Posts by William Wood75

Taylor Brooks3 said:Can someone please recommend a decent program for digitizing Betamax tapes to DVD? I've messed around with Adobe and iMovie, and honestly, neither one is doing the job.

Have you given Windows Media Player a shot?

I haven't actually pulled the trigger on this yet, but I’m planning to do exactly what you're aiming for—transferring everything from Betamax to a hard drive first, then burning it to a DVD.
I've heard some good things about that software, so if anyone here has actually used it, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks!

Jesse Ortiz4 said:If you're stuck using Microsoft Office 2007, here’s the drill:

1. Insert the sound file (you can decide if it plays automatically or just when you click)
2. Go to Animations -> Custom Animations -> double-click the audio track -> then select which slide the music should run through

I assume you can take it from there—it shouldn't be rocket science. 👍

Thanks!🙂

Jesse Ortiz4 said:I'm running Office 2007 and OpenOffice 2.3 (the download is about a hundred MB)

just pick whichever one works better for you

Pick one of those two.
And seriously, why is it such a huge deal that the audio and the slideshow finish at the exact same time?
What's the harm in just setting a slide duration to 15 seconds??

I'm not losing anything! I just want the audio to stop when the slideshow ends!

Jesse Ortiz4 said:Go to the slideshow menu; both programs have a rehearse timings feature

I'm just not sure if it remembers decimals or if it rounds everything up.

It doesn't remember decimals—and by the way, "rehearse timings" was translated as "presentation timing test" in the American version of PowerPoint 2003.
...so now I finally see why anyone would bother clicking every 14.6 seconds!

I tried adding two audio files to a presentation with quite a few slides, but it totally failed—every single time I start the slideshow, both audio tracks play at once, even though I specifically set it so the second one starts after the first. Any idea what's going on?

Jesse Ortiz4 said:What you're looking for is actually pretty easy to do in Flash. Do you know how to use Flash?
You can definitely fine-tune those kinds of settings there.

I haven't messed around with that software yet. Is there a free version available online?

Jesse Ortiz4 said:Look, man, I actually know my English.
Clearly, English isn't exactly your strongest suit either.

Try digging through the help system for once.
Check out things like presentations, animations, presentation timing test, and so on.

Well, I did—but could you please explain what on earth you mean by "clicking every 14:60 seconds"?

And while we're at it, where exactly in the menu can I find the "Rehearse Timings" tool?

Jesse Ortiz4 said:Just set up a rehearsal slideshow, then just hit the spacebar every 14.6 seconds or whatever.👍

I have no idea what "rehearse" even means here. 😕 I’m running the American version of Workplace, but honestly, that term doesn't ring a bell,
and I didn't really grasp the rest of that either... what do you mean by "hit the button every 14:60 seconds"?

Scott Edwards62 said:which version of Google Slides are you running?

2003

Jesse Ortiz4 said:Just hit up the help center—there's actually a thread on this:

Time slides with a timer

You basically have to figure out the exact length of the audio file yourself and then punch those numbers in manually; the software isn't really smart enough to automatically sync the song duration for you.

So, I gave that advice a shot and it worked... sort of. What I was actually aiming for was to have the presentation duration match the audio file perfectly. From what I can tell, I have to manually set the transition timing for every single slide. Here’s my headache: if my audio track is 292 seconds long and I’ve got 20 slides, each one needs to be exactly 14.6 seconds. But since I can only set them to 14 or 15 seconds, I end up in this annoying limbo where either the music cuts out before the slides finish, or the slides wrap up while the audio is still playing.
Any brilliant ideas on how to fix this mess??

Is there a way to sync my slide duration so the presentation lasts exactly as long as a single audio file?

Kyle Bennett2 said:Just type out your text—say, "brrr5"—but stay in edit mode (don't hit Enter yet. If you already did, just double-click the cell again). Now, highlight just the number "5," head over to the Cells menu bar -> Cells... and check the box for superscript.

By the way, if you're using Calibri from Vista, it actually includes both exponents and subscripts built right in.😬

You're a lifesaver 👍 👍
thanks

Oh, great!👍 I didn't actually mean I wanted that—what I was going for was having a word or a label indexed with a number where the number sits up top as an exponent, rather than down low as a subscript. Hopefully, I’m making more sense now...🙂
For example, if I type "brrr5," I want that 5 to be a superscript!

Does anyone know how to type an exponent in xls 2003 ??

I’ve been poking around the standard ribbon and the formatting tools, but I can't find anything specifically for this. The only thing I've found is through the "Symbols" option under the "Insert" menu. I did manage to find a few things in those symbols that look like they might work as exponents, but there are only the numbers 1, 2, and 3—so what am I supposed to do if I need any other digits?
I've spent some time digging around, but I haven't figured out if there's a way to just insert a specific symbol to cover the numbers 4 through 9.

Any help would be much appreciated!