to use audacity to do this without success so far.

My computer knowledge is fairly basic!!

29-Jun-07 01:44 PM

Start here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
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29-Jun-07 09:48 PM

Bit off topic in this forum, but here goes.

Firstly have a sniff around the Audicity Tutorials/Wiki
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tutorials

Here's a bit on fading out ...
http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/audacity_step05.html

Basically open wav/mp3/whatever sound file in Audacity, should have 2 tracks
showing in most cases (stereo). Click and Drag the mouse to select the ending
you wish to fade or cut off. Then up to menu Effect -> "Fade Out".

Probably only other trick is you need to Export file to save as a sound file
(wav/mp3/.....) instead of audacity's native file type.

Basic overview, but read the tutorials.
Their forum is http://audacityteam.org/forum/

kraves.

PS. Powerpoint might bring on better sound features soon.
Could do with basic cutting, fade in/out, x-fade.

30-Jun-07 05:36 AM

Hi Kraves
Thanks for all the info I will have another try.
I can get the basic stuff on the audacity screen eg 2 seperate tracks, song
title and everything appears to be there that I need, when I click  the play
button all I get is a screeching noise, the file format of the song is in WMA
format.
Any other ideas?
Keith

30-Jun-07 07:08 PM

There's a fair bit out there about audacity and wma. It doesn't support wma,
so the file needs to be converted beforehand.
Quick google of "audacity convert wma" files comes up with a few
possibilities like
http://nch.com.au/switch/index.html

30-Jun-07 07:42 PM

Another quick thought.
Audacity won't convert files that are protected (i.e. DRM) so some wma work
others don't.

If you used Windows Media Player to convert/record/rip something the daulft
option is wma but you can change to mp3 before you rip.  My understanding is
Win media player will DRM protect rips from a commercial cd.

So if you set WMPlayer to use mp3 you might stop all you worries!!


kraves.